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Configure traffic mirroring

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This article is one in a series of articles describing the deployment path for OT monitoring with Microsoft Defender for IoT and provides an overview of the procedures for configuring traffic mirroring in your network.

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Prerequisites

Before you configure traffic mirroring, make sure that you've decided on a traffic mirroring method. For more information, see Prepare an OT site deployment.

Traffic mirroring processes

Use one of the following procedures to configure traffic mirroring in your network:

SPAN ports:

Virtual switches:

Defender for IoT also supports traffic mirroring with TAP configurations. For more information, see Active or passive aggregation (TAP).

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