Ribbon

In an analysis project, you can find four tabs in the Ribbon. The tabs are described below:

• Analysis: Contains commonly used commands and statistics for the current project.
• System: Contains all the Local Engine Settings commands and product information.
• Tools: Contains all the integrated and external tools and tool settings.
• View: Contains commands of hide and show windows, and display format of IP address and MAC address.

You also find the Help icon on the top-right corner of the ribbon. You can click it to open help document to learn how to use the program.

You can use the mouse scroll wheel to navigate from one tab to another when the mouse pointer is over the Ribbon.

Analysis Tab

The Analysis tab contains the following groups:

• Capture: Click the Start icon to start capture packets, and click the Stop icon to stop capture packets. In Capsa WiFi, you will find a different label - Wireless Analysis. You can click Wireless network Properties icon to change AP encryption keys.
• Replay: Click the File icon to open the Packet File Management dialog box to manage the files to be replayed.
• Network Profile: Click to open the Network Profile Management window.
• Analysis Profile: Click to open the Analysis Profile Options window.
• Data Storage: Click to open the Data Storage dialog box to set up packet output and log output settings.
• Dials:
  • Utilization (%): Shows network utilization per second in percentage form as a analog dial and digits.
  • pps: Shows the number of captured packets as a analog dial and digits.
• Traffic History Chart (bps): Refreshes every second to display the total traffic utilization. Move mouse over the pane, you can see the traffic number to understand the traffic trend and peak.
• Packet Buffer:
• Buffer Map: Shows how much of the project buffer used. The total buffer size with the percentage of already used buffer is displayed below the Buffer Map.
• Export: Click this button to open a dialog box to save all packets in the buffer.
• Clear: Click this button and a prompt box appears. If you are sure to clear all packets in buffer, click Sure to clear buffer.
• Lock: Click this button, you will only see analysis data from the time you start the capture to the time you click this button. Colasoft Capsa ,however, does not stop capturing packets. Click Lock again, you will see all analysis statistics again.

If you click the Capture icon in a stopped project, all data in this project will be cleared. Need those data, you should save them to your disk then start the capture.

System Tab

The System tab contains the following groups:

• Local Engine Settings: See Local Engine Settings for details.
• Resource: See Menu button for details.
• Product: See Menu button for details.

Tools Tab

The Tools tab contains the following groups:

• Tools: See Tools for details.

View Tab

The View tab contains the following groups:

• Show/Hide: Check or uncheck the Node Explorer, Alarm Explorer and Online Resource to show or hide its corresponding window.
• Physical Address Display: Sets the display format of the physical addresses.
  • Physical Address Only: Shows the physical addresses in digits, e.g. 00:11:22:33:44:55.
  • Physical Name Only: Shows the physical addresses in alias, e.g. localhost.
  • Physical Name and Address: Shows the physical addresses in digits and their alias (if any), e.g. [localhost]-00:11:22:33:44:55.
  • Show Physical Manufacturers: Check or uncheck to hide or show the adapter vendor where displays the MAC address.
• IP Address Display: Sets the display format of the physical addresses.
  • IP Address Only: Shows the IP addresses in digits, e.g. 192.168.1.1.
  • IP Name Only: Shows the IP addresses in alias, e.g. Localhost.
  • IP Name and Address: Shows the IP addresses in digits and alias (if any), e.g. [Localhost]-192.168.1.1.