McAfee M3050 Product Guide - Page 29

Attaching Cables to the Sensor Connect the cables for SPAN or hub mode 4 Task 1 Plug the cable appropriate for use with your Gigabit Ethernet into one of the Monitoring ports, for example, 1A. 2 Plug another cable into the peer of the port used in Step 1. 3 Connect the other end of each cable to the tap. 4 Connect the network devices that you want to monitor to the tap. Connect the cables for SPAN or hub mode For the Sensor, monitoring in SPAN or hub mode occurs in in-line fail-open mode. When you monitor in SPAN or hub mode, you use only single ports. To connect an Sensor to a SPAN port or hub, plug an LC fiber-optic or 45 cable into one of the modules and connect the other end of the cable to the SPAN port or the hub. Cable the fail-over interconnection ports Fail-over requires connecting two identical M-3050/M-4050 Sensors running on the same software version using an interconnection cable or cables. Gigabit ports 2A is the interconnection port on the M-3050/M-4050. A failover cable is the only additional hardware required to support fail-over communication between two M-3050/M-4050 Sensors. McAfee® Network Security Platform M-3050/M-4050 Sensor Product Guide 29