Cisco Systems NAM, 5 manual Column Description

Chapter 2 Setting Up The NAM Traffic Analyzer

Traffic

Table 2-3, Active SPAN Sessions Dialog, describes the fields on the SPAN Sessions screen.

Table 2-3	Active SPAN Sessions Dialog
Column		Description
Session ID		Monitor session ID of the SPAN.
		Note For switches running Cisco IOS software only.
Type		Type of SPAN source
Source		Source of the SPAN session.
		When creating a SPAN session, you can select all ports regardless of their state.
		See Table 2-4, Possible SPAN States for a description of the possible SPAN
		states.
		Note For switches running Cisco IOS software only.
Dest. Port		Destination port of the SPAN session.
Direction		Direction of the SPAN traffic.
Status		Status of the SPAN session:
			Active—Traffic at the SPAN source is being copied to the SPAN destination
			Inactive—Traffic at the SPAN source will not be copied to the SPAN
			destination
			Unknown—A mixture of both active and inactive status
Create		Create a SPAN session.
Save		Saves the current active SPAN session in the running-configuration to the
		startup-configuration for switches running Cisco IOS software only.
Add Dest. Port 1		Add NAM Port 1 to the selected SPAN session as a SPAN destination. This
		button is labeled Add Dest. Port on the WS-SVC-NAM-1.
		Note Does not apply to the NAM appliances.
Add Dest. Port 2		Add NAM Port 2 to the selected SPAN session as a SPAN destination. This
		option is not available on the WS-SVC-NAM-1.
		Note Does not apply to the NAM appliances.
Edit		Edit the selected SPAN session.
Delete		Delete the selected SPAN session.
Refresh		Click to update the SPAN session information.

Note IOS supports only two SPAN sessions, but each SPAN session can have more than one destination. The Add Dest. Port 1 and Add Dest. Port 2 buttons enable you to make the NAM dataport an additional destination to an existing local SPAN session.

User Guide for the Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM) Traffic Analyzer, 5.0

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