White Papers

Command Modes MONITOR SESSION (conf-mon-sess-session-ID)
Supported Modes Full—Switch
Command
History
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the FN IOM.
9.4(0.0) Added support for the RPM/ERPM.
9.3(0.0) Introduced on the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module platform.
8.1.1.0 Introduced on the E-Series ExaScale.
7.4.1.0 Introduced on the E-Series.
Usage
Information
To monitor traffic with particular flows the interface, appropriate ACLs has be applied in ingress direction.
Flow- based is not supported in the tx direction. Even though we can configure it in both the direction,
only rx will work.
The flow- based enable command has to be applied as a monitor session with some configuration
which is already present in it, other wise flow- based will not take effect.
Related
Commands
monitor session – enables a monitoring session.
rate-limit
Configure the rate-limit to limit the mirrored packets.
Syntax
rate-limit limit
To remove the limit, use the no rate-limit limit command.
Parameters
limit Enter the rate-limit value. The range is from 0 to 40000 Megabits per second.
Defaults 60
Command Modes CONFIGURATION
Supported Modes Full—Switch
Command
History
This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, refer to the relevant Dell
Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.
The following is a list of the Dell Networking OS version history for this command.
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the FN IOM.
9.8(0.0) Introduced on the MXL 10/40GbE Switch IO Module.
Related
Commands
monitor session — enables a monitoring session.
show monitor session — displays the monitor session.
monitor session
Create a session for monitoring traffic with port monitoring.
Syntax
monitor session session-ID (type { rpm | erpm }) [drop]
To delete a session, use the no monitor session session-ID command.
To delete all monitor sessions, use the no monitor session all command.
918 Port Monitoring