Monitor session with Fluke Optiview using the web front end.

[bruce.porter]

I would like to set up a monitor session on a 6513 between a GE port and FA. The destination port should allow the Fluke Optiview to both transmit and receive so that the www server on the Fluke is working. In Native mode, this doesn't seem to be allowed. In COS it is, with the command Set Span... inpkts enable. I am running IOS 12.1(19). Is it possible? thx

[bruce.porter]

This seems to be a tough one. I guess it's approaching time to put in a TAC to see. I will post the results. thx

[bruce.porter]

Cisco TAC responded that there was no way of doing bidirectional traffic on a destination port of a Monitor Session, when using IOS. This limits the ability of the Fluke Optiview to do discovery and remote control.

[louism]

does the fluke have a monitor port and a management port?

i also found this command in my 4507R running SUPIV engine. it looks like you can forward ingress traffic on a destination interface. most articles on the cco say you cannot. i am not sure but maybe you can try this.

monitor session 1 destination interface fastethernet x/x ingress

[bruce.porter]

Good observations. I tried to enter the command that you used on your 4507 but here is the output of the command up to a point that I hit the ol ? (note there is no "ingress" qualifier. By the way the other part of the comment that you made about a control port was very astute but I asked Fluke about that a few days ago when they were out demoing their new gigabit series 2 unit and no they don't have a seperate control port. thx:

SITSF-Central-Cat(config)#monitor session 1 destination int fa5/21 ?

, Specify another range of interfaces

- Specify a range of interfaces

[bruce.porter]

Addendum: RSPAN also does not work without VLAN Trunking Protocol. In other words you can not SPAN across routed ports as you would be able to do if the switches were all part of one (or more?) VTP domains. This makes using the new Fluke delay analysis tool impossible. This tool would have allowed me to analyze all links and hosts in a chain of events involved in, say a database access. Delays for network, authentication, database server, and database backend are all evaluated through a network centric approach involving awareness of all the protocols involved in the applications. Interesting concept but it requires RSPAN when more than one switch is involved in the chain of servers, hosts, and network links, therefor it will not work without RSPAN.