HP Transcend Traffix Manager manual Displaying Network Traffic in the Main Window

62CHAPTER 7: DISPLAYING NETWORK TRAFFIC IN THE MAIN WINDOW

If you want to change the protocols in an application, create a new favorite rather than edit a predefined application grouping.

The concept of having applications and favorites (collections of related protocols) also applies also to graphs, reports and events, as well as to viewing in the Map. See Chapter 8, “Displaying Traffic in Graphs”, Chapter 9, “Using Event Rules”, and Chapter 11, “Overview of Reporting” for further information.

Protocol Tools You can launch the Protocols dialog box by clicking Protocols on the Display menu. From the Protocols dialog box, you can select applications and favorites to be displayed in the Map, and save selected applications as a favorite.

Using the Configure Protocols dialog box, you can:

■Set up and edit applications and favorites. You can move protocols to an application by selecting and moving them in the Protocols tab of the Configure Protocols dialog box, and moving them into the Applications tab. You can add applications and protocols to a favorite in the same way.

Two applications cannot contain the same protocol (a protocol can appear in more than one favorite, however). As applications do not overlap, you can display all applications in the Map simultaneously, by selecting the predefined favorite All Applications.

■Change the color used to denote an item — protocol, application or favorite — in the Map. Setting a color will total up all the lower-level contents of the selected item, and display only the total traffic as one color. Setting the color to No Color is a special case, which displays the lower-level contents of the selected item. You can think of this as looking through the item to see the contents below.

User-definedIt should not be necessary to alter any of the predefined protocols. You Protocols can add user-defined protocols if required.

For example, you might want to monitor the use of a particular server that uses two port numbers to communicate with clients on the network. You could add two user-defined protocols to those agents on your network that support user-defined protocols. You can then monitor all interactions between clients and the server using the Map and/or the reporter.