Finisar manual Surveyor System, Launching Surveyor

Chapter 3

Getting Started

The Surveyor System

A complete Surveyor system consists of Surveyor software and at least one Finisar distributed net QoS system, analyzer card, or NDIS-compatible Ethernet adapter. Multiple devices can be installed in the local host PC.

With the Remote plug-in you have access to other PCs containing Finisar analyzer cards, NDIS adapters, or other devices such as Finisar’s THGs or tap device. All remote devices must be properly installed before they can be accessed by Surveyor.

Launching Surveyor

The base memory address is not required for portable analyzer cards or THGm cards when you launch Surveyor.

Perform the following steps to set up your environment and launch the Surveyor software:

1. Launch the Surveyor program.

Double-click on the icon in the Surveyor group or other group where

you installed the Surveyor application.

2.The first time you launch Surveyor, you’ll be asked if you have any local analyzer or tap devices.

If you do not have any local analyzer devices, do not check any boxes, click OK, and skip to step 3.

If you have THGm analyzer cards installed in your local system or switching taps connected to your local system, select the appropriate box and click OK. Surveyor displays the System Settings dialog box.

Use the Scanning Ports tab in the dialog box to tell Surveyor which ports to scan to access the analyzer cards you have installed on your system. Click the check box opposite the module number that corresponds to base memory address of

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