Port Monitoring Diagnosing Switch Problems
page 32-28 OmniSwitch AOS Release 7 Network Configuration Guide June 2013
For example, to configure port monitoring session 6 on port 2/3 to capture only the first 64 bytes of the
packet, enter
-> port-monitoring 6 source 2/3 capture-type brief
To configure port monitoring session 6 on port 2/3 to capture full packet, enter
-> port-monitoring 6 source 2/3 capture-type full
Displaying Port Monitoring Status and Data
A summary of the show commands used for displaying port monitoring status and port monitoring data is
given here:
For example, to display port monitoring data, use the show port-monitoring file command as shown
below:
-> show port-monitoring file
Destination | Source | Type | Data
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
01:80:C2:00:00:00 | 00:20:DA:8F:92:C6 | BPDU | 00:26:42:42:03:00:00:00:00:00
00:20:DA:C7:2D:D6 | 08:00:20:95:F3:89 | UDP | 08:00:45:00:00:6B:FE:4A:40:00
00:20:DA:A3:89:F6 | 08:00:20:95:F3:89 | UDP | 08:00:45:00:00:6B:CF:89:40:00
00:20:DA:BF:5B:76 | 08:00:20:95:F3:89 | UDP | 08:00:45:00:00:6B:CF:85:40:00
00:20:DA:A3:89:F6 | 08:00:20:95:F3:89 | UDP | 08:00:45:00:00:6B:CF:8A:40:00
00:20:DA:BF:5B:76 | 08:00:20:95:F3:89 | UDP | 08:00:45:00:00:6B:CF:86:40:00
00:20:DA:A3:89:F6 | 08:00:20:95:F3:89 | UDP | 08:00:45:00:00:6B:CF:8B:40:00
01:80:C2:00:00:00 | 00:20:DA:8F:92:C6 | BPDU | 00:26:42:42:03:00:00:00:00:00
00:20:DA:BF:5B:76 | 08:00:20:95:F3:89 | UDP | 08:00:45:00:00:6B:CF:87:40:00
Note. For more information about the displays that result from these commands, see the OmniSwitch CLI
Reference Guide. The show port-monitoring command displays only 170 packets from the port monitor
file.
show port-monitoring status Displays port monitoring status.
show port-monitoring file Displays port monitoring data.