Finisar Surveyor, User Manual

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Surveyor
User’s Guide
Use the bottom portion of the dialog box to set the point from which Surveyor will
measure time when calculating and displaying the elapsed time stamp of each
packet. Set “time-zero” for capture in the
Elapsed Time Set Mark Option
portion of
the
Display Options
dialog box. The default option is Module Arm Time, which
starts time zero at the time the module is started. Select
Frame ID nnn's Arrival Time
and set the frame ID number in the box to start time zero when a particular frame
arrives. Setting this field only effects the display of the
Elapsed Time
field in the
protocol decode.
Histogram Options
Histogram options set the color, zoom factor, and the download size for the
hsitogram.
Setting Histogram Colors
You can change the default colors for the histogram display. To set new colors,
select the
Colors
tab from the
Configuration Æ Capture View Options Æ Histogram…
menu. Press the graphic element you want to change and select a new color. The
table below shows the graphic elements of the histogram display and the default
colors for each.
Table 4-2. Histogram Color Defaults
Graphic Element Description Default Color
Line Color Color of the line graph showing frames/time in the histo-
gram. Red
Back Color Background color for the histogram. Sections that are
not currently part of any other category are shown in this
color. Black
Current Section
Color Color of the currently active section. Decodes for the
active section appear in the Summary area. Magenta
Past Section Color Color of sections that are not active but are available in
the cache. Looking at these sections does not require
another download from the device. Green
Error/Lost Section
Color Color of sections that are lost or not available for display. Red
Removed Section
Color Color of sections that were downloaded during this ses-
sion, but have been removed from the cache. Review of
these sections requires another download from the
device. Yellow
Incomplete Section
Color Color of sections that are not a full 10MB of data, other
than the first section. This is typically the last section in a
large capture that does not ean on a 10MB boundary. Blue