WireShark - 9.6. Configuration Profiles

9.6. Configuration Profiles
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9.6. Configuration Profiles

Configuration Profiles can be used to configure and use more than one set of preferences and configurations. 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 Figure 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”)
- PRES Users Context List (pres_context_list) (Section 9.11, “PRES Users Context List”)
- SCCP Users Table (sccp_users) (Section 9.12, “SCCP users Table”)
- SMI Modules (smi_modules) (Section 9.13, “SMI (MIB and PIB) Modules”)
- SMI Paths (smi_paths) (Section 9.14, “SMI (MIB and PIB) Paths”)
- SNMP Users (snmp_users) (Section 9.15, “SNMP users Table”)
- User DLTs Table (user_dlts) (Section 9.16, “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 selections 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 common to all profiles.

Figure 9.10. The configuration profiles dialog box

New

This button adds a new profile to the profiles list. The name of the created profile is "New profile" and can be changed in the Properties field.

Delete

This button deletes the selected profile, including all configuration files used in this profile. It is not possible to delete the "Default" profile.

Configuration Profiles

You can select a configuration profile from this list (which will fill in the profile name in the fields down at the bottom of the dialog box).

Profile name:

You can change the name of the currently selected profile here.

	Used as a folder name
	The profile name will be used as a folder name in the configured "Personal configurations" folder. If adding multiple profiles with the same name, only one profile will be created.

Illegal characters

On Windows the profile name cannot start or end with a period (.), and cannot contain any of the following characters: \ / : * ? " < > |

On Unix the profile name cannot contain the ' / ' character.

OK

This button saves all changes, applies the selected profile and closes the dialog.

Apply

This button saves all changes, applies the selected profile and keeps the dialog open.

Cancel

Close this dialog. This will discard unsaved settings, new profiles will not be added and deleted profiles will not be deleted.

Help

Show this help page.

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