Monitoring Session Options (Azure)

Prefiltering, Precryption, Secure tunnel, and User-defined applications can be enabled for the Monitoring Session from the Options page.

To navigate to the Options page, follow the steps given below:

  1. Go to Traffic > Virtual > Orchestrated Flows > Select your cloud platform.
  2. Select a Monitoring Session from the list view, click Actions > Edit. The Edit Monitoring Session page appears.
  3. In the Edit Monitoring Session page, click Options. The Options page appears.

You can perform the following actions in the Monitoring Session page:

Enable Prefiltering

To enable Prefiltering, follow the steps given below:

  1. In the Monitoring Session Options page, click Mirroring tab.
  2. Enable the Mirroring toggle button.
  3. Enable the Secure Tunnel button if you wish to use Secure Tunnels. For more information about Secure Tunnel, refer to Secure Tunnels.
  4. You can select an existing Prefiltering template from the Template drop-down menu, or you can create a new template using Add Rule from the Actions menu and apply it. Refer to Create Prefiltering Policy Template for more details on how to create a new template.
  5. Click Save to apply the template to the Monitoring Session.

You can save the newly created template by using the Save as Template button.

Enable Precryption

To enable Precryption, follow the steps given below:

  1. In the Monitoring Session Options page, click Precryption tab.
  2. Enable the Precryption toggle button. Refer to Precryption™ topic for more details on Precryption.
  3. You can apply Precryption to a few selective components based on the traffic:

    Note:  If you wish to use Selective Precryption, your GigaVUE-FM and the fabric components version must be 6.8.00 or above.

    Applications:

    1. Click on the APPLICATIONS tab.
    2. Pass All Applications is enabled by default. If you wish to use selective Precryption, disable this option.
    3. Select any one of the following options for Actions:
      1. Include: Select to include the traffic from the selected applications for Precryption.
      2. Exclude: Select to exclude the traffic from the selected applications for Precryption.
    4. You can select an existing Precryption template from the Template drop-down menu, or you can create a new template and apply it. Refer to Create Precryption Template for Filtering based on Applicationsfor more detailed information on how to create a template
    5. Or you can directly enter the details as mentioned in the steps below:
      1. Click Add. The Add Application widget opens.
      2. Select csv as the Type, if you wish to add the applications using a .csv file. Click Choose File and upload the file.
      3. Select Manual as the Type, if you wish to add the applications manually. Enter the Application Name and click + icon to add more applications.
    6. Click Apply.

    L3-L4

    1. You can select an existing Precryption template from the Template drop-down menu, or you can create a new template and apply it. Refer to Rules and Notes:for more details on how to create a new template.
    2. Or you can also directly configure the rules in the Monitoring Session Options page. Refer to Create Precryption Template for Filtering based on L3-L4 details for more detailed information on how to configure the fields.

    Note:  When a single UCT-V is associate with two different Monitoring Sessions with contrasting pass and drop rule, then instead of prioritizing a single rule, GigaVUE-FM will pass all the traffic.

  4. Enable the Secure Tunnel button if you wish to use Secure Tunnels. For more information about Secure Tunnel, refer to Secure Tunnels.

Enable User Defined Applications

To enable user defined application, follow the steps given below:

  1. In the Monitoring Session Options page, click User-Defined Apps tab.
  2. Enable the User-defined Applications toggle button. Refer to User Defined Application section for more detailed information about User Defined Applications and how to configure it.

Create Threshold

To create threshold, follow the steps given below:

  1. In the Monitoring Session Options page, click Threshold tab.
  2. Refer toTraffic Health Monitoring topic for more detailed information on how to create threshold templates and apply the templates to the monitoring session.