Configuring A Session With Rules Enabled - Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Configuration Manual

Configuring SPAN
If you want to attach a complex filter to a SPAN session, ensure that there are no filters already attached
Note
to the SPAN session.
Procedure
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3

Configuring a Session with Rules Enabled

To create a local/erspan-source unidirectional/bidirectional session, configure the following:
Procedure
Step 1
Command or Action
configure terminal
Example:
switch# configure terminal
switch(config)#
monitor session session-number [rt |
tx]
Example:
switch(config)# monitor session
3 rx
switch(config-monitor)# filter
filter-list sample-filter-list
exit
Example:
switch(config-monitor)# exit
Command or Action
configure terminal
Example:
switch# configure terminal
switch(config)#
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Purpose
Enters global configuration mode.
Enters the monitor configuration mode and specifies the
SPAN session. The optional keywords are as follows:
• rx—Specifies an ingress extended SPAN session.
• tx—Specifies an egress extended SPAN session.
• If you are attaching a filter-list to a SPAN
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session on a Cisco Nexus 7000 series
switch, then the mode extended command
should be specified within the SPAN
session.
• The direction of the filter is derived from
the SPAN session direction.
Returns to the global configuration mode.
Purpose
Enters global configuration mode.
Complex Rule-based SPAN
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