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Design Guide
RSPAN Configuration
RSPAN allows for remote traffic monitoring in the data center. Define source and destination
sessions to mirror interesting traffic to a remote VLAN captured by network analysis tools.
Configure a VLAN for RSPAN on the Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3130 and the aggregate switch
as follows:
RSPAN allows for remote traffic monitoring in the data center. Define source and destination
sessions to mirror interesting traffic to a remote VLAN captured by network analysis tools.
Configure a VLAN for RSPAN on the Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3130 and the aggregate switch
as follows:
(config)# vlan <vlanID>
(config-vlan)# name <vlan name>
(config-vlan)# remote-span
Create a source session as follows. This is the interface or VLAN that contains interesting traffic.
(config) # monitor session <session id> source vlan <VLAN IDs>
Configure the RSPAN VLAN as the target for the mirrored traffic as follows:
(config) # monitor session <ID> destination remote vlan <remote vlan
ID>
ID>
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