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Tap as a Service
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Tap-as-a-Service (TaaS) is an extension to the OpenStack network service (Neutron).
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It provides remote port mirroring capability for tenant virtual networks.
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Port mirroring involves sending a copy of packets entering and/or leaving one
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port to another port, which is usually different from the original destinations
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of the packets being mirrored.
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This service has been primarily designed to help tenants (or the cloud administrator)
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debug complex virtual networks and gain visibility into their VMs, by monitoring the
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network traffic associated with them. TaaS honors tenant boundaries and its mirror
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sessions are capable of spanning across multiple compute and network nodes. It serves
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as an essential infrastructure component that can be utilized for supplying data to a
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variety of network analytics and security applications (e.g. IDS).
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* Free software: Apache license
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* API Reference: https://github.com/openstack/tap-as-a-service/blob/master/API_REFERENCE.rst
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* Source: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tap-as-a-service
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* Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/tap-as-a-service
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For installing Tap-as-a-Service with Devstack please read the INSTALL.rst file
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