Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Chapter 5
Applying Monitor Filters
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To apply a filter to the monitor:
1 From the Monitor menu, choose Select Filter.
2 Check Apply monitor filter.
A list of all available monitor filter profiles appears. Monitor filter
profiles are defined using the Monitor > Define Filter menu
option.
3 Select a monitor filter from the list.
Once you have selected a monitor filter in the list, the adjacent
pane provides a capsule description of the filter profile's settings.
4 Click OK.
The selected monitor filter profile is applied to the monitor
applications. You can tell if a Monitor filter is currently applied by
examining the lower left corner of the Sniffer window. If a Monitor
filter is currently applied, a message reading Monitor Filter On
will appear.
Making Changes to the Currently Selected Monitor Filter’s
Definitions
When you change the currently selected monitor filter's definitions in the
Define Filter - Monitor dialog box, the new definitions are not enacted
until you do one of the following:
Toggle the setting of the Apply monitor filter option in the
Monitor > Select Filter dialog box.
Select a different monitor filter profile and then reselect the
updated monitor filter profile in the Monitor > Select Filter dialog
box.