Sniffer Network Analyser
Workshop.
Note this course can
be run as a 'closed session' course focussing on a single
organisation if required.
Course Location
- On-site or at the Milton Keynes Regus
Training Facility
Duration
- One or Two Days (Two day course covers topics
in greater depth)
Sniffer
Workshop
Objectives
- Designed for Sniffer 4.6, 4.7 and
4.8
- At the end of this workshop you will be able to:
- Understand and use each module of the Network Associates Sniffer Pro Network Analyser.
- Monitor your network to create Baseline reports.
- Tell what's happening on your network in ‘real-time’
- ‘Read’ a TCP/IP packet decode…. and it makes sense!!
- Use Sniffer effectively to troubleshooting and quickly resolve problems in your networks.
- Optimise your network and applications using the information you have gained from Sniffer Pro
2 day course Agenda
- Sniffer Pro overview
- Toolbars
- Generating traffic
- Monitoring Applications
- Dashboard
- Host Table
- Matrix Table
- ART
- History Reports
- Protocol Distribution
- Global Statistics
- Alarms
- Sniffer’s configuration
options
- Understanding where to place Sniffer and what to do with
it
- Baselining
- Benchmarking
- Traffic Generation
- Anomaly Detection
- Fault Determination
- Expert Sniffer
- Expert Sniffer Model
- Troubleshooting using
Sniffer
- Analysis of each Expert
layer
- Configuring Expert
Thresholds
- Expert Examples
- Sniffer Reporter
- How Reporter works
- Setting up reporter
- Generation Reports
- Capture and Display
- Navigation Tips
- Setting and using Capture
Filters
- Display and Monitor
Filters
- Advanced Features
- Real time Vs Buffer Views
- Visual Filters
- Address Book
- Triggers
- Protocol Forcing
- Switch Expert
- Concepts
- Installing
- Configuration
- Using Switch Expert
- TCP/IP
- Transmission Control
Protocol
- Portals
- Sockets
- Segments
- 3 way handshake
- Flow Control
- TCP Fields
- User Datagram Protocol
- DHCP
- IP
- Name resolution
- ICMP
- IP Fragmentation
- NetBIOS & DNS
- Frame Types
- 802.2, 802.3 and Ethernet
II
The course features a number of hands on examples at each
module of the course, all notes and examples are provided in a 120
page manual and on CD.
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Principal
Consultant
a Network Associates Certified Professional
(NACP) |

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Certification
- There is no certification associated
with this course.
Who should attend
- This course is designed for those people who
will be responsible for the the Evaluation, Assement, Installation
and Implementation of the SNMPc management
solution.
Pre-requisites
- Delegates should have a system level
knowledge of their network Infrastructure, to gain maximum benefit
from the day.