Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Chapter 2
Starting Sniffer Portable Professional
34 Sniffer Portable Professional
After you have installed and authorized Sniffer Portable Professional and
any necessary enhanced drivers, start the application as follows:
1 Log in to the Sniffer Portable Professional application PC.
2 Go to Start > (All) Programs > NetScout > Sniffer Portable
Professional > Sniffer Portable.
3 The Adapter Settings dialog box appears, allowing you to choose
which capture card on the PC you’d like to use for network
monitoring and analysis.
Check the Post Capture box to open the application without
monitoring a specific card.
Check the Real Time box to begin monitoring the selected
card.
4 Click OK to open the Sniffer Portable Professional application.
No Network Cards Listed in Adapter Settings Dialog Box?
If you start the Sniffer Portable Professional application and do not see
any network cards listed in the Adapter Settings dialog box, you may
need to install the Sniffer Portable Professional Protocol Driver manually.
Use the procedure corresponding to your operating system, as follows:
To install the Sniffer Portable Professional Protocol Driver on
Windows XP:
1 Open the Network Connections Control Panel (Start > Control
Panel > Network Connections).
2 Right-click the entry for a network adapter (for example, Local
Area Connection) and select the Properties command from the
context menu that appears.
3 Click the Install button, select the Protocol entry in the list of
components that appears, and click Add.
4 Click Have Disk, use the Browse button to navigate to the
following path, and click OK:
C:\Program Files\NetScout\Sniffer Portable\driver\en\sniffer\winxp
5 Select the Sniffer Portable Professional Protocol Driver entry
and click OK.
6 After installation, close out of Local Area Connection Properties and
reboot the system.