Reference Guide

194 | Port Monitoring
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description
Enter a description of this monitoring session.
Syntax
description {description}
To remove the description, use the no description {description} command.
Parameters
Defaults
none
Command Modes
MONITOR SESSION (conf-mon-sess-session-ID)
Command
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Commands
monitor session
Create a session for monitoring traffic with port monitoring.
Syntax
monitor session session-ID
To delete a session, use the no monitor session session-ID command.
To delete all monitor sessions, use the no monitor session all command.
Parameters
Defaults
none
Message 1 Assign a Monitored Port to More than One Monitoring Port
FTOS(conf)#mon ses 1
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-1)#source tengig 0/0 destination tengig 0/60 direction both
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-1)#do show mon ses
SessionID Source Destination Direction Mode Type
--------- ------ ----------- --------- ---- ----
1 TenGig 0/0 TenGig 0/60 both interface
Port-based
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-1)#mon ses 2
FTOS(conf-mon-sess-2)#source tengig 0/0 destination tengig 0/61 direction both
% Error: MD port is already being monitored.
Note: There is no limit to the number of monitoring sessions per system, provided that there
are only four destination ports per port-pipe. If each monitoring session has a unique
destination port, the maximum number of session is four per port-pipe.
description
Enter a description regarding this session(80 characters maximum).
Version 8.3.17.0 Supported on M I/O Aggregator
monitor session Enables a monitoring session.
session-ID
Enter a session identification number.
Range: 0 to 65535