Selects Begin from the Capture menu. The Begin Capture Dialog Window will be opened.
Capture starts when pushing on the start button; captured traffics is saved into an ACP file. Then the analysis engine (the query program) opens the ACP file, it creates a text file which represents the capture session; then it passes the text file to the interface which shows the final product.
Anyway Analyzer can recognize automatically the other formats of the capture files but on condition that their extensions were defined through the dialog 'Capture definitions and file extensions associations' (menu voice: Setup/Captures/Capture Association). In this dialog the user can define:
N.B.: Analyzer can display the capture files created by WinDump and tcpdump, on condition that the capture files have the ACP extension.
In order to make easier the navigation through the packets list, shown in the first pane, Analyzer has the functionality of setting a filter; for instance you can set the expression 'IP' as filter, so you can navigate only through the IP packets; anyway the filter expressions can consider a lot of packet characteristics.
The filter is set through the window 'Select
Filter dialog Window'
(Select voice in the Edit menu): the packets satisfying the
expression are also selected; the navigation through the filtered packets is controlled
with the buttons
.
The capture file saved in the html format appears as it appears in the Analyzer interface; click on 'Save as' button and select the html format in the formats list; then try to open the saved file with a browser.
In the folder html there some files (java script and gif) which are used to generate the html output.