Port Monitoring On E-Series; E-Series Terascale - Dell Force10 S4810P Configuration Manual

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The C-Series and S-Series may only have four destination ports per port-pipe. There is no limitation on

the total number of monitoring sessions.

the total number of sessions is derived by consuming a unique destination port in each session, in each

Table 36-1. Maximum Number of Monitoring Sessions per System

Note: On the C-Series and S-Series, there is no limit to the number of monitoring sessions per system,

provided that there are only 4 destination ports per port-pipe. If each monitoring session has a unique

destination port, then the maximum number of session is 4 per port-pipe.

Port Monitoring on E-Series

Both the E-Series TeraScale and E-Series ExaScale support the following.

FTOS supports one destination (MG) port per monitoring session. The same destination port (MG) can

be used in another monitoring session.

One destination (MG) port can monitor up to 28 source (MD) ports.

A port cannot be defined as both a source (MD) and a destination (MG) port

Message 1 Cannot define source (MD) and destination (MG) on same port

% Error: MD port is already being monitored.

The E-Series TeraScale system supports 1 monitoring session per port-pipe. E-Series TeraScale supports a

maximum of 28 port pipes.

Port Monitoring

lists the maximum number of monitoring sessions per system. For the C-Series and S-Series,

Maximum Sessions

E1200/E1200i (TeraScale)

E1200i (ExaScale)

E600/E600i (TeraScale)

E600i (ExaScale)

Maximum Sessions