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Appliance Placement

The Multi-Port Monitor appliance requires connectivity to a SPAN or mirror port on each network switch that handles the traffic you want to monitor. Connectivity typically occurs at the access layer.

The appliance must be able to see as much of the relevant network traffic as possible. Consider the following questions:

• Which applications do you want to monitor?
• Which servers host these applications?
• To which switches are these servers connected?
• From which subnets do users access the monitored applications?

If your network or traffic volume is exceptionally large, you can purchase an additional appliance to balance the processing load.