Configuring Flows

You can configure flows with rules to replicate and filter traffic between the network and tool ports.

Flow can be used to create a traffic stream between the network port and tool port, The traffic can be filtered by configuring rule(s) to permit/deny matching traffic.

Reference

Command

[no] flow <flow-name>

Description

Create/Delete Flow

Parameters

Flow-name—maximum of 10 characters

Interface

CONFIG

Example

pbnoscli# configure terminal 
pbnoscli(config)# flow flow01
pbnoscli(config-flow-flow01)# 
  !                     Exit from the current prompt
  description           Configure description for flow
  enable                Enable the flow
  end                   Exit to exec prompt
  exit                  Exit from the current prompt
  network-ports         Configure network or TAP ports
  no                    no form
  pop-vlan              Pop Vlan Tag
  push-vlan-tag         Push VLAN tag
  rule                  Configure rule
  show                  Show commands
  tool-ports            Configure network tool or analyzer ports
  top                   Exit to the configuration prompt
pbnoscli(config-flow-flow01)# exit

//to delete a flow
pbnoscli(config)# no flow flow01
pbnoscli(config)