Virtual Interface Groups Tab
Clicking Administration > General Traffic Settings: Capture Jobs/Interfaces and selecting the Virtual Interface Groups tab provides access to these controls:
◼ Group by – This specifies the mode that AppResponse 11 uses to process traffic, either by groups of monitoring interfaces or by groups of VLANs. These modes are mutually exclusive; monitoring interfaces and VLANs cannot be mixed in the same group, and changing the mode from one to the other will delete all existing groups associated with the first mode.
◼ Monitoring Interfaces – Group by monitoring interface name. This corresponds to the monitoring interface groups (MIfGs) supported prior to Version 11.5.0, and MIfGs created before Version 11.5.0 will be preserved in the process of upgrading to Version 11.5.0.
◼ VLAN Tags – Group by VLAN tag. Optionally, VLANs can be discovered automatically to create VLAN-based VIFGs; select the Enable Autodiscovery checkbox to do this.
◼ Enable Virtual Interface Group Aggregation – This controls the collection and display of application stream analysis (ASA) metric data for VIFGs, accessible via the Navigator. This feature must be enabled in order to see data in VIFG Insights and VIFG Navigator views.
◼ Enable Autodiscovery – Autodiscovery is disabled by default. If you enable this option, any VLANs visible to the AppResponse 11 system will be added to the list of VIFGs as VLAN-based VIFGs. When autodiscovery is on, every time a new VLAN tag is seen in the network, a new VIFG will be created for it automatically, using default values.
Autodiscovery Defaults:
Enable Deduplication – Packet deduplication is VIFG-aware and can be enabled/disabled on a per VIFG basis.
Filter: BPF | Steelfilter – Select an option and type the filter definition, if you want to use one to process traffic more selectively.
Link to Flow Export configuration
Apply | Revert buttons – Click one to execute the latest VIFG changes, or to return to the last saved VIFG configuration.
Add – Click Add to display the New Virtual Interface Group dialog and define an individual VIFG manually.
The VIFG table displays the following properties for each known VIFG:
◼ Name
◼ Description
◼ Enabled [toggle]
◼ VLAN IDs
◼ Filter
◼ Deduplication
◼ Capture Job
◼ Received Bytes
◼ Received Packets
◼ Duplicated Packets