This Course is intended for Network Professionals, Network Administrators or Anyone who wants to start learning more about what's going on their network connection. A Protocol Analyzer allows you to capture and display traffic on your network connection.
It is a beginners guide to installing and using a Protocol Analyzer.
This Course will cover:
Downloading, installing software for the Protocol Analyzer. Step by step instructions for where to go to get the Free Software to run your own personal Protocol Analyzer. Downloading instructions and Installation instructions.
Capturing Protocol Traces. Learn how to Capture network traffic - the magic that makes the network run.
Displaying Captured data. View the network traffic you capture to unlock the magic of the network. Find out who is talking to who and what they are downloading.
Customizing a Protocol Analyzer's settings. Customizing makes the Protocol Analyzer easier to use because it has all the preferences you set. We'll go through the preferences and their settings to explain what they are used for.
Filtering to capture what you want. Most traffic on a network is routine - Learn how to capture just the network traffic that you want to see with Capture Filters. Sometimes you've captured everything going across a network connection and don't want to have to look at thousands of frames on information to find what you want. To find what you want we will use Display Filters to weed out what you don't want to see.
This course will apply to using many brands of Protocol Analyzers. Although this Course is taught with a Free Protocol Analyzer - The lessons taught are significantly relevant to learning how to use any Protocol Analyzer.
Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish.
An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools
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1.0 CEUs
Course Description
How to utilize a Protocol Analyzer to troubleshoot LAN traffic.
This Course is intended for Network Professionals, Network Administrators or Anyone who wants to start learning more about what's going on their network connection. A Protocol Analyzer allows you to capture and display traffic on your network connection.
It is a beginners guide to installing and using a Protocol Analyzer.
This Course will cover:
Downloading, installing software for the Protocol Analyzer. Step by step instructions for where to go to get the Free Software to run your own personal Protocol Analyzer. Downloading instructions and Installation instructions.
Capturing Protocol Traces. Learn how to Capture network traffic - the magic that makes the network run.
Displaying Captured data. View the network traffic you capture to unlock the magic of the network. Find out who is talking to who and what they are downloading.
Customizing a Protocol Analyzer's settings. Customizing makes the Protocol Analyzer easier to use because it has all the preferences you set. We'll go through the preferences and their settings to explain what they are used for.
Filtering to capture what you want. Most traffic on a network is routine - Learn how to capture just the network traffic that you want to see with Capture Filters. Sometimes you've captured everything going across a network connection and don't want to have to look at thousands of frames on information to find what you want. To find what you want we will use Display Filters to weed out what you don't want to see.
This course will apply to using many brands of Protocol Analyzers. Although this Course is taught with a Free Protocol Analyzer - The lessons taught are significantly relevant to learning how to use any Protocol Analyzer.
To take the courseUsing a Protocol Analyzer students need to start with a basic understanding of Networks and Protocols.
Participants also need to Download and Install Free software available on the Internet to your PC to complete the assignments and tests. To help with learning more about protocols - a Network Associates Communications Protocol Poster and an Agilent Technologies Protocol Poster in PDF format is provided.
The goal for this class is to allow Network Professionals, Network Administrators or anyone who wants to start learning more about what's going on on their newtwork connection to use a Protocol Analyzer to troubleshoot and diagnose network problems.
This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this
online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and
CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.
Certificates awarded by the instructor will vary and are based upon student merit.
Any awards you earn are considered unofficial (or temporary) unless you decide to make the award official.
To make an award official, there is a $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and shipping of a hard copy of the certificate as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Transcript Service.
Official awards include a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award you earned for a lifetime (great for employers
to verify your achievement).