Network Instruments GigaStor 114ff manuals

Network instruments GigaStor 114ff User Manual (146 pages)

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English

Table of contents

GIGASTOR

1

GigaStor User Guide

3

Trademark Notices

4

Limited Warranty—Hardware

4

Limited Warranty—Software

5

Liability

5

Ownership and Confidentiality

6

Technical Support

7

Contents

9

About the GigaStor

13

GigaStor versions

14

Chapter 1 About the GigaStor

15

Installing Your GigaStor

17

Probe administration

24

GigaStor Capture Analysis

29

Digital T1/E1 Probe Settings

35

Serial T1/E1 Probe Settings

36

Q “Gigabit copper” on page 40

37

Q Optical TAP

37

10/100/1000

39

NIC for TCP/IP

39

Gigabit copper

40

Tapping a WAN connection

42

Router (DCE)CSU/DSU (DTE)

45

GigaStor or

45

Serial T1/E1 TAP

45

Observer Console

45

Figure 29 DS3/E3 TAP

47

Serial/HSSI

48

Figure 30 WAN HSSI

49

Drive ID sticker

51

GigaStor (8 drive)

51

GigaStor (16 drive)

51

1 2 3 4

52

GigaStor Control Panel

57

Display Controls

59

Right-click menus

60

Analyze button

61

GigaStor Options tab

64

Table 5 GigaStor Options tab

65

GigaStor Chart tab

67

GigaStor Outline

67

Figure 41 GigaStor Outline

68

Capture Graph tab

69

GigaStor Schedule tab

70

Statistics Lists tab

71

GigaStor reports

75

Discover Network Names

80

WAN Bandwidth Utilization

82

WAN Vital Signs by DLCI

83

WAN Load by DLCI

84

WAN Top Talkers

86

WAN Filtering

87

Triggers and Alarms

88

Figure 62 Triggers tab

89

Forensic Analysis using Snort

91

About Forensic Analysis tab

98

Q “Rules tab” on page 106

100

Rules tab

106

Observer on the GigaStor

107

Probe Instances

111

What is a probe instance?

112

Chapter 8 Probe Instances

114

Gen2 Capture Card

115

Chapter 9 Gen2 Capture Card

116

TCP/IP ports, NAT, and VPN

123

TCP/IP ports

124

Expansion Unit Cases

127

GigaStor

128

GigaStor Expandable

129

Expansion unit

130

Serial ATA Disk Interface

131

Power Supply

131

GigaStor Portable

133

Appendix C GigaStor Portable

134

Running Observer passively

136

Numerics

139

Legend: ff=Figure, t=Table

140

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