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CommView
Remote Agent is a companion product
that can be used for monitoring network traffic remotely. All you
have to do is to install Remote Agent on the target computer, and
then use CommView to connect to Remote Agent. Once you are
connected and authenticated, you can start monitoring as if you
were there.
Important:
This chapter describes how to use CommView to connect to Remote
Agent and capture traffic remotely. For detailed information on
Remote Agent installation and configuration, please refer to the
help file that comes with Remote Agent. It is highly recommended
that you carefully read the Remote Agent documentation prior to
using it. CommView Remote Agent can be downloaded from
our site.
To switch to remote
monitoring mode, click File
=>
Remote
Monitoring Mode. An additional toolbar
will appear in the CommView main window next to the main toolbar.
If you are behind a firewall or proxy server, or using a
non-standard Remote Agent port, you may need to click on the
Advanced
Network
Settings button to change the port
number and/or enter SOCKS5 proxy server settings.
Click on the
New
Remote Agent Connection button to establish a new
connection, or click on the Load
Remote Agent Profile toolbar button to load a
previously saved Remote Agent connection profile. A previously
saved profile may also be loaded from the New Remote Agent
Connection window.
A Remote Agent Connection
window will appear where you can enter the IP address of the
computer running CommView Remote Agent into the IP address input
area, enter the connection password and click on the
Connect
button, and if
the password is correct, a connection will be established. You will
then see the Link
Ready message in the status bar,
and the adapter selection box will list the remote computer's
adapters.
Now is the best time to
configure the capturing rules using the Rules
tab. It's very
important to configure the rules correctly so that the volume of
traffic between the Remote Agent and CommView doesn't exceed the
bandwidth limit on either side of the connection, or you will
experience noticeable lag. Be sure to filter out unnecessary
packets (see more on this topic below). You can also apply a custom
set of capturing rules to this connection and override the current
rules defined in CommView by checking the Override
current rule set box, clicking on
the Edit
Formula button and entering the
rules formula in the field below. The formula syntax is the same as
the one used in
Advanced
Rules. Once you're ready to
start monitoring, select the network adapter from the list and
click the Start
Capture
toolbar
button. CommView allows you to save the Remote Agent Connection
settings as a connection profile for quick and easy access in the
future. Click on the Save
Remote Agent profile toolbar button in the New
Remote Agent Connection window and enter a name for the
file.
CommView will start to
capture the remote computer's traffic as if it's your local network
traffic; there is virtually no difference between using CommView
locally and remotely. When you are done with remote monitoring,
just click on the Stop
Capture toolbar button. You can
then change the adapter or disconnect from Remote Agent by clicking
the Disconnect
toolbar
button. To return to the standard mode, click File
=>
Remote
Monitoring Mode, and the additional
toolbar will disappear.
Please note that CommView
can work with multiple Remote Agents simultaneously. You can open
several remote connections, each having its own settings and an
independent set of rules and collect the traffic from remote
network segments in one CommView instance.
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