What is remote SPAN VLAN?

The remote span is to send traffic added to a vlan, first you must to create the remote span, it can be any vlan but with the following config: Source Switch. vlan 100. remote-span. the remote vlan must be created on source an destination swtiches, then you can create the monitor session.

What is span in Nexus?

The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch supports the switched port analyzer (SPAN) feature, which allows an administrator to analyze all traffic between ports by nonintrusively directing the SPAN session traffic to a SPAN destination port that has an external analyzer attached to it.

What is the difference between Span and Rspan?

You can choose if you want to forward transmitted, received or both directions to the destination interface. When you use a destination interface on the same switch as your switch we call it SPAN, when the destination is a remote interface on another switch we call it RSPAN (Remote SPAN).

Which three port types can be used as source interface in a span session?

Beginning with Cisco NX-OS Release 5.0(2)N1(1), Port Channel and SAN Port Channel interfaces can be configured as ingress or egress source ports.

What is a SPAN port used for?

A SPAN port (sometimes called a mirror port) is a software feature built into a switch or router that creates a copy of selected packets passing through the device and sends them to a designated SPAN port. Using software, the administrator can easily configure or change what data is to be monitored.

What is SPAN mode?

The SPAN mode is a unique mode for a TAP that takes the SPAN or mirrored output from a network switch or router into the A port and can replicate all the traffic it receives and send it out ports B, and/or C and/or D of the TAP.

How do you end a span session?

To close down a SPAN session simply issue the no monitor session # command.

How does span port work?

What is the benefit of implementing SPAN?

It operates like SPAN except it gives you the advantage of 100% visibility, no dropped packets and no delay. Another way of increasing SPAN ports is to get a dedicated switch to send the SPAN traffic to; this dedicated switch will then give you the option of creating two more SPAN ports from the single SPAN source.