Upper Pane (Physical Endpoint List)
Lower Pane (Relating tabs)Endpoints are all the objects communicating in the network. Colasoft Capsa divides all nodes by physical address and IP address. This tab provides a great number of statistics on physical endpoints to help you find useful information on MAC addresses. For example, you can find the physical endpoints with the largest traffic and with that to check if there is any broadcast storm or multicast storm in network. This tab contains the following components:
The Physical Endpoint tab will be invisible if you select any IP address item in Physical Explorer or IP Explorer in of the Node Explorer window.
Endpoints are displayed in a hierarchical structure. You can click any column header to sort the list to check if there is any abnormal traffic.
The Physical Endpoint List contains the following items:
The following table lists all the components on the toolbar:
| Show Switching | Click to switch list layout between hierarchical and tiled style. |
| Export | Clicks to export all items in the list to a *.txt format file to disk. |
| Details | Click to show or hide the lower pane. |
| Add to Filter | Click to open the Packet Filter dialog to make a new filter based on the selection in this pane. |
| Add to Name Table | Click to add an alias for the selected node to the Name Table. |
| Locate | Click to locate the current node in the Node Explorer window. |
| Refresh | Click to refresh the list or set the refresh options. |
| Node Counter | Shows the number of all physical endpoints in the list. |
Right-click a column header, you can select more columns to show in the list. Choose Default to get showing columns back to default.
The following table lists all the items in the menu of this list:
| Packets in New Window | Sends the packets relating to the selected node to a new packet decode window. |
| Copy | Copies the selection in original format to the clipboard. |
| Copy Column | Copies the selected column in original format to the clipboard. |
| Customize Column | Shows/hides columns or changes the position of columns. |
| Export Node Statistics | Saves all of the physical endpoint statistics to disk as a *.txt format file. |
| Find... | Finds an item in the list. |
| Make Filter... | Opens a new dialog to make a new filter on the basis of the selection. |
| Make Graph... | Generates a graph in the Dashboard tab based on the selected item. |
| Make Alarm... | Generates an alarm item based on the selected item. |
| Add to Name Table | Add an alias for the selected node to the Name Table. |
| Address Resolve... | Resolves the host name of your selected address item. |
| Locate in Node Explorer | Locates the current node in the Node Explorer window. |
| Ping | Invokes the build-in Ping Tool. |
| Packet Player | Invokes the build-in tool Packet Player. |
| Packet Builder | Invokes the build-in tool Packet Builder. |
| MAC Scanner | Invokes the build-in tool MAC Scanner. |
| Select All | Selects all items in the list. |
| Refresh | Refreshes the current list. |
Only Physical Conversation tab displays on the lower pane when any node in Protocol Explorer root and Physical Explorer root selected in the Node Explorer window.
Read the Physical Conversation to learn how to use this tab.
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