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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

HPE Comware packet capture


How to activate and use built-in packet capture on HPE Comware switches

In every firmware upgrade file, you probably found a feature image package:


After upgrading to the required image version, login into the switch and run the following command:

install activate feature flash:/5130ei-cmw710-packet-capture-r3208p10.bin slot 1

You should see the following output:

<HPE-5130-EI>install activate feature flash:/5130ei-cmw710-packet-capture-r3208p10.bin slot 1
Verifying the file flash:/5130ei-cmw710-packet-capture-r3208p10.bin on slot 1.....Done.
Identifying the upgrade methods....Done.
Upgrade summary according to following table:

flash:/5130ei-cmw710-packet-capture-r3208p10.bin
  Running Version             New Version        
  None                        Release 3208P10   

  Slot                        Upgrade Way       
  1                           Service Upgrade   
Upgrading software images to compatible versions. Continue? [Y/N]:y
This operation might take several minutes, please wait..................Done.

Then do install commit:

<HPE-5130-EI>install commit
This operation will take several minutes, please wait........................Done.

Check that the feature package is activated:

<HPE-5130-EI>show install active
Active packages on slot 1:
  flash:/5130ei-cmw710-boot-r3208p10.bin
  flash:/5130ei-cmw710-system-r3208p10.bin
  flash:/5130ei-cmw710-packet-capture-r3208p10.bin

Then reboot the switch:

<HPE-5130-EI>reboot
Start to check configuration with next startup configuration file, please wait.........DONE!
This command will reboot the device. Continue? [Y/N]:y

After the switch reloads, you can start using the built-in packet capture:

<HPE-5130-EI>packet-capture interface Ten-GigabitEthernet 1/0/52 ?
  autostop               Specify the autostop criteria for packet capture
  brief                  Brief information
  capture-filter         Specify a filter rule for packet capture
  capture-ring-buffer    Specify the criteria for saving captured frames to a
                         new capture file
  display-filter         Specify a filter rule for displaying captured frames
  limit-captured-frames  Specify the maximum number of captured frames
  limit-frame-size       Specify the maximum size of a frame to be captured
  raw                    Display the packet data in hexadecimal format
  verbose                Detailed information
  write                  Specify the directory for saving captured frames
  <cr>                  

<HPE-5130-EI>packet-capture interface Ten-GigabitEthernet 1/0/52