Cisco Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Network Analysis Module (NAM-NX1) Installation Guide

You must configure the switch to communicate with the NAM and then set the configuration settings on 
the NAM. Perform the following tasks in the order given:

To place NAM in service, configure NAM using the supervisor module. This task includes 
configuring the VLAN management port and creating a SPAN session from the switch to the NAM. 
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Set up the NAM network configuration. See 

This section includes the following example configurations required on the Cisco switch:

This section describes the steps to follow in order to assign the NAM to a virtual device context (VDC) 
from the switch. The steps include:

Assign the NAM Ethernet interfaces to a VDC.

Create a VLAN if one does not exist.

Assign access to the VLAN for the NAM management port.

Once you complete these steps, continue to the next section to continue setting up a SPAN session to 
direct traffic to NAM. See 

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This example shows how to configure a VLAN for NAM management traffic and how to assign that 
VLAN to the NAM management port. All commands must be executed in the VDC to which NAM 
belongs.

To assign the NAM to a virtual device context (VDC) from the switch:

Verify that NAM is active:

switch# show service nam summary

Service          Service

Name             Type        Interface     Module    State     Version

---------------- ----------- ------------- --------- --------- ----------------

NAM7             NAM         Po4096,Po4095 7         active    6.0

If you use the default VDC configuration, the NAM interfaces will be allocated to the default VDC 
automatically. 

To verify the configuration, use the command show run vdc:

N7K-8(config-monitor)# show run vdc

!Command: show running-config vdc

!Time: Wed May 29 18:47:17 2013

version 6.2(2)

no system admin-vdc

vdc N7K-8 id 1

limit-resource module-type m1 m1xl m2xl f2e