SPAN destination to mgmt port in Nexus 7k and 5K

[ScarFace P]

Hello experts, 

  Just curious to know if we can have management port as SPAN destination port, though i have gone through the Cisco docs but could not fine the answer. I did not see management port as destination port for any session. Please let me know if it can be used or not.

Regards

Pankaj

[Mark Malone · Accepted solution]

Hi no it shouldn't be used

Things You Should Know

The following list provides some additional facts about Cisco NX-OS that should be helpful when configuring the SPAN feature.

• Two active sessions are supported for all virtual device contexts (VDCs).
• 128 source interfaces can be configured per session.
• 32 source VLANs can be configured per session.
• 32 destination interfaces can be configured per session.
• Monitor sessions are disabled by default. They can be enabled with the no shut command.
• An active SPAN session uses hardware resources and should always be disabled with the shut command when monitoring is not required.
• The supervisor module management interface (mgmt0) cannot be configured as a SPAN source or destination interface.

[ScarFace P]

Thanks Mark, yes you are right mgmt interfaces can not be used as SPAN source/destination ports. Thanks again for the swift response.