Finisar Surveyor manual Histogram Options, Other Options

Configuration→Capture View Options Configuration→Capture View Options expert settings for system.

Using the Histogram Control

View Options

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Using the Histogram Control

Protocol Color Coding tab from the System Settings menu option. See “Appendix D” for a list of Surveyor’s default protocol color codes.

If you have special decoding or display needs for non-standard protocols, see the “Advanced Configuration” section in Chapter 4 for information on assigning protocol parsers and assigning names to protocols.

Histogram Options

Select Capture View Options→Histogram… from the Configuration menu and select tabs at the top to set up the histogram display.

For the histogram, you can set the colors for the display from the Colors tab. However, it is recommended that you maintain the default colors. You can also set the Zoom Factor from the Zoom Options tab. The Zoom Factor controls how fast you can zoom in and out the view of data. You can also the set the download size from the Sections tab. This controls how much data is downloaded from external capture devices when the data is requested by pressing the down load button in the histogram window. See “Histogram Options” on page 4-4 for complete information on setting up capture view histogram options.

Other Options

You can enable or disable Expert Analysis views from the Configuration→Capture menu. You can also enable or disable the Packet Editor from the

menu. Selecting Expert Settings from the menu brings up the dialog box to select

The histogram control graphically represents the entire capture from start to end. It also allows you to expand and collapse the view of the histogram to look at a graphic display of a detailed portion of the capture.

The Surveyor histogram has two graphs:

•The upper part of the histogram shows a detail area of the capture. The purple/ magenta area in the Upper Histogram corresponds to the events shown in the Summary area (listing of decoded events).

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