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Observer

• Redirecting a probe instance
• Building an address book
• Viewing bandwidth utilization
• Discovering current top talkers on the network
• Discovering conversation between local devices and the Internet
• Viewing a list of protocols seen on the network
• Viewing router utilization statistics
• Viewing network errors
• Discovering network errors by device
• Capturing network traffic
• Pre-filtering your packet captures
• Configuring and using alarms
• Real-time Expert decoding techniques
• Using the Expert Analysis feature
• Using Connection Dynamics
• Using Server Analysis
• Using "What-if" modeling
• Using MultiHop Analysis
• Collecting VoIP data
• Analyzing VoIP traffic
• SNMP
• Configuring SNMP agents
• Using the MIB editor
• Using the MIB walker
• Discovering which devices are connected to a switch
• Using Observer's reports
• Viewing reports in a web browser
• Creating or modifying Observer or GigaStor reports
• Enabling SOAP requests
• Securing communication between probes and analyzers
• Encrypt captured data
• Trim data from your captures
• Collecting network trending data
• Analyzing Layer 4 data in APA
• Analyzing servers and applications using Layer 5-7 data in ATA
• Determining the health of your network
• Monitoring connection statistics
• Load testing your network
• Merging packet captures

Probes & GigaStor

• Probes and GigaStor
  • Deciding where to put probes in your network
  • Backing up your probe
  • Configuring a probe's name and other options
  • Configuring the probe's adapter speed, ToS/QoS precendence, and statistics sampling
  • Redirecting a probe to an Observer analyzer
  • Changing the monitored network adapter
  • Configuring probes to collect data even when not connected to an analyzer
  • Enabling Network Trending
  • Creating a probe instance
  • Setting the total system memory reserved for probes
  • Customizing statistics and capture buffers for probe instances
  • Restricting access to probes with user accounts
  • Configuring access permissions for probe instances
  • Encrypting data sent between the probe and analyzer
  • Setting the probe's time clock synchronization settings
  • Using the probe as a virtual TAP
  • Capturing full-duplex traffic
  • Bonding probe instances to specific ports on the Gen2 card through virtual adapters
  • Creating a NetFlow collector or NetFlow trending collector
  • Creating and configuring an MPLS probe instance
  • Creating an sFlow collector
  • Monitoring a wireless access point
  • Monitoring a WAN connection
  • Adding virtual adapters on the Gen2 capture card
  • Configuring the 10 Gb Gen2 card with SPAN/mirror port
  • Configuring Observer to use reserved memory
  • Changing the statistics memory configurations
  • How packet capture affect RAM

• GigaStor only

  The GigaStor is a probe. Everything in the list above also applies to the GigaStor.

  • Creating GigaStor active and passive probe instances
  • Connecting to a probe instance
  • Setting the GigaStor's basic options
  • Creating a schedule for capturing packets
  • Mining data from your GigaStor
  • Reconstructing streams of HTTP, VoIP, etc.
  • Examining network traffic with forensic analysis and SNORT
  • Analyzing FIX transactions
  • Exporting GigaStor data for archiving
  • Using GigaStor reports
  • Using the GigaStor Control Panel
  • Maintaining your GigaStor RAID array

Observer Reporting Server

• Dealing wit dynamic IP addresses
• Defining a router in a business group
• Filtering what protocols appear in a business group
• Filtering what stations appear in a business group
• Creating a Network Trending report
• Using NetLive reports
• Scheduling data transfer
• Creating a baseline report
• Scheduling reports to be created automatically
• Configuring security in ORS

Observer Infrastructure

• Discovering your network
• Creating a device group
• Using containers to organize your device groups
• Embedding device groups within another device group
• De-activating an unused device group
• Using routes to verify SLA or route flapping
• Creating a route map
• Merging routers within subnets
• Enabling real-time response time analysis for routes for QoS and SLA
• Configuring alarms
• Defining marginal or critical conditions for an object
• Using Inventory reports
• Using reports
• Using the Polling feature
• Connecting to a remote Observer Infrastructure
• Simulating VoIP calls between IP SLA-enabled routers
• Monitoring a latency-sensitive or distributed application
• Configuring monitors
• Monitoring disk drives
• Configuring your Cisco IP SLA monitor
• Defining how IP applications are defined
• Configuring how much hard drive space Observer Infrastructure uses

NIMS

• Managing user and probe access
• Configuring Observer analyzers to use NIMS security
• Configuring probes to use NIMS security
• Sharing filters
• Auto-upgrading Observer and probe software
• Running NIMS as a Windows service
• Using a failover NIMS system
• Managing probe and Observer licenses
• Defining probe access permissions
• Configuring how user accounts should authenticate
• Setting failed login attempts and notifications