Finisar Surveyor manual Application Layer Matrix View, Table Column Descriptions, Vlan

Surveyor

User’s Guide

The station addresses and names in the conversation are provided in the table or chart. The name and address are the same if Surveyor does not have a name table with address-to-name correspondences.

Chart

Application Layer Matrix View as a chart shows only ten applications over network conversations. The ten conversations displayed are those transmitting the largest relative percentage of frames. The chart can be customized to show the “top ten” conversations based on a different information field. The Bar and Pie buttons toggle the type of graphic display. The Pause/Resume button allows you to pause or resume real-time update of the graph.

Table

Application Layer Matrix View as a table shows network activity from the view of applications over network station pairs. The table lists statistics for applications within all station pairs found. The table can be customized to include other columns of information.Table columns listed in italics are the Application Layer Matrix View default columns.

Press the right mouse button on any table entry to create a filter using the selected network layer conversation. See Chapter 7 for information on filters.

Table 6-16. Application Layer Matrix View, Table Column Descriptions

Table Column	Description
Net Station Name 1	Name of a network station
Net Station Address 1	Network layer address of a network station
Net Station Name 2	Network layer address of a second network station
Net Station Address 2	Address of a second network station in IP address format
Application	Name of the application running over the network station pair
VLAN Id	Decimal number of the virtual LAN. Virtual LANs using Cisco’s ISL pro-
	tocols are the only virtual LANs recognized at this time. Click on the
	VLAN ID to see a network station or network conversation view for that
	VLAN.
Frames 1—>2	Number of frames sent from Network Station 1 to Network Station 2 for
	this application
Frames 2—>1	Number of frames sent from Network Station 2 to Network Station 1 for
	this application
Frames 1<—>2	Number of frames sent in either direction between Network Station 1
	and Network Station 2 for this application

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