Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Chapter 6
Capturing from Specific Stations (Visual
Filters)
1. Select station (turns blue)
2. Click Capture
You can see the progress
of the capture on the
status line of the main
Sniffer Portable
Professional window, or
on the Capture Panel
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To capture packets for a particular station, select the station from the
monitor’s host table display. To capture packets between two specific
stations, select one of the stations from the monitor’s matrix display.
Then, click . (To view the host table or matrix table, select Host
Table or Matrix from the Monitor menu, or use a toolbar button.)
Figure 6-3 shows an example of how to capture from a single station in
the host table. The following procedure provides the details:
To capture packets between two specific stations:
1 Display the Matrix (Monitor > Matrix) in the tabular view.
2 Select one of the conversations in the display.
3 Click the Quick Capture button in the Matrix’s toolbar.
In response, a capture starts with an automatic Quick Capture filter set
up to include just traffic between the two selected stations.
The following example illustrates capturing from a single station in the
host table. After the selected station turns blue, click the Capture
button from the vertical toolbar. The capture progress appears in the
main window, or on the Capture Panel.
Figure 6-3. Single-Station Capture from the Host Table