Patent ID: 11936726
Assignee: PENSANDO SYSTEMS INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stored computer readable instructions, which when executed by one or more processors implements a method for implementing traffic mirroring for network telemetry, the method comprising:
identifying network traffic at a network appliance that is to be subjected to traffic mirroring for network telemetry; and
selecting from available options of:
transmitting enhanced mirrored network traffic from the network appliance to a collector, wherein the enhanced mirrored network traffic is generated at the network appliance by at least one of compressing and encrypting the network traffic; and
transmitting mirrored network traffic from the network appliance to the collector without compressing or encrypting the network traffic;
wherein the enhanced mirrored network traffic is generated to include a header field that indicates whether mirrored network traffic is compressed;
wherein the header field is in a reserved field of an Encapsulated Remote Switch Port Analyzer (ERSPAN) header.