Deleting Span Sessions; Specifying Filters; Guidelines To Specifying Filters - Cisco DS-C9216I-K9 Configuration Manual

Deleting SPAN Sessions

Click once on the VSAN List field, and enter the VSAN list name.
Step 3
Click Edit FC Source.
Step 4
You see the Edit FC Interface Source dialog box.
Click Create.
Step 5
You see the Create FC Interface Source dialog box.
Step 6 Click the ... button to display the list of available FC ports. Select a port and click OK.
Step 7 Click the direction (receive or transmit) you want.
Click Create to create the FC interface source, or click Close to close the Create FC Interface Source
Step 8
dialog box without creating the interface source.
Click Close. The new FC interface source is shown in the FC Interface Source dialog box list.
Step 9
Deleting SPAN Sessions
To delete a SPAN session, perform the following steps.
From the Device Manager, choose Interface > SPAN.
Step 1
You see the SPAN dialog box.
Click the Sessions tab.
Step 2
Click once to select the SPAN session you want to delete.
Step 3
Click Delete.
Step 4
The SPAN session is deleted.

Specifying Filters

You can perform VSAN-based filtering to selectively monitor network traffic on specified VSANs. You
can apply this VSAN filter to all sources in a session. Only VSANs present in the filter are spanned.
You can specify session VSAN filters which are applied to all sources in the specified session. These
filters are bidirectional and apply to all sources configured in the session.

Guidelines to Specifying Filters

The following guidelines apply to SPAN filters:
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PortChannel configurations are applied to all ports in the PortChannel.
If no filters are specified, the traffic from all active VSANs for that interface is spanned by default.
While you can specify arbitrary VSAN filters in a session, traffic can only be monitored on the port
VSAN or on allowed-active VSANs in that interface.
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