Profiles are like customized virtual environments, which saves significant amount of time while auditing/troubleshooting a network.
To create a profile, follow these steps:
- Right-click on the
Profile
column inStatus Bar (bottom right corner of window)
:
- Click on + in the pop-up dialog:
- Now, choose any profile you wish to use as a template (if any) and type the name of the new profile.
- And then, click on
OK
.
Now, in the status bar, you will see the new profile has been activated. The changes that you will make in this profile stays here, for example, you create capture/display filters, change protocol preferences, and change color preferences, and so on.
Also, importing and exporting profiles is easy just copy and paste the Profile configuration files in a Wireshark directory to use.