OSTU - Customized Wireshark Graphs with Open Office (by Tony Fortunato)

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Tony Fortunato is a Senior Network Specialist with experience in design, implementation, and troubleshooting of LAN/WAN/Wireless networks, desktops and servers since 1989. His background in financial networks includes design and implementation of trading floor networks. Tony has taught at local high schools, Colleges/Universities, Networld/Interop and many onsite private classroom settings to thousands of analysts.

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QuickstartHow to Create

Customized GraphsFrom

Wireshark Trace FilesUsing

Open Office

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We Want To Go From Text To Graphical

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Add a Column

In this example I want Bytes per second, so I’ll have to go to Wireshark -> Preferences->Column and add Packet Length (bytes) and move it up to the 3rd entry.

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Select The Appropriate Time Format

Set the time to Time of Day and Seconds

Tip; When selecting Time Of Day and Seconds, use the space bar and the menu will not go away

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Create a CSV File You need to Export your Trace File to a CSV format

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OpenOffice Calc; Open The CSV File

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Import Settings Make sure you have selected Comma

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Subtotals And Graphs

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Group your Subtotals

Click on the 2 to display your subtotals

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Format

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Remove some text

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Graph

Select your data Go to Insert -> Chart

Press the create button

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Its up to you to get creative

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