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Surveyor

User’s Guide

Protocol Color Coding

Surveyor provides a real-time protocol decode called Packet Summary View and protocol decodes in Capture View. To use these displays more effectively, you may want to set the colors used for packet display. For example, you might want to dis- play all transport layer packets in red and all others in black if you are looking only for protocol decode information in the transport layer.

To set up or change color coding for protocol decode, do the following:

1.Choose System Settings… from the Configuration menu. Select the Protocol Color Coding tab.

2.Click on a protocol layer.

3.Using the color buttons, set the foreground and background color display for

the selected protocol.

4.Repeat as required for other protocol layers.

5.Make sure that the Use Color Coding box is checked.

6.Click the OK button.

Use the Default All button to return all color settings to their default values. Use the Set Default button to reset the default to the colors currently displayed.

Setting Update Timers

Timers control how often counters, tables, and displays are updated. There are two types of timers, display timers and polling timers. Remote polling timers control how often data is updated from remote systems. Display timers control how often displays of data are updated in the Surveyor software. All timer values are in seconds.

For local devices, the MAC Layer counters are updated every second, and other charts and tables for local devices are updated every 10 seconds.

To configure the timers, select System Settings… from the Configuration menu. Select the Timers tab. The timers are listed and described in Table 4-6, Table 4-7, and Table 4-8.

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