Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Chapter 13
Creating Sniffer Monitoring Profiles
270 Sniffer Portable Professional
To operate Sniffer Portable Professional with different network adapters
and settings, you create separate entities, called profiles. A profile can
be thought of as a set of settings — each profile holds session
information, such as the address book, capture filter settings, and
packet display options. Each profile has independent configuration
information, so it can be used to globally reconfigure Sniffer Portable
Professional when moving from one network to another, one segment to
another, or for setting up the options for specific tasks.
When you create a new profile, it automatically uses the settings
currently defined in the Sniffer Portable Professional application (the
address book, capture filter settings, packet display options, and so on).
NOTE: If you use Sniffer Portable Professional as a field service tool
to troubleshoot different networks, use the profile feature to
maintain configuration information for each client’s network.
To create a new profile:
1 Select Adapter Settings from the File menu.
2 Click New.
3 In the New Settings dialog box (Figure 13-2), enter a description
for the profile in the field provided. This will also be the name of the
profile and will appear in future instances of the Settings dialog
box.
4 Select the adapter for this profile. All adapters are listed.
5 Use the Copy settings from field to use the configuration settings
from an existing profile. The drop-down list includes all previously
defined profiles on the Sniffer Portable Professional PC. The
settings you are copying include the address book, filter settings,
trigger settings, alarm threshold settings, and so on. If you do not
use the Copy settings from field, the new profile will be created
using the settings currently active on Sniffer Portable Professional.
You can then change these settings to suit your needs.
NOTE: Various options in Sniffer Portable Professional's
menus will change depending on the type of adapter you have
selected for capture.
6 Click OK.