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2. Click the
Update Reports
button to get the latest data from the time frame selected. This is unnecessary
if you have “Auto-updateGigaStor chart on statistics tab or selection change” in the GigaStor Settings. See
Setting GigaStor's basic options .
3. Click the Analyze button. The GigaStor Analysis Options window opens.
4. Select “Analyze all traffic in the analysis interval” and click
OK
.
Your unfiltered data appears in a new “Decode and Analysis” tab.
Analyzing data with filters from the Observer filter editor
1. Select a time frame you want to analyze. See Selecting a time frame to analyze .
2. Click the Update Reports button to get the latest data from the time frame selected. This is unnecessary
if you have “Auto-updateGigaStor chart on statistics tab or selection change” in the GigaStor Settings. See
Setting GigaStor's basic options .
3. Click the
Analyze
button. The GigaStor Analysis Options window opens.
4. Choose “Select an Observer filter” and click OK . The GigaStor Analysis Filter window opens.
5. Choose one or more filters that you want to use and click
OK
.
Your filtered data appears in a new “Decode and Analysis” tab.
Analyzing data with filters from the GigaStor Control Panel
You may want to filter the data that is shown on the Detail Graph. You can do so with the filters section of the
GigaStor Control Panel. You can filter data from MAC Stations tab, IP Stations tab, IP Pairs tab, and more.
One example where you might use this is if you have strange traffic (perhaps a virus) on your network that
you want to identify or isolate. By selecting a station from IP Stations tab and an application from the TCP
Applications tab, you can select the “Combine tabs for detailed chart pre-filter” to generate a specific report.
Using this report you can understand the general pattern of activity of the strange traffic so that you can
conduct further analysis using packet decodes.
If you are using the Ethernet Physical Port filter in conjunction with other filters, in the GigaStor Control Panel
> Settings > General Options tab, you must enable the “Use physical port selections to filter statistics” option
otherwise the combined filter will not work as you expect.
1. Select a time frame you want to analyze. See Selecting a time frame to analyze .
2. Click the
Update Reports
button to get the latest data from the time frame selected. This is unnecessary
if you have “Auto-updateGigaStor chart on statistics tab or selection change” in the GigaStor Settings. See
Setting GigaStor's basic options .
3. Click the IP Stations tab (or any statistics tab to the right of the Summary tab).
4. Select one or more stations. This creates and opens a GigaStor Control Panel filter.