Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Chapter 13
268 Sniffer Portable Professional
To select an adapter:
1 Select Adapter Settings from the File menu to open the Adapter
Settings dialog box (see Figure 13-1).
The Adapter Settings dialog box contains the profiles you have
defined for this Sniffer Portable Professional PC.
2 Select a previously defined profile as the target network for the
Sniffer Portable Professional to monitor from the list provided.
NOTE: To define new profiles to use for monitoring, click New
and supply the appropriate information. See Creating Sniffer
Monitoring Profiles on page 270 for more information.
3 Change the Real Time/Post Capture option if desired. This
checkbox specifies whether Sniffer Portable Professional will
actively monitor an adapter at startup:
If the Post Capture box appears, the selected profile is
currently in Real Time mode and will automatically begin
monitoring the selected adapter at startup. You can check the
Post Capture box to open the application without monitoring
a specific card.
If the Real Time box appears, the selected profile is currently
in Post Capture mode and will only be available for trace file
analysis. You can check the Real Time box to enable
real-time monitoring and analysis according to the privileges
assigned to your account.
The name of this option changes depending on what the card is
currently set to. For example, since the card selected in Figure 13-1
is set to start in Real Time mode, you could check Post Capture
to reverse that.
4 Change the Local Mode option if desired. This checkbox specifies
whether Sniffer Portable Professional monitors all traffic or only
local/broadcast/multicast traffic:
If Local Mode is not checked, Sniffer Portable Professional
monitors promiscuously, including all traffic.
If Local Mode is checked, Sniffer Portable Professional
monitors only traffic to/from the local host, broadcast traffic,
and multicast traffic with the local host addressed.
5 Click OK.