Scanner on Trunk

Vendor: IBM ISS.

Product: Proventia Network Enterprise Scanner

Feature small description.
Model ES1500 has five scanning interfaces. This means that it can scan from five network segments simultaneously.

Problem description.
In case you don't want scan one VLAN from another VLAN you can scan only five different VLANs.

Enhancement description.
Enable ES to understand 802.1q trunks. This allows us to configure multiple virtual interfaces on one physical, so we can create as more interfaces as we need and scan each host from its VLAN.

Obstacles.
May be this is marketing. In case with trunk you can make 100 virtual interfaces and scan 100 VLANs simultaneously by one scanner. In current situation to scan 100 VLANs you need 20 different ES1500. But I think this is rather joke then reality.

Hope, this small enhancement will be added soon.