Span port configuration

Guy I have this scenario.

I want to monitor traffic from specific phones in different locations on the network. I created a vlan and placed the phones in this vlans (vlan 77).

The destination port for the traffic is four ports on an access switch.

I removed the phones vlan from pruning and can see it where the phones are plugged which is 5 access switches.

Now my question is this. What is the most efficient way I can have this vlans spanned to the ports on one of the access switches from the other access switches.

This is what I have done so far;

On the switch with the destination ports I have this configured;

monitor session 5 source vlan 77
monitor session 5 destination interface Fa1/0/34 , Fa1/0/36 , Fa1/0/40 , Fa1/0/42

on the remote switchesb I want to go configure;

monitor session 5 source vlan 77
monitor session 5 destination remote vlan 111 (Vlan 111 is where the destination ports are in)

Is this what I need to get this done or can I simply use the second commands only or am I wrong entirely?

The other thing I was thinking is go to my distribution switches and configures this

monitor session 5 source vlan 77
monitor session 5 destination remote vlan 111

(since this location is my root bridge for both vlans)

Thank you for the input.

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Received on Wed Oct 28 2009 - 21:13:37 ART