CCNP Security Cisco Secure Firewall and Intrusion Prevention System Official Cert Guide

Chapter 8

Capturing Traffic for Advanced Analysis

This chapter provides an overview of the following topics:

• Packet Capture Essentials: This section illustrates the threat defense security engines and their components. The illustrations help you understand the root cause of a packet drop by the threat defense.

• Best Practices for Capturing Traffic: In this section, you learn some of the best practices for keeping system performance at the optimal level while capturing traffic.

• Capturing of Packets Using Secure Firewall: This section demonstrates the process of capturing traffic from the data interfaces of a threat defense using the management center GUI.

The objectives of this chapter are to learn about

• The packet capture utility on the management ...