Microsoft® Windows Server 2003: Administrator’s Companion

Using Network Monitor

You use Network Monitor to capture and display statistics about the frames that a server receives from the LAN. Network Monitor troubleshoots networking problems and helps you analyze network traffic. You can install Network Monitor only on a server.

Network Monitor consists of two components—Network Monitor itself and the Network Monitor driver—both of which must be installed on the server that is running Network Monitor so you can capture frames. The Network Monitor driver enables Network Monitor to receive frames from the network adapter. The driver can be installed only on machines running Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000.

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The Systems Management Server (SMS) version of Network Monitor 2 puts the ...