Remote port mirroring possible on procurve 2800 series?

[Kilgore]

Hi, i'm trying to mirror traffic to an IDS device  which attaches to a 5400 zl, but the traffic goes through two 2800 series switches before it hits the 5400 (sometimes it might go through 3 2800 series switches).  Can someone point me in the right direction of how to do this?

I have looked at this:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=120&prodSeriesId=50883&prodTypeId=12883&objectID=c02945114

and am not sure if this is the right path.  If I'm reading it correctly, and this is the right path, it looks like I would create my mirroring group (the end node ports), then assign the monitoring port to its own vlan.  This vlan would then be added to the trunks on the intermediate switches, and land on a destination port, which is the port that my IDS is connected to.

Is this the basic process?

I do have 3 2524 switches to test with; I assume that the process is the same.

Thanks for all the good work in the forums,

Kilgore

[Kilgore]

Well, I tested out my theory yesterday, and couldn't get it to work. I did get information from elsewhere that has me convinced that what I'm looking to do isn't possible.