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38 CHAPTER 4: CONFIGURING THE SWITCH Figure 22 Summary Screen Monitoring Traffic The Switch allows you to monitor traffic going in and out of a particular port. For traffic monitoring to work, you need to attach a network analyzer to one port and use it to monitor the traffic of other ports in the stack. To set up traffic monitoring, you need to set an analysis port (the port that is connected to the analyzer), and a monitor port (the port that is to be monitored). Once the pair is defined, and you enable traffic monitoring, the Switch takes all the traffic going in and out of the monitor port and copies it to the analysis port. CAUTION: The analyzer port should have a higher bandwidth than the mirror port. Otherwise, the Switch may not be able to copy all traffic effectively during periods of high traffic. To set up traffic monitoring for a port: 1 Connect a network analyzer to a port. 2 Access the Web interface, and then click Traffic Mon- itoring on the menu. The Port Traffic Monitoring Screen appears. 3 On the Monitor Port menu, select the port number that you want to monitor. 4 On the Analyzer Port menu, select the port number to which you connected the network analyzer. Traffic to and from the port selected in Monitor Port will be forwarded to this port. Figure 23 Port Traffic Monitoring Screen Only one port can be selected from the Mirror Form row, which means that you can only monitor one port at any given time. 5 In Mirror Type, select the type of packet that you want to monitor. You can monitor only one type of packet at a time. Select either TX or RX from the Mirror Type drop-down menu. 6 Click Apply.