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Guardian
Learn how Guardian provides comprehensive asset inventory and network visibility for OT and IoT environments.
User Guide
Information and resources about the main features of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do from the user interface (UI).
Personal settings
The personal settings page lets you do actions that are specific to your profile.
Other actions
Request a custom trace
The profile settings menu lets you request a trace specifying a custom packet filter.

Guardian
Learn how Guardian provides comprehensive asset inventory and network visibility for OT and IoT environments.
- Introduction
  An overview of Guardian.
- Installation Guide
  Information and resources on how to install Guardian, and the different options and settings that are available.
- Administrator Guide
  Information and resources about the Administration section of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do in this part of the software.
- User Guide
  Information and resources about the main features of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do from the user interface (UI).
  - Sensors
    The Sensors page lets you view all of the sensors that you have in your system.
  - Alerts
    The Alerts page shows all the latest alerts in the system. It lets you view the alerts in different modes, and carry out actions on the alerts.
  - Assets
    The Assets page shows all the physical components and systems in the local network environment and their associated details. It also lets you perform actions on those assets. Depending on the nodes and components involved, assets can range from a simple personal computer to an operational technology (OT) device.
  - Queries
    You can use the Nozomi Networks Query Language (N2QL) syntax to create complex data processes to obtain, filter, and analyze lists of information from the Nozomi Networks software.
  - Smart Polling in Guardian
    The Smart Polling page lets you view and manage Smart Polling.
  - Arc in Guardian
    Arc™ is a host-based sensor that detects and defends against malicious or compromised endpoints, and insider attacks. You can use Arc sensors to aggregate data for analysis and reports, either on-premises, or in the Vantage cloud.
  - Network
    The Network page gives you access to multiple pages that show nodes, links, sessions in tabular format and graphs and traffic in a graphical format.
  - Process
    Process is a set of repeatable functions that a business does to deliver a core value.
  - Reports
    The Reports page lets you manage, generate, schedule and view reports.
  - Assertions
    The Assertions page shows all the assertions and lets you configure them.
  - Time machine
    Time machine lets you load a snapshot, which is a previously saved state, and go back in time, to analyze the data from a past situation. You can load a single snapshot and use the platform as usual or load two snapshots and compare the user interface to highlight changes.
  - Vulnerabilities
    The Nozomi Networks software continuously discovers vulnerabilities in monitored assets.
  - Administration
  - Personal settings
    The personal settings page lets you do actions that are specific to your profile.
    - Other actions
      - Change your password
        The profile settings menu lets you change your password.
      - Edit an OpenAPI key
        The profile settings menu lets you edit your OpenAPI keys.
      - Generate an OpenAPI key
        The profile settings menu lets you generate an OpenAPI key.
      - Clear your personal settings
        The profile settings menu lets you clear your personal settings that are stored in the local browser local.
      - Request a continuous trace
        The profile settings menu lets you request a trace that has only the disk size constraint.
      - Request a custom trace
        The profile settings menu lets you request a trace specifying a custom packet filter.
      - Show requested traces
        The profile settings menu lets you show all the traces that you have requested.
      - Download a requested trace
        Once you have requested a trace, and it is ready, you can download it.
    - Zone filters
      The personal settings menu lets you filter zones.
- Maintenance Guide
  Information about the maintenance tasks of Guardian, to help you administer and maintain the solution in a production environment.
- Print format documentation
  A list of all the print-format documentation that is available for Guardian.

Request a custom trace

The profile settings menu lets you request a trace specifying a custom packet filter.

Procedure

In the top navigation bar, select
A menu shows.
Select Other actions.
Select Request custom trace.
A dialog shows.
To set the maximum packet size, in the Trace max size (packets) field, enter a value.

Note:
The default size is 5000 packets.
To set the maximum duration of the trace, in the Trace max duration (seconds) field, enter a value.

Note:
The default value is 60 seconds.
Note:
The Packet filter field is automatically populated with a Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) that captures the packets to/from the selected node, but you can customize this.
If necessary, customize this field.

Note:
You can select BPF syntax help to show more information on BPF syntax.

Note:
You can select BPF examples to see some examples.
Select Send trace request.

Results

The trace has been requested.