Installing the Network Monitor Agent and Driver

When you install the Network Monitor agent, the protocol driver is also installed automatically. You must have both the agent and the driver installed if you want to use the agent with Network Monitor to conduct remote captures of network traffic to and from a computer running Windows 95.

However, if you want only to view the performance counters in System Monitor and you want to prevent anyone from accessing the local computer by way of the Network Monitor agent, you can choose to install only the protocol driver.

Note

The Network Monitor application uses NetBIOS to control the remote-capture computer. If you are using the IPX/SPX-compatible protocol to connect the agent and manager computers, you must enable NetBIOS support for IPX/SPX, as described in Chapter 12, "Network Technical Discussion."

To install the Network Monitor agent on a single computer

1. In the Network option in Control Panel, click Add.
2. In the Select Network Component Type dialog box, double-click Service.
3. In the Select Network Service dialog box, click the Have Disk button.
4. In the Install From Disk dialog box, type the path to the ADMIN\NETTOOLS\NETMON directory on the Windows 95 compact disc, and then click OK.
5. In the Select Network Service dialog box, click Microsoft Network Monitor Agent in the Models list, and then click OK.

To install only the Microsoft Network Monitor protocol driver

1. In the Network option in Control Panel, click Add.
2. In the Select Network Component Type dialog box, double-click Protocol.
3. In the Select Network Protocol dialog box, click the Have Disk button.
4. In the Install From Disk dialog box, type the path to the ADMIN\NETTOOLS\NETMON directory on the Windows 95 compact disk, and then click OK.
5. In the Select Network Protocol dialog box, click Microsoft Network Monitor Driver in the Models list, and then click OK.

For information about installing the Microsoft Network Monitor agent and protocol driver by using custom setup scripts, see Chapter 5, "Custom, Automated, and Push Installations." For information about using Network Monitor for performance analysis, see Chapter 17, "Performance Tuning"; for information about using Network Monitor for network protocol analysis, see Appendix E, "Microsoft Systems Management Server."