I’m written a whitepaper on some of the ideas behind NSM-Console, it also explains some of the basics of usage and what it is originally designed for, you can download the whitepaper directly or get it from the papers section on my site.

Excerpt from the abstract:

“With the proliferation of dozens of different packet analysis tools, a network
traffic analyst has a dizzying amount of tools to choose from to analyze
network data. As the number of tools will only increase, a framework to
unite and manage each of these tools is necessary. This framework should
provide a central and uni?ed way to change the options for each of the
tools. My solution to this problem is NSM-Console, or the Network Security
Monitoring Console. “