Quick Installation Guide
Single Appliance
Version 8.1
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2. Set up your Switch
A. Switch Connection Options
The Appliance was designed to seamlessly integrate with a wide variety of network
environments. To successfully integrate the Appliance into your network, verify that
your switch is set up to monitor required traffic.
Several options are available for connecting the Appliance to your switch.
1 Standard Deployment (Separate
Management, Monitor and
Response Interfaces)
The recommended deployment uses three
separate ports. These ports are described in
Appliance Interface Connections
2 Passive Inline Tap
Instead of connecting to the switch monitor port,
the Appliance can use a passive inline tap.
A passive inline tap requires two monitor ports
(one for upstream traffic and one for downstream
traffic), except in the case of a recombination tap,
which combines the two duplex streams into a
single port. Note that if the traffic on the tapped
port is 802.1Q VLAN tagged, then the response
port must also be 802.1Q VLAN tagged.
3 Active (Injection-Capable)
Inline Tap
The Appliance can use an active inline tap. If the
tap is injection capable, the Appliance combines
the monitor and response ports so that there is
no need to configure a separate response port on
the switch. This option can be used regardless of
the type of upstream or downstream switch
configuration.
4 IP Layer Response (for Layer-3 Switch Installations)
The Appliance can use its own management interface to respond to traffic. Although
this option can be used with any monitored traffic, it is recommended only in
situations where the Appliance monitors ports that are not part of any VLAN and so
cannot respond to monitored traffic using any other switch port. This is typical when
