How to configure SPAN on a Nexus 55xx
Posted: April 13, 2013 Filed under: Cisco Nexus, Networking | Tags: 5k span, cisco nexus, configure span, how to configure span, Nexus, nexus span, span, switch port analzyer 4 CommentsI’ve recently needed to configure SPAN a couple times in the lab at work to troubleshoot some issues – or at least to see what I could see. It wasn’t exactly glamorous work, but somebody had to do it. Now, I had to look it up the first time because it had probably been a good year since I’d done it. The document I used is here. Well, the second time I needed to configure SPAN was shortly after the first. I was annoyed that I had to look at the same document and skip over all the paragraphs to get to the commands, then sort out the FC ports and other commands I didn’t need. So for my benefit, and perhaps yours, here’s my short and sweet version of how to configure SPAN on a Nexus 5k.