A media company must capture the frames leaving one blade vNIC and open them in an analyzer. Intersight already lists that server as healthy, with no advisory. Which UCS Manager feature produces the frame copy?
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Short Explanation
You want the envelope, not a note that the mailbox is fine. A traffic monitoring session copies frames from the vNIC to a destination port where an analyzer can read them. An advisory is a health notice, and a healthy server still needs that copy when you are decoding a flow.
Full Explanation
UCS Manager traffic monitoring is the fabric interconnect's SPAN. You pick a source such as a vNIC and a destination port, and the fabric interconnect sends a copy of those frames to the analyzer. That is the record the media company can open. A logical configuration export is XML of profiles, pools, and policies. It contains no packet payload. A chassis power policy decides how power supplies back each other up. It does not mirror traffic. An Intersight advisory matches a known notice to claimed hardware or firmware. A clear advisory list means there is no published issue to read, and it still would not contain this vNIC's frames. Caveat: the destination has to be a port that monitoring can use, and the session is local to that fabric interconnect, so a capture on fabric A does not show traffic that only traversed fabric B. Operational check: start the session, generate traffic from the blade, and confirm the analyzer shows frames with that vNIC's addresses. Name the vNIC as the source when the flow you care about is one blade, or the capture fills up with every other server on that fabric interconnect.