Network Analysis, Visualization and Reporting Integrated with Wireshark

View video introduction  Overview Pilot is a powerful network analysis tool with an accessible, visually-oriented user interface designed to increase your troubleshooting effectiveness. Pilot is fully integrated with Wireshark, allowing you to leverage your team's existing expertise and to increase efficiency and effectiveness in diagnosing your networking issues. Views are the core analysis and visualization paradigm in Pilot. A View is instantiated by dragging it over a source (device or file). This triggers the Pilot network analysis engine to execute the associated analysis on the source file or device providing the results in preformatted, easily readable displays. Pilot's industry-leading drill-down analysis feature results from the fact that graphical elements within Views are "selectable." These selections can be thought of as a "visual filtering" step to which a new View can be applied, thereby "drilling down" into the traffic source. Pilot's comprehensive reporting features are fully integrated with its extensive visualization capabilities. Pilot User Interface Overview Tool Tip Report Ribbon View

Integrated with Wireshark

Pilot has been designed by a team that includes Wireshark's creator, Gerald Combs. It is the only product in the industry to offer full integration with Wireshark. Pilot enhances your ability to perform complex filtering operations that are key to effective network analysis. The integration with Wireshark makes Wireshark's extensive collection of capture and display filters easily available throughout Pilot. Pilot makes it possible to select a traffic source (live or trace file) and send it to Wireshark, making Wireshark's prodigious dissector library for deep packet analysis available for ready use within Pilot. Pilot increases network troubleshooting possibilities. You can process very large trace files by isolating interesting portions of the trace file using Pilot's powerful analysis engine before sending to Wireshark. Pilot works with standard pcap files. Trace files created by Wireshark and other open source tools, including pcap files generated on Linux or Mac systems, can be opened easily with Pilot.

Powerful Network Analysis Engine

Pilot is based on a powerful network analysis engine that can perform multiple, simultaneous analyses on traffic sources, whether they are live or trace files. Pilot's network analysis engine is capable of opening very large trace files and high-bandwidth live sources. Pilot's network analysis engine is integrated with Wireshark, leveraging Wireshark's analysis capabilities for charting and filtering.

Pilot Views: Flexible Analysis and Visualization Paradigm

Views are the core analysis and visualization paradigm in Pilot. Pilot contains over 70 views providing a broad range of protocol support for both wireless and wired networks. Views consist of a collection of display components called Charts. An almost limitless variety of Views can be obtained by using Views in conjunction with Wireshark's capture and display filters, highlighting the benefits of Pilot's tight integration with Wireshark. View documentation is available online as a "tool tip," obtained by a simple mouse-over on the View icon. Each tool tip contains a description of the analysis displayed in each of the Charts within a View and additional Usage Information.

Pilot Charts: Innovative Visualization Components

Pilot offers a complete collection of Charts including bar, pie, and strip charts, conversation rings, and grids. Charts are the innovative interactive display components of Pilot's Views. Pilot's Charts are interactive and can be resized or moved. Most importantly, users can perform visual selections on elements within a chart, such as selecting individual bars within a bar chart or time intervals within a stripchart. Selection is the key to Pilot's exclusive drill-down feature.

Drill-Down: An Innovative Analysis Paradigm

Drill-down is one of the most powerful and unique features in Pilot. Drill-down occurs when the user applies a View to a source which itself is the result of a selection made within a Chart of a previously instantiated View. This powerful paradigm multiplies your analysis capabilities. Drill-down applies to both live and trace file sources. Pilot's drill-down feature allows you to analyze very large trace files, quickly guiding you to anomalous network behavior.

Unparalleled Wireless Support with AirPcap

Pilot offers unparalleled functionality and versatility when applied to wireless networks. Thanks to the integration with CACE Technologies' AirPcap adapters, Pilot is the only product to offer full multi-channel packet capture from a laptop-based system. Pilot contains a comprehensive set of 802.11 Views that can be applied directly to 802.11 wireless sources. Pilot's Channel selection user interface and functionality are unmatched. Pilot can decrypt WEP, WPA, and WPA2 (pre-shared key) 802.11 frames. Pilot, armed with the appropriate AirPcap adapter, can inject frames into your network to speed up WPA and WPA2 decryption, resulting in more effective data analysis and troubleshooting for wireless networks.

Superior Reporting Capabilities
Pilot offers a rich set of reporting facilities fully integrated with Pilot Views, enabling you to create professional reports from on-screen displays. Pilot allows you to include your own annotations in your reports and to tailor them to your customer's or manager's needs. Pilot's reports can be created in a variety of formats including Word, Excel, and pdf.