Probe: stp#

Monitors for STP (spanning tree protocol) packets.

Inspected Packets#

This probe looks for packets with one of the following characteristics:

• Ethernet destination to IEEE Std 802.1Q STP multicast address
• Ethernet destination to PVST / VSTP multicast address
  • PVST (Per-VLAN-Spanning-Tree by Cisco Systems, Inc.) packets
  • VSTP (VLAN-Spanning-Tree-Protocol by Juniper Networks, Inc.) packets

Configuration#

probes:
  stp:
    # enable this probe
    enable: true

See also: schema description

Events#

See Also#

• STP Standards
• IXP-Watch STP