User Guide

9.6. Configuration Profiles
Configuration Profiles can be used to configure and use more than one set of preferences and con-
figurations. Select the Configuration Profiles... menu item from the Edit menu, or simply press
Shift-Ctrl-A; and Wireshark will pop up the Configuration Profiles dialog box as shown in Fig-
ure 9.10, “The configuration profiles dialog box”. It is also possible to click in the "Profile" part of
the statusbar to popup a menu with available Configuration Profiles (Figure 3.19, “The Statusbar
with a configuration profile menu”).
Configuration files stored in the Profiles:
• Preferences (preferences) (Section 9.5, “Preferences”)
• Capture Filters (cfilters) (Section 6.6, “Defining and saving filters”)
• Display Filters (dfilters) (Section 6.6, “Defining and saving filters”)
• Coloring Rules (colorfilters) (Section 9.3, “Packet colorization”)
• Disabled Protocols (disabled_protos) (Section 9.4.1, “The "Enabled Protocols" dialog box”)
• User Accessible Tables:
• Display Filter Macros (dfilter_macros) (Section 9.8, “Display Filter Macros”)
• GeoIP Database Paths (geoip_db_paths) (Section 9.9, “GeoIP Database Paths”)
• K12 Protocols (k12_protos) (Section 9.10, “Tektronix K12xx/15 RF5 protocols Table”)
• SCCP Users Table (sccp_users) (Section 9.11, “SCCP users Table”)
• SMI Modules (smi_modules) (Section 9.12, “SMI (MIB and PIB) Modules”)
• SMI Paths (smi_paths) (Section 9.13, “SMI (MIB and PIB) Paths”)
• SNMP Users (snmp_users) (Section 9.14, “SNMP users Table”)
• User DLTs Table (user_dlts) (Section 9.15, “User DLTs protocol table”)
• Some recent settings (recent), such as pane sizes in the Main window (Section 3.3, “The Main
window”), column widths in the packet list (Section 3.16, “The "Packet List" pane”), all selec-
tions in the "View" menu (Section 3.7, “The "View" menu”) and the last directory navigated to
in the File Open dialog.
Other configurations
All other configurations are stored in the personal configuration folder, and are com-
mon to all profiles.
Figure 9.10. The configuration profiles dialog box
Customizing Wireshark
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