An issue with the Tampa web servers has been reported. You would like to replicate and redirect the web traffic to a network monitoring tool outside Of the NSX-T environment to further analyze the traffic

Task 12

An issue with the Tampa web servers has been reported. You would like to replicate and redirect the web traffic to a network monitoring tool outside Of the NSX-T environment to further analyze the traffic.

You are asked to configure traffic replication to the monitoring software for your Tampa web overlay segments with bi-directional traffic using this detail:

Complete the requested configuration.

Notes: Passwords are contained in the user_readme.txt. This task is not dependent on other tasks. This task should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.

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Answer: To configure traffic replication to the monitoring software for your Tampa web overlay segments with bi-directional traffic, you need to follow these steps:

– Log in to the NSX Manager UI with admin credentials. The default URL is https://<nsx-manager-ip-address>.

– Navigate to Networking > Segments and select the Tampa web overlay segment that you want to replicate the traffic from. For example, select Web-01 segment that you created in Task 2.

– Click Port Mirroring > Set > Add Session and enter a name and an optional description for the port mirroring session. For example, enter Tampa-Web-Monitoring.

– In the Direction section, select Bi-directional as the direction from the drop-down menu. This will replicate both ingress and egress traffic from the source to the destination.

– In the Source section, click Set and select the VMs or logical ports that you want to use as the source of the traffic. For example, select Web-VM-01 and Web-VM-02 as the source VMs. Click Apply.

– In the Destination section, click Set and select Remote L3 SPAN as the destination type from the drop-down menu. This will allow you to replicate the traffic to a remote destination outside of the NSX-T environment.

– Enter the IP address of the destination device where you have installed the network monitoring software, such as 10.10.10.200.

– Select an existing service profile from the drop-down menu or create a new one by clicking New Service Profile. A service profile defines the encapsulation type and other parameters for the replicated traffic.

– Optionally, you can configure advanced settings such as TCP/IP stack, snap length, etc., for the port mirroring session.

– Click Save and then Close to create the port mirroring session.

You have successfully configured traffic replication to the monitoring software for your Tampa web overlay segments with bi-directional traffic using NSX-T Manager UI.