Description

Port mirror analyzer for egress traffic.

Symptoms

VLAN option is available for ingress traffic on analyzers.

 

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user@switch# set forwarding-options analyzer Test input ingress ?

Possible completions:

+ apply-groups     Groups from which to inherit configuration data

+ apply-groups-except Don't inherit configuration data from these groups

> interface      Port to monitor incoming traffic

> routing-instance   Routing instances

> vlan         VLAN to monitor incoming traffic

 

 

But is not available for egress traffic.

 

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user@switch# set forwarding-options analyzer Test input egress ?

Possible completions:

+ apply-groups     Groups from which to inherit configuration data

+ apply-groups-except Don't inherit configuration data from these groups

> interface      Port to monitor outgoing traffic

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Solution

Refer to Port Mirroring and Analyzers under Constraints and Limitations

 

  • Egress VLAN mirroring is not supported.

 

For egress traffic use interfaces instead of VLANs.

 

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user@switch# set forwarding-options analyzer Test input egress interface ?
Possible completions:
  <name>               Name of logical interface
  all                  All interfaces

 

Modification History

2025-11-27 : Article Created