Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Real-time

The most intuitive way to use a protocol analyzer is in realtime, making measurements on the live network as the traffic is occurring. However, extra processing power is required to keep up with realtime network events. Real-time analysis is performed to troubleshoot catastrophic network failures as they occur. The network engineer will interact with the protocol analyzer to gather information, query the network, and solve the problem. Realtime analysis is also used to gather performance monitoring information over long periods of time that would typically overrun a capture buffer.

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