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User Guide for the Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM) Traffic Analyzer, 5.0
OL-22617-01
About This Guide
Audience
This guide is designed for network administrators who are responsible for setting up and configuring
Network Analysis Modules (NAMs) to monitor traffic and diagnose emerging problems on network
segments. As a network administrator, you should be familiar with:
• Basic concepts and terminology used in internetworking.
• Network topology and protocols.
• Basic UNIX commands or basic Windows operations.
Conventions
This document uses the following conventions:
Note Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to material not covered in the
publication.
Caution Means reader be careful. In this situation, you might do something that could result in equipment
damage or loss of data.
Notices
The Third Party and Open Source Copyright Notices for the Cisco Network Analysis Module, Release
5.0 contains the licenses and notices for open source software used in NAM Traffic Analyzer 5.0. NAM
5.0 includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit
(http://www.openssl.org/). This document is available on www.cisco.com with the NAM Traffic
Analyzer technical documentation.
Item Convention
Commands and keywords boldface font
Variables for which you supply values italic font
Displayed session and system information screen font
Information you enter boldface screen font
Variables you enter italic screen font
Menu items and button names boldface font
Selecting a menu item in paragraphs Option > Network Preferences
Selecting a menu item in tables Option > Network Preferences