Create, modify, or delete a traffic mirror session - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

Create, modify, or delete a traffic mirror session

A traffic mirror session establishes a relationship between a traffic mirror source and a traffic mirror target. For more information, see Understand traffic mirror session concepts.

You can create a traffic mirror session only if you are the owner of the network interface or the subnet for the traffic mirror source.

To create, modify, or delete a traffic mirror session using the console

  1. Open the Amazon VPC console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/vpc/.

  2. In the Region selector, choose the AWS Region that you used when you created the VPCs.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Traffic Mirroring, Mirror sessions.

  4. Select the traffic mirror session, and then choose Actions, Delete.

  5. When prompted for confirmation, enter delete, and then choose Delete.

  6. To modify a session, select the radio button for the traffic mirror session.

  7. Choose Actions, Modify session.

  8. To create a session, choose Create traffic mirror session.

  9. (Optional) For Name tag, enter a name for the traffic mirror session.

  10. (Optional) For Description, enter a description for the traffic mirror session.

  11. For Mirror source, choose the network interface of the mirror source.

  12. For Mirror target, choose an existing traffic mirror target or choose Create target to create one. For more information, see Create or delete a traffic mirror target.

    If the mirror target is owned by another account and shared with you, you must first accept the resource share.

  13. For Additional settings, do the following:

    1. For Session number, enter the session number. The valid values are 1 to 32,766, where 1 is the highest priority. Sessions are evaluated based on the priority indicated by this session number.

    2. (Optional) For VNI, enter the VXLAN ID to use for the traffic mirror session. For more information about the VXLAN protocol, see RFC 7348.

      If you do not enter a value, we assign a random number.

    3. (Optional) For Packet Length, enter the number of bytes in each packet to mirror.

      To mirror the entire packet, do not enter a value. To mirror only a portion of each packet, set this value to the number of bytes to mirror. For example, if you set this value to 100, the first 100 bytes after the VXLAN header that meet the filter criteria are copied to the target.

    4. For Filter, choose an existing traffic mirror filter. Alternatively, choose Create filter. For more information, see Step 2: Create the traffic mirror filter.

  14. (Optional) For each tag to add, choose Add new tag and enter the tag key and tag value.

  15. If you're modifying a session, choose Modify. If you're creating a session, choose Create.

To create a traffic mirror session using the AWS CLI

Use the create-traffic-mirror-session command.