Gigastor capture analysis – Network Instruments GigaStor 114ff User Manual

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Connecting Observer to the GigaStor

Chapter 2 Installing Your GigaStor

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Repeat step 7 through step 10 until you have created all of your
probe instances. Any unused memory should be reallocated to the
packet capture buffer of the active probe instance or to the
operating system.

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Click OK to close the Probe administration windows. After a
moment the GigaStor probe and any probe instances appear in
the Observer Probe list found along the left side of the main
Observer window.

GigaStor Capture Analysis

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Click Capture

→ GigaStor Capture Analysis to begin viewing

network traffic that passes through the GigaStor probe. The
GigaStor Control Panel opens (Figure 17).

Figure 17 GigaStor Control Panel

At this point the data is not being written to disk unless you
manually click the Start button. With most GigaStor installations,
you want the GigaStor probe to always be writing its data to disk.

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Click Settings in the middle of the top menu bar. The GigaStor
Settings window opens. Click the Schedule tab.

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