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Getting started using your GigaStor
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Press the Settings button. Under General Options , clear Enable Analysis types
for whichever analysis types you do not need. This will remove them from the
Reports/Statistics ribbon.
Use the left/right arrow on the Reports/Statistics ribbon to move it to the
right to see the Maximize button if needed. Clicking this button maximizes or
minimizes the section. Now you can more easily work with and view reports
and statistics for your selected time frame. You can filter or select a specific area
of interest, such as HTTP. Press the Analyze button and choose Filter Using
Selected GigaStor Entries to open Expert Analysis and decode tools focused
on just your area of interest.
Non-GigaStor-specific settings
The GigaStor Control Panel is a portion of Observer. Some settings in Observer
affect the GigaStor.
Some things you may want to configure in Observer include:
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Discovering host names so that GigaStor resolves and uses host names.
See the Discovery section in the Observer User Guide.
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Protocol definitions. This is particularly important if you have custom
protocols you want to monitor. See the Discovery section in the Observer
User Guide.
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TCP/UDP/Server applications. By defining specific applications Observer
can provide more detailed reports to you. Observer has many applications
already defined, but you can add more if you wish. See the Discovery
section in the Observer User Guide.
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The default settings for Observer is to not be aware of TCP connections
that were opened after the GigaStor or packet capture started. You can
change this default setting.
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Mine some data from the GigaStor. See Analyzing data without any filters
(page 225) . This opens the Decode and Analysis tab.
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Ensure the Expert Analysis tab is selected, then click the Settings button
at the top. The Expert Global Settings window opens.
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Click the TCP/IP tab and clear the Follow only newly opened TCP
connections
option. A newly opened TCP connection is any connection
established after Expert Analysis was started. If the conversation started
before Expert Analysis was started, Observer cannot see it.
Setting the GigaStor general options
The General Options tab configures packet capture and buffer size; whether
partial packets are captured; indexing of MAC, IP, VLANs; capture and analysis
options; sampling; analysis types; and more.
This tab lets you configure many options for the GigaStor.
2. Click the Settings button.
3. Click General Options . See Table 3 (page 190) for a description of each
field of the GigaStor General Options tab.