Two day Full Training: £995 + Expenses (per day)

Objectives

• Overview

• 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

• Toolbars
• Generating traffic

• Dashboard
• Host Table
• Matrix Table
• ART
• History Reports
• Protocol Distribution
• Global Statistics
• Alarms
• Sniffer's configuration options

• Baselining
• Benchmarking
• Traffic Generation
• Anomaly Detection
• Fault Determination

• Expert Sniffer Model
• Troubleshooting using Sniffer
• Analysis of each Expert layer
• Configuring Expert Thresholds
• Expert Examples

• Setting up reporter
• Generation Reports

• Navigation Tips
• Setting and using Capture Filters
• Display and Monitor Filters

• Real time Vs Buffer Views
• Visual Filters
• Address Book
• Triggers
• Protocol Forcing

• Concepts
• Installing
• Configuration
• Using Switch Expert

• 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

• 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.