X Plugins - How Do I Get The Windows NIC Device Name Used By Netprobe?
If you’re using X-plugins to monitor a Windows host, identifying the NIC device name required by the sampler is tricky, as it is not documented. To get the Windows NIC device name of a Windows host, go to the Netprobe binary directory, there you will find the executable Netprobe file, commonly NetprobeNT. Run the “NetprobeNT.exe -if " via the command prompt and it should list the host’s NIC devices.
Here’s an example detailing the steps to get the NIC device name; Go to the Netprobe binary directory; Geneos - X Plugins - How Do I Get The Windows NIC Device Name Used By Netprobe?
Open the command prompt from the NetprobeNT folder, Shift+right-click; Open command window here; Geneos - X Plugins - How Do I Get The Windows NIC Device Name Used By Netprobe?
Run the command “NetprobeNT -if” or “NetprobeNT -ifconfig” and it will show you a list of NIC device names. The NIC device names are the lines that starts with \Device.. Geneos - X Plugins - How Do I Get The Windows NIC Device Name Used By Netprobe? NOTE: The Npcap packet capture library needs to be installed on the host. If Npcap is not installed using WinPcap API-compatible mode, then the Npcap installation directory must be added in the PATH environment variable or the DLL_PATH registry variable.