I have often wondered why manufacturers of Ethernet switches severely restrict the number of SPAN/port-monitoring sessions they allow to be configured. I can only assume that they are limited because ...

I started playing around with SCOM so I'm pretty new to it all. SCOM discovered the network devices but the port names are all screwed up so I'm thinking the out of box config doesn't have everything ...

What would cause a high number of "Deferred" packets on a Cisco Switch port. The port is set to 100 / half. Nothing else special - the port is a member of a vlan, and has spanning-tree ...