Specifications

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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch and Cisco 7600 Series Router Network Analysis Module Installation and Configuration Note
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Getting Started
This chapter describes how to configure the Catalyst 6500 series switch, Catalyst 6000 series switch, and
Cisco 7600 series router NAM and includes these sections:
• Configuring the NAM, page 3-1
• Configuring Traffic Sources for Capturing NAM Traffic, page 3-1
• Operating-System-Independent Configuration, page 3-12
Configuring the NAM
How you configure the NAM on your switch depends on whether you are using Cisco IOS software or
the Catalyst operating system software. Several NAM configuration tasks are common to both switch
operating systems.
For initial configuration of the NAM. refer to the Quick Start Guide for the Catalyst 6500 Series and
Cisco 7600 Series Network Analysis Module.
After you set up the NAM initial configuration, you can configure VLAN access control lists (VACLs),
either local or remote NetFlow Data Export (NDE), and the switched port analyzer (SPAN) to monitor
network traffic. For more information, see the “Configuring Traffic Sources for Capturing NAM Traffic”
section on page 3-1.
When you complete configuring the software-dependent attributes for the NAM, you can configure the
software-independent attributes. For more information, see the “Operating-System-Independent
Configuration” section on page 12.
Configuring Traffic Sources for Capturing NAM Traffic
The WS-SVC-NAM-1 platform provides a single destination port for SPAN sessions.
The WS-SVC-NAM-2 platform provides two possible destination ports for VACL and SPAN sessions.
The destination ports for use by the SPAN GUI are named DATA PORT 1 and DATA PORT 2 by default.
For the CLI SPAN port names, refer to Table 1-2 on page 1-4.
VACL and SPAN cannot be applied to the same port simultaneously. Table 3-1 shows the SPAN and
VACL port configurations that are supported on the NAM.