Portable Product Demonstrations
Simulation Toolkit helps to create different network
scenarios instantly. The network configurations are portable across all OS.
This enables marketing and sales to set up powerful "live" demonstrations of
their network management products at trade shows or at customer premises,
easily and effectively. Reduced demo set up time and absence of bulky
equipments results in reduced cost of sales.
Evaluation before Purchase
Users can easily yet exhaustively evaluate new management
products prior to purchase and customize them after purchase. The Jython
script APIs bundled with the product can be used to evaluate the capability of
the management products.
Quick and Efficient Support
With Simulation Toolkit , the support staff do not have to
visit the customer premises for problem reproduction. Its recording tool can
record the customer's network environment and reproduce the problem quickly to
provide fast and efficient support.
Virtual Multi-Vendor Network Environment on a Single PC
Developers and testing departments can test management
applications by simulating large, complex network environments with SNMP, TL1,
TFTP, FTP, Telnet and IOS devices. Full control over the values returned by
the SNMP and TL1 agents and the ability to generate SNMP traps and TL1
autonomous messages on demand, enable thorough testing of applications. This
ensures greater product quality.
Efficient Training
Simulations can be used to train network operators,
administrators, and technicians. Training groups can create realistic and
flexible networking scenarios by setting up user defined Jython script.
Reduces Product Development Costs
Simulation Toolkit has a positive impact in reducing the
cost of developing, testing, and delivering management applications. It
reduces the investment in equipment, support infrastructure, and testing. By
facilitating easy demonstrations, it reduces the cost of selling and enhances
profitability of the business.
Reduces "Time-to-Market"
Management application developers can develop their
applications in parallel with agent development through simulation of device
prototypes. This enables quick implementation of the management products, thus
significantly shortening the "time-to-market" and the associated costs.
Efficient Network Management Staff
Customized simulations can be used to train network
operators, administrators, and technicians. Efficient training results in well
trained network management staff with better understanding of the network
management products and protocols.
Delivers High Quality Management Applications
Simulation of complex network scenarios enables complete
testing of network management applications. This enhances product quality and
results in a reliable and rugged management applications.
Enables Easy and Successful Demonstrations
Portable device configurations ease the task of setting up
customer demos to show the capabilities of the management application. With
options to enable different permutations and combinations of network
configurations rapidly, the Simulation Toolkit helps in such presales
activities at trade shows and customer locations.
Platform-Independent Network Environment and Scalability
Simulation Toolkit creates the complete virtual network
environment that can run on any industry-standard Intel-based PC or Sun Sparc
with a variety of network interfaces. It can even run on the same machine that
runs the management application. Large scale enterprise networks can run
simultaneously on a single PC.
Simulating Real Networks
The Network Recorder records real time network
devices simultaneously. The recorded network can be replayed instantly in the
Network Designer. The recorded configuration can also suitably be modified to
create test configuration variations.
The Trap Recorder records SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c traps by
listening for traps at the specified port. The output of the trap recorder
will give you the traps in the order they were received, with timestamps and
the variables included in the trap PDU. The recorded traps can be stored in
XML files and replayed in the SNMP agent simulator and network simulator as
request-based, threshold-based or time-based traps.
Simulating Dynamic Network Behavior
Simulation Toolkit can simulate addition of new devices
(including bulk additions), start and shutdown of devices, change of read-only
and read-write variables, generation of traps and autonomous messages,
addition and deletion of rows dynamically for provisioning. These simulations
can be enabled dynamically without disrupting the simulation process and thus
helps to create a real-life scenario with high scalability. The toolkit
enables querying of the same simulated device by multiple network management
applications.
Automated Network Simulation
The Network Automation Wizard offers the ability to automate
the most common tasks performed by the network devices. You can configure
tasks to be performed on any device in the network and set triggers to
instigate each task. Based on the tasks configured, the simulator
automatically generates scripts that schedule and trigger the activities. The
automated network can be started from command line.
Simulation of Cisco IOS Software
Simulation Toolkit supports Cisco IOS Software Simulation
as part of its existing Network Simulation suite. It allows you to
simulate Cisco routers and Cisco Switches. CLI support is provided to access
the Cisco IOS Software.
TFTP, FTP and Telnet Support
Simulation Toolkit supports TFTP client and server and FTP
client implementation to facilitate transfer of files between the manager and
agents using TFTP and FTP protocols respectively. This facility can be used
for testing the managers' statistics collection, software download, upload and
download of configuration and event files etc. Telnet support enables
execution of telnet commands on the simulated devices, from command line.
Fault Management Testing Using Trap Stormer
Simulation Toolkit offers the Trap Stormer, an exclusive
tool to storm SNMPv1/v2c traps at burst and normal modes. Trap storms can be
generated to validate the effective event handling of the manager application.
Jython Scripting Support
Simulation Toolkit provides an intuitive GUI to model and
define inter-relationship among MIB variables, among TL1 commands, and across
devices in the network.
The toolkit offers powerful built-in SNMP, TL1, CLI and
Telnet script APIs to automate a complete network environment. The intuitive
UI and powerful script APIs, combined with the flexible scripting capabilities
of Jython, offers a highly versatile environment in simulating advanced
network behavior and trap generation. This enables complete control of the
virtual network environment.
Agent and Network Management through RMI Interface
RMI (Remote Method Invocation) is implemented in Simulation
Toolkit to manage the simulated SNMP and TL1 agents and network behavior from
a remote client program. RMI's unique capabilities to load and execute
user-defined tasks at runtime, helps in test case automation of manager
applications.
Dynamic Configuration of IP Address
Simulation Toolkit provides the facility to dynamically
configure IP addresses when starting each agent instance in the network. This
facility is supported in Windows NT, 2000, XP and Linux / Solaris OS.
Pack and Play
Any network created in Simulation Toolkit can be packaged
and installed in any other system where Simulation Toolkit has been installed.
This is useful to give demonstration of management applications at customer
premises or during trade shows without the need for configuring and carrying
of devices.
Enhanced Performance
Simulation Toolkit provides performance tuning options,
configurable buffer size, and registration of selected OIDs for effective
utilization of memory. This ensures maximum network performance, especially in
case of large enterprise networks.
Design and Play: The Simulation Experience
Simulation Toolkit offers a sophisticated yet simplified
simulation experience in just two steps: Design the virtual network in the
Network Designer and play the simulation. To accomplish this task, the toolkit
provides a complete range of easy-to-use visual tools that make simulation
simple right from specifying the input for simulation until packaging and
installing the simulated agent.
Network Simulator
To design and simulate a network with SNMP, TL1, TFTP, FTP,
Telnet and IOS devices, on a single PC. Supports Jython-based scripting to
model agent behavior and express inter-relationship among MIB variables and
across devices.
SNMP Agent Simulator
To simulate an SNMPv1/ v2c/v3 agent (or device) with user
configured data or recorded agent values. Supports Jython-based scripting to
model agent behavior and express inter-relationship among MIB variables.
TL1 Agent Simulator
To smulate a TL1 Network Element with user configured data .
Supports Jython-based scripting to model agent behavior and express
inter-relationship among TCS commands.
SNMP Trap Stormer
To configure and send traps, to test the reliability of your
management application for receiving any number of traps at the specified
interval.
Network Recorder
To record real SNMP networks. The recorded network can be
instantly replayed in the network simulator.
Trap Recorder
To record real traps. The recorded traps can be replayed in
the trap configuration dialog of the SNMP Agent Simulator and Network designer
tools.
