Creating a TAP service

To create a TAP service:

1. In the menu, go to the Infrastructure section.

   This opens the resource management page. By default, the Network resources tab is selected, which displays the table of controllers.

2. Click Management → Configuration menu next to the controller.

   This opens the controller configuration menu. By default, you are taken to the Controller nodes section, which displays a table of controller nodes.

3. Go to the TAP services section.

   By default, the Mirroring destinations tab is selected, which displays the table of traffic destinations.

4. Select the TAP services tab.

   A table of TAP services is displayed.

5. In the upper part of the page, click + TAP service.
6. If you want the TAP service to mirror traffic from traffic collection points to the traffic destination, select the Mirror traffic check box. When this check box is selected, a copy of the traffic is sent to the destination; when the check box is cleared, the traffic is forwarded. This check box is cleared by default.
7. In the Balancing mode drop-down list, select the balancing mode for balancing traffic across links:
   • Per-flow means the traffic streams (5-Tuple) are distributed among the links in accordance with the link cost. Default value.
   • Per-packet means the traffic packets are distributed among the links in accordance with the link cost.
   • Broadcast means the traffic packets are duplicated and transmitted simultaneously through all links to avoid loss.

   You can manually specify link cost.

8. In the Mirroring destination drop-down list, select the created traffic destination.
9. In the Source point type drop-down list, select the traffic collection point type:
   • Service interface means individual service interfaces are used as traffic collection points.
   • Transport service means service interfaces that are added to a transport service are used as traffic collection points.
10. If in the Source point type drop-down list, you selected Transport service, follow these steps:
    1. In the Type drop-down list, select the type of the transport service:
       • P2P
       • IP multicast
       • L3 VPN
       • P2M
       • M2M
    2. In the Transport service drop-down list, select the transport service.
11. In the Source points drop-down list, select the created service interface that you want to use as a traffic collection point.

    The traffic collection point is added and displayed in the lower part of the window. You can add multiple traffic collection points or delete a traffic collection point. To delete a traffic collection point, click Delete next to it.

12. Click Next and select the created traffic classification rules for traffic collection points.
13. Click Create.

The TAP service is created and displayed in the table.