Switch Port Analyzer

Device>Configure>Switch Port Analyzer

You can use switch port analyzer information to gather statistics on traffic between two ports or a VLAN and a port.

Note: This Switch Port Analyzer window displays the following information for the previous Catalyst 5000 release, Version 3.1:

Source Card (monitorSourceModule)

Index number of the module on which the port to be monitored is located. Possible values are 1 through 16; the value 0 indicates that the monitor source port is a source VLAN number. This field is displayed only if you deselected VLAN and are configuring a switch port analyzer to monitor traffic between two ports.

Source Port (monitorSourcePort)

Number of the port to be monitored within a module. Possible values are 0 to 1024. This field is displayed only if you deselected VLAN and are configuring a switch port analyzer to monitor traffic between two ports.

Source VLAN (monitorSourceVlan)

Number of the VLAN to be monitored. This field is displayed only if you clicked on the button to the left of the Source Card field and are configuring a switch port analyzer to monitor traffic between a port and a VLAN. Possible values are 0 to 1024. This field does not apply to switch port analyzers configured on Token Ring ports.

Destination Card (monitorDestinationModule)

Number of the module on which the port that will be monitoring is located.

Destination Port (monitorDestinationPort)

Number of the port that will be monitoring the Source Port or Source VLAN.

Direction (monitorDirection)

Type of packets to be monitored at the source port. Possible values are transmit, receive, and transmit and receive.

Monitor (monitorEnable)

Whether the port is being monitored (enabled) or not (disabled).

Click Apply to make your changes take effect, or click Cancel to close the dialog box without making any changes. Click Print to print the contents of the dialog box.