Ethereal PDML to Sequence Diagram Conversion Tutorial

Wireshark (Ethereal) PDML to Sequence Diagram Conversion Tutorial Page 1 Wireshark (Ethereal) PDML to Sequence Diagram Conversion Tutorial Exporting to PDML from Wireshark (Ethereal) VisualEther requires the Wireshark (Ethereal) logs to be exported to the PDML XML format. This requires the following steps: 1. Invoke Wireshark (Ethereal). 2. Use the "File > Open" command to open the example Wireshark (Ethereal) log "Web Browsing Ethereal Capture.bin" located in the “Examples\Web Browsing” directory in the VisualEther installation directory (typically "C:\Program Files\EventHelix.com\VisualEther Protocol Analyzer\Examples\Web Browsing"). 3. Now invoke the "File > Export > as XML PDML (packet details file)" Wireshark (Ethereal) menu. 4. Name this file as "Web Browsing Ethereal Capture.pdml.xml". (Note that the file should be given a .pdml.xml extension.) Ethereal PDML export problem In some releases of Ethereal the Export to PDML functionality is broken. An error dialog box, similar to the one on the right, is shown. The problem has been addressed in the latest release of Wireshark (Ethereal has been renamed Wireshark). The new release can be downloaded from: http://www.wireshark.org/download.html Generating Sequence Diagrams The next step is to generate Sequence Diagrams output from the PDML file: 1. Double click on the VisualEther icon. 2. Select the Wireshark (Ethereal) PDML file that was generated in the previous ...