Managing Smart Ports
Configuring Smart Ports for Other
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• Spanning Tree Port Fast — Indicates Fast Link is enabled on the port. If Fast 
Link mode is enabled for a port, the Port State is automatically placed in the 
Forwarding state when the port link is up. Fast Link optimizes the STP protocol 
convergence. STP convergence can take 30-60 seconds in large networks. 
• Spanning Tree BPDU Guard — Indicates if BPDU Guard is enabled on the 
interface.
• QoS Policy — Indicates that the default QoS policy settings are applied to the 
port. The Default policy is voice-map. 
• Macro Description— Indicates the type of device connected to the port. For VS 
cameras, this field is always 
VS Camera.
STEP 6 Select a VLAN in the 
VLAN ID 
dropdown box. 
STEP 7 Click Apply. The Server port settings are saved, and the device is updated. 
STEP 8 Click OK. The 
Smart ports Setting
 page opens.
Configuring Smart Ports for Other 
The 
Smart Port Other Page
 allows network administrators to remove any previous 
Smart Ports configuration from a port. 
You can also use the smart ports for other setting to analyze network traffic. You 
can analyze network traffic passing through ports or by using SPAN to send a 
copy of the traffic to another port on the switch or on another switch that has been 
connected to a network analyzer or other monitoring or security device. The 
following are the steps to set up port mirroring:
STEP 1 Select the destination port. Configure the port as Other
STEP 2 Connect the destination port to a computer with Wireshack network protocol 
analyzer.
STEP 3 Go to Maintenance -> Diagnostics -> SPAN (Port Monitoring). Configure the 
destination port and source port together with traffic type.
STEP 4 Monitor the source ports traffic by Wireshack.