Stop-and-save capture buffer, Modes, Stop-and-save capture buffer -9 modes -9 – Finisar Surveyor User Manual

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Configuring Surveyor

Module Settings (Properties)

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For THGm modules, the default is no packet slicing (full packet length). For
THGm, the slicing size must be 64 bytes or greater and packet slicing of 128 bytes
is not supported for 1Gbps Ethernet.

For Portable Surveyor 10/100 Ethernet Analyzer Cards, and NDIS cards, the default
setting is no packet slicing for capture, 128-byte packet slice for monitor. For NDIS
modules, you cannot have both monitor and capture set to full packet size.

Stop-and-Save Capture Buffer

Only local devices support a stop-and-save-to-disk function for the capture buffer.

Check the

Enable Full Buffer Auto Save

box to enable the save-to-disk feature.

When using the save-to-disk feature, capture is stopped when the buffer is full and

the contents are written to disk. Capture is restarted as soon as the data is written to

the file. When the capture buffer fills again, the new contents are appended to the

file. If you start a new capture, the file is overwritten. If capture is stopped before

the capture buffer contents are full, the buffer contents are not automatically written

to disk; you must manually save the capture buffer to disk.

Modes

Select the

Modes

tab from the

Configuration

Module

Settings...

to set the

modes for a module.

Expert Analysis Mode

Expert Views and Alarms can be disabled. When disabled, no Expert Views or

Alarms will display in Surveyor software.
Uncheck the

Enable Expert Analysis Mode

box to disable Expert Views and Alarms.

The default is to enable Expert Analysis. If you do not have the Expert plug-in, you

cannot enable Expert Analysis Mode.

Non-Well-Known-Ports Mode

Non-well-known port (non-WKP) numbers in tables can be enabled or disabled for

each module when monitoring with local devices. When disabled, most port num-

bers above 1023 display as TCP Other or UDP Other with no port number pro-

vided.
It is recommended that you leave this feature disabled unless you are looking for

specific port numbers greater than 1023, since non-WKP numbers can quickly fill

Application Layer Tables. Surveyor always displays the port number if the number

is less than or equal to 1023. Surveyor also displays some ports above 1023 since

applications associated with them are widely accepted.
Check the

Monitor TCP/UDP non-well-known-ports individually

box to enable the

display of all non-WKP numbers. The default is to not display these port numbers.
With the option enabled all TCP packets with non-WKP numbers (TCP or UDP)

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