Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout
Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout
Contents 1 Introducing Sniffer Portable Professional . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Product Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Major Components of Sniffer Portable Professional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Sniffer Portable Professional Features for Wireless Networks . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 Installing Sniffer Portable Professional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Uninstalling Previous Versions of Sniffer Portable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Installing the Sniffer Portable Professional Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Installing Sniffer Enhanced Drivers (802.11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Authorizing Sniffer Portable Professional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Starting Sniffer Portable Professional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Tuning Settings for Sniffer Portable Professional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 3 Introducing the Sniffer Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Navigating the Sniffer Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 4 Setting Options in the Sniffer Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Setting the General Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Setting the Real Time Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Setting the MAC Threshold Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Setting the App Threshold Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Setting the Alarm Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Setting the Protocols Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Setting the Protocol Forcing Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Setting Tools > Wireless Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Adding Tools to the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 User’s Guide 7
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Contents<br />
1 Introducing Sniffer <strong>Portable</strong> <strong>Professional</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />
Product Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />
Major Components of Sniffer <strong>Portable</strong> <strong>Professional</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />
Sniffer <strong>Portable</strong> <strong>Professional</strong> Features for Wireless Networks . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />
2 Installing Sniffer <strong>Portable</strong> <strong>Professional</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />
Uninstalling Previous Versions of<br />
Sniffer <strong>Portable</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />
Installing the Sniffer <strong>Portable</strong> <strong>Professional</strong> Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22<br />
Installing Sniffer Enhanced Drivers (802.11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />
Authorizing Sniffer <strong>Portable</strong> <strong>Professional</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />
Starting Sniffer <strong>Portable</strong> <strong>Professional</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />
Tuning Settings for Sniffer <strong>Portable</strong> <strong>Professional</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36<br />
3 Introducing the Sniffer Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />
Navigating the Sniffer Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />
4 Setting Options in the Sniffer Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47<br />
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47<br />
Setting the General Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48<br />
Setting the Real Time Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />
Setting the MAC Threshold Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51<br />
Setting the App Threshold Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52<br />
Setting the Alarm Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52<br />
Setting the Protocols Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52<br />
Setting the Protocol Forcing Tab Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53<br />
Setting Tools > Wireless Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54<br />
Adding Tools to the Tools Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64<br />
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