SPV User Guide

• Main terms and concepts
  • General Conventions
    • Byte metric unit
  • Zones & Fallbacks
    • Principles
    • Zone fallback
  • Application concept
    • Application definition
    • Examples
  • IP Merging
    • Principle
    • Example
  • Concept of Conversation
    • Objective & Definition
    • Types of conversations
  • Source / Destination Matrix
    • Principles of Source/Destination Matrix
    • Top down analysis
  • Data Aggregation
    • Rationale
    • Process
• Deployment
  • How to integrate Performance Vision in your network?
    • Preliminary steps
    • Positioning the probe
    • Choosing a traffic capture method
  • How to capture traffic?
    • Port mirroring
    • Network TAP
  • Supported Protocols
    • Non IP Protocols
    • IP Protocols
    • Limitations
  • Port-mirroring and duplicated packets
    • Introduction
    • Detail
    • Some examples of duplicated packets / non-duplicated packets
    • Removal of duplicated packets
    • Deduplication algorithm
  • Distributed Architecture
    • How does the distributed infrastructure work?
    • Where is data being merged / segregated?
    • What happens if a poller does not answer?
    • How configure a poller?
    • Limits
    • Prerequisites
    • Adequate / non-adequate implementations
• Configuration
  • Hardware
  • System
    • Installing the license
    • Connect to the probe
    • Pulsar
    • Configure the probe
    • Access Performance Vision
    • How to configure User Interface language ?
  • SPV Functional Configuration
    • User Management
    • Zone configuration
    • Application configuration
    • Business Critical applications
    • Business Critical Networks
    • Reports
    • SNMP
• Interpreting the results
  • Business Critical Application Dashboard
    • Business Critical Application Dashboard Capabilities
  • Business Critical Networks Dashboard
  • VoIP Module
    • Supported protocols
    • Basics of VoIP
    • Quality of service & MOS
    • Prerequisites
    • VoIP Views
  • Application dashboards
    • How can it help?
    • Components
    • Drill down dashboards
    • Interactions
  • SPV Comparison tables
    • Objectives
    • Network Performance Table
    • Application Performance Table
  • TCP Errors / Events
    • Objectives
    • TCP Errors
    • TCP Events
  • Packet level analysis
    • Objectives
    • Manual packet capture
    • Automated packet capture (“AutoPCAP”)
  • Interpretation Guidelines
    • Objectives
    • Scenario guidelines
    • Additional metrics
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • Firefox freezes randomly on some pages
  • Aggregate level changes when browsing from tables to charts
  • How can SRT be greater than DTT ?
  • How can we have 0 packets and no traffic at all on a conversation?
  • What is this timeout column (in Analysis/TCP Error)?
  • Why are some DNS request names missing?
  • Some TCP conversations are reported twice, what’s wrong?
  • Pcap files generated by tcpdump are (mostly) empty
  • How to do complex searches on domain names?
  • What about Open Source?
  • Standard TCP Session
• Known issues
  • Configuration
  • Interface
  • Various
  • Sniffer
• Glossary