Scheduled Packet Capture Settings

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The Scheduled Packet List Settings page inside the Settings dialog:

Use this page to set the schedule and directory for capturing network data that you don't want to analyze immediately.

You can choose here to start and stop capturing data manually or via the integrated scheduler.

Use the day of week check boxes to enable or disable capturing of data on the corresponding days.

The Start time sets the time when the first data file will be created. The End time indicates the time on and after which no new packet data files will be captured on the same day. So if you set 10:00 as start time and 12:00 as end time for capturing data that is started every 60 min. for 60 min., you will get 2 data files every day. One running from 10:00 till 11:00 and one running from 11:00 till 12:00. If you use the same period for 45 min. captures that are started every 45 min., you will get 3 files (10:00-10:45, 10:45-11:30, 11:30-12:15).

Here you set the frequency for creating new data files (every ... minutes) and the duration of each capture (for ... minutes). The capturing schedules may overlap (e.g. start a new file every 30 minutes for 60 minutes).

Note: If you start capturing via the command line together with the one-time (-o) option, all schedule settings except for the duration will be ignored (see Scheduled Packet Capturing).

The File Prefix will be used together with the start time and date when the data file is saved to disk. The format of the filename is: '[File Prefix] YYYY-MM-DD HHhMM.txt' (e.g.: 'Network Data 2007-02-01 10h00.txt' for a file that was started on February the 1st, 10:00). This format of date and time ensures a chronological order of the files in alphabetical sorted explorer windows or directory listings.

In the Directory edit box you can set the directory in which the reports will be stored. If the directory does not exist, it will be created when the first file is created. Click the button on the right to open a directory selection dialog.