Downloading a PCAP from a Management Center device
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Downloading a PCAP from a Management Center device

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Article ID: 171205

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Products

Management Center

Issue/Introduction

In some situations during the troubleshooting there is a need to run packet capture on Management Center.

This can be done through CLI via #pcap command.

 

 

Environment


Management Center 3.x and 4.x

 

Resolution

In modern Management Center (3.x+) versions packet capture can be downloaded via Management Console GUI

  • Access Management Center GUI and go to  Administration -> Logs
  • Packet capture should be visible as "Packet Capture" Log Type:

 

 

  • Select the file and click on "Download"
  • Note that if there were multiple packet captures run, these will be included into single ".zip" archive

 

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