Cisco Systems 5, NAM manual Context Menus, Quick Capture

Chapter 1 Overview

Navigating the User Interface

Context Menus

On most charts that appear on the dashboards, you can left-click on a colored bar of data to get a context menu, with which you can get more detailed information about that item.

The example above is from the Traffic Summary Dashboard, Top N Applications chart. The description to the right of “Selected Application” in the menu shows what item you had clicked on (in this case, “snmp”).

The menu items above the separator line are specific to the selected element of the Top N chart. The items below the separator line are not specific to the selected element, but apply to the Top N chart.

Quick Capture

From the Context menu of many of the bar charts that show Applications or Hosts or VLANs. you can start a Capture.

For example, when you click on an Application in a barchart (as in the screenshot above) and choose Capture, the following is done automatically:

•A memory-based capture session is created

•A software filter is created using that application

•The capture session is started

•The decode window pops open and you can immediately see packets being captured.

Note Quick Capture does not use site definition/filter.

User Guide for the Cisco Network Analysis Module (NAM) Traffic Analyzer, 5.0

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