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5 Monitoring Your Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 About Sniffer Portable Professional Monitor Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Monitoring Wireless Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Monitor Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Monitor Applications and Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Monitor Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Exporting Monitor Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 6 Capturing Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 About Capturing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Capture Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Capture Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Capture Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Capturing from Specific Stations (Visual Filters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Capture Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Capture Triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 7 Real-Time Expert Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 About the Expert Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Setting Expert Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Setting Automatic Expert Display Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Displaying Context-Sensitive Explain Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Rearranging the Expert Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Exporting the Contents of the Expert Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 8 Displaying Captured Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Displaying Captured Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Postcapture Views for Wireless Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Postcapture Expert Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Postcapture Decode Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Postcapture Matrix Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Postcapture Host Table Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Postcapture Protocol Distribution Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 8 Sniffer Portable Professional
Postcapture Statistics Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 9 Working with Real-Time Decodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Enabling and Setting Real-time Decodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Viewing Real-time Decodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 10 Defining Filters and Triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Defined Filters vs. Automatic Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Define Filter Options for Wireless Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Defining Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Sharing Filters between Systems and Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Defining Triggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 11 Using the Address Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 About Address Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Creating Address Book Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 12 Managing Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 The Alarm Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Setting Alarm Severity Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Setting Alarm Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 13 Network Adapters and Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Removing Network Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Selecting Network Adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Creating Sniffer Monitoring Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 9 Sniffer Portable Professional
Page 1 and 2: Sniffer ® Portable Professional Us
Page 3 and 4: "This product includes software dev
Page 5: Related Information Resources NetSc
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Page 12 and 13: Chapter 1 Product Comparison Table
Page 14 and 15: Chapter 1 Major Components of Sniff
Page 16 and 17: Chapter 1 Table 1-2. Features for W
Page 18 and 19: Chapter 2 System Requirements 18 Sn
Page 20 and 21: Chapter 2 20 Sniffer Portable Profe
Page 22 and 23: Chapter 2 Installing the Sniffer Po
Page 26 and 27: Chapter 2 Native Atheros Driver Upd
Page 30 and 31: Chapter 2 Authorizing Sniffer Porta
Page 32 and 33: Chapter 2 Entering Licensing Inform
Page 34 and 35: Chapter 2 Starting Sniffer Portable
Page 36 and 37: Chapter 2 Tuning Settings for Sniff
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Page 44 and 45: Chapter 3 Sniffer Window Menus 44 S
Page 48 and 49: Chapter 4 Setting the General Tab O
Page 52 and 53: Chapter 4 Setting the App Threshold
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Chapter 4 58 Sniffer Portable Profe
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Chapter 4 Adding Tools to the Tools
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Chapter 5 Monitoring Wireless Netwo
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Chapter 5 Applying Monitor Filters
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Chapter 5 Dashboard 72 Sniffer Port
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Chapter 5 The Dashboard Gauge Tab 7
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Chapter 5 Host Table 82 Sniffer Por
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Chapter 5 Viewing Access Points Onl
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Chapter 5 Selecting Wireless Host T
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Chapter 5 Setting Capture Filters f
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Chapter 5 ART - The Server-Client R
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Chapter 5 Show Options 102 Sniffer
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Chapter 5 ART Options - Servers Onl
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Chapter 5 Adding Custom Protocols t
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Chapter 5 History Samples Click to
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Chapter 5 Protocol Distribution 114
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Chapter 5 Global Statistics 116 Sni
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Chapter 5 Monitor Alarms 120 Sniffe
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Chapter 6 Capture Controls 122 Snif
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Chapter 6 Capture Buffer 124 Sniffe
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Chapter 6 Tips: 126 Sniffer Portabl
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Chapter 6 Capturing from Specific S
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Chapter 7 Setting Expert Options 13
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Chapter 7 Expert Subnet Mask Settin
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Chapter 7 Discovered access points
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Chapter 7 Expert Oracle Options 150
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Chapter 7 Limitations of the Expert
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Chapter 7 Click to show the packet
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Chapter 8 Displaying Captured Packe
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Chapter 8 Postcapture Views for Wir
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Chapter 8 Table 8-3. Decode Tab Too
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Chapter 8 Display Setup > Summary D
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Chapter 8 Searching for Frames in t
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Chapter 8 Searching for Frames Matc
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Chapter 8 Searching for Data Patter
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Chapter 8 Printing Decoded Packets
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Chapter 8 Using Protocol Forcing Yo
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Chapter 8 Sniffer Portable Professi
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Chapter 8 More about the Matrix Tra
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Chapter 8 Postcapture Host Table Ta
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Chapter 8 Postcapture Statistics Ta
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Chapter 9 4 Click OK. 214 Sniffer P
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Chapter 10 Using a Defined Filter U
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Chapter 10 Drag and drop a symbolic
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Chapter 11 Description 250 Sniffer
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Chapter 11 Entering Names Manually
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Chapter 11 Click to resolve the Dom
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Chapter 12 Type of node triggering
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Chapter 12 Setting Alarm Severity L
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Chapter 12 Setting Alarm Notificati
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Chapter 13 Creating Sniffer Monitor
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Capture panel, 123 Capture triggers
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zooming, Host Table 111 display tab
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Resolve name on Network address, Re
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