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Enterprise-wide Network Management applications typically communicate
with many manageable devices. In order to exercise the application, a
laboratory must setup a facsimile of the expected environments. This
translates in to setup, maintenance, support and management of a lab
within the budget constrains.
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<h3><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>1. Wide variety
of SNMP agents and MIBs </b> </h3>
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<li>SNMP agents are embedded in all kinds of equipment, producing an explosion
of interoperability cases. </li>
<li>New versions are released more and more frequently. </li>
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<b>2. Difficult to setup large networks </b> <br>
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<li>The large quantity
of devices creates a combinatorial nightmare of scenarios. </li>
<li>Not only must the
equipment itself be purchased, maintained, upgraded, etc., but also
the infrastructure to support it (lab space, power supplies, cabling,
etc.). </li>
<li>Large labs increase electricity consumption and cooling overhead.
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>3. High point-of-entry
cost for NMS</b><br>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Too expensive to
buy all types of network devices. </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Support costs are
higher. </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Difficult to justify
purchase of equipment for testing/evaluation purpose. </font></li>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>4. Incomplete testing</b>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Even a representative
sample of devices cannot guarantee minimum interoperability in more
complicated environments. </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Cannot test all
the different versions/combinations. The time to boot different firmware
or to reconfigure a device is prohibitive. </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Difficult to test
various failure symptoms. Pathological scenarios may even require physical
interaction, such as jiggling a wire or unplugging a connector. </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Long-term testing
requires a too much time. </font></li>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>5. Expensive to plan
for the future </b> </font>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Future network
growth is costly to test with current equipment.</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Extrapolation of
resource requirements is risky.</font></li>
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<p><font color="#900000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#7D1D3C"><a name="top"></a></font></b></font><font color="#7D1D3C" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>MIMIC's
Solutions:</b></font> </p>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>1. Immediate Cost
Savings </b></font> </p>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">No need to buy
extra laboratory equipment (hardware, agents, software). The cost factor
of lab equipment is reduced by a factor of up to 1,000.</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Leverage existing
laboratory equipment by running MIMIC alongside the real device. Instead
of buying ten of the same devices, buy one real device, and simulate
the remaining nine. </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Reduced support
costs for test equipment. Rather than supporting different types of
devices, it is only necessary to support MIMIC on industry-standard
hardware (Intel-based PCs or Sun Sparc). </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Time savings dramatically
impact labor costs, especially early in the development cycle. MIMIC
can be employed in the prototyping and design stages. It only took us
minutes to setup the simulations used to demo the <a href="mimicapp.shtml" target="mainFrame">Applications</a>
on this site.</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Allows instantaneous
hypothetical growth scenarios with minimal additional expense. Time
can be fast-forwarded in MIMIC with a few mouse-clicks and keystrokes.
Agents can easily be cloned. This helps in realistic future resource
planning.</font></li>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>2. Reduced Setups
and Maintenance </b></p>
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<li>No need for multiple
network connections, power supplies, etc. Physical lab space and infrastructure
requirements are reduced 100-fold. </li>
<li>No need to set up WAN links. MIMIC simulates network delay and runs with most network
interface cards. It even runs over PPP on a serial line.</li>
<li>Energy savings of smaller lab means less environmental impact.
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>3. Complete Testing
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Test management
applications with a wide variety of agents instead of just one. </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Test multiple versions
of each device simultaneously. </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Configure pathological
conditions easily in order to investigate even the trickiest configurations.</font></li>
</ul>
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>4. Flexible Simulation
of Heterogeneous Network </b></font> </p>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Run MIMIC on any
industry-standard Intel-based PCs or Sun Sparc with a wide variety of
network interfaces. </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Run MIMIC on your
laptop, and take your lab on the road for customer support calls or
trade shows. </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Configure MIMIC
with any IP address, even on multiple subnets.</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Simulate different
failure symptoms, such as network delays, retransmits, packet losses,
etc.</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Change the configuration
easily in order to simulate a variety of scenarios.</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Use the recording
environment to setup existing scenarios easily.</font></li>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>5. Complete Control
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Control the entire
environment, even multiple MIMIC boxes, with one remote console. </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Manipulate parameters
at run-time to simulate different network conditions. </font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Change time instantaneously
by "fast-forwarding" or even "rewinding."</font></li>
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<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>6. Reliable Test
Environment </b></font> </p>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">No need to worry
about test equipment failures.</font></li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Reduce the number
of points of failure.</font></li>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Simulate up to
10,000 Agent instances on one computer. </font> </li>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Each Agent instance
has its own IP address on any subnet, and independent read and write
SNMP community strings. </font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Each Agent instance
has its own notion of uptime, eg. one can be running for 100 days, while
another has just started. </font></li>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>2. Customized MIB
Configuration </b></font>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Select any subset
of supported MIBs for each agent instance. </font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Use any of the
1000+ pre-compiled MIBs for devices from the largest networking companies.
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Run any mix of
the supplied actual device simulations, among them an Ascend router,
a Cisco Catalyst 5000 switch, a HP LanProbe or a Windows NT system.
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>3. Agent Instance
Configuration </b></font>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Configure each
Agent instance individually or collectively. </font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Control each MIB
object instance of each Agent instance independently or as relationships.
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>4. Extensible Environment
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Add any MIB to
the Agent by compiling it with the <a href="compiler.shtml" target="_self">
MIMIC Compiler </a> </font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Create basic simulations
of actual devices with the <a href="recorder.shtml" target="_self"> MIMIC
Recorder </a> </font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Create customized
simulations with a powerful simulation language. </font></li>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>5. Real-time Modifiable
Simulations </b></font>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Use the graphical
user interface to manipulate each MIB object simulation independently
at run-time. </font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Configure the simulation
via batch scripts for automated regression testing or hands-off product
demonstration. </font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Pause simulations
to investigate a particular problem, and resume at any point in time.
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>6. Configurable Trap
Generation </b></font>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Configure arrival
rate, cutoff time, variable values, etc. on a per trap basis in real-time.
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>7. Recording Environment
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<ul>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Take snapshots
of real world scenarios and simulate them almost immediately. </font></li>
</ul>
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[<a href="#a2" target="_self">Sales</a>] [<a href="#a3" target="_self">Support</a>]
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<b>R&D: Virtual "test network" environment </b> </font> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br>
Developers can simulate QA test cases or recreate customer environments.
MIMIC enhances product reliability by simulating large, complex, multi-vendor
network environments, thus ensuring greater product quality and more responsive
customer service. <br>
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Portable product demonstrations</b> <br>
Marketing and sales can demonstrate network management product capabilities
easily, reliably and effectively. MIMIC helps create different network
scenarios instantly. It simplifies demo setup, enhance portability, and
reduce cost-of-sales. <br>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b> <a name="a3"></a>Support:
Bring back customers environments</b> <br>
Support staff don't have to visit the customer location and try to reproduce
the problem for days. With MIMIC's recording tool, they can record and bring
back the customer's environment and work more efficiently. <br>
<br>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b> <a name="a4"></a>Training:
Flexible training facility</b> <br>
Instructors can deliver more effective network management training.
MIMIC is a portable enterprise network-in-a-box, enabling students
to investigate routine and unforeseen network management scenarios.
<br>
<br>
HP OpenView Education and Training group teaches an
<B>advanced Network Node Manager course </b>
that uses MIMIC Simulator for students that allows them
the opportunity to experience common deployment problems.
<A href="http://www.hp.com/education/courses/u5089s.html" target=_blank>
[more]
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b> <a name="a5"></a>Evaluation:
More thorough product evaluations </b> <br>
End-users can easily yet exhaustively evaluate new management products
prior to purchase, and customize them after purchase. MIMIC scripts automate
testing by simulating network conditions in the virtual MIMIC environment.
<br>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b> <a name="a6"></a>Examples</b><br>
The following sections show how easy it is to setup a variety of scenarios
with the MIMIC Agent Simulator. Notice, all the examples are unretouched
actual sessions in our labs using leading Network Management Applications.
The agents that these applications are talking to are all simulated using
MIMIC. You can click on each image to reveal both a more detailed picture,
and commentary about interesting features of the simulation.</font>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <a href="large_nets.shtml" target="mainFrame">Large
Networks</a></font>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">CA Unicenter
TNG </font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">HP OpenView </font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">HP OpenView advanced edition</font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Aprisma SPECTRUM</font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Asante Intraspection
</font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Bay Networks
Optivity </font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">CiscoWorks </font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">InteropNet 98
Atlanta </font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">IBM Nways Campus
Manager </font></li>
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Element Managers</a> </font>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">FORE Systems
ForeView </font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Xylan X-Vision
</font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Bay Networks
Optivity </font>
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Castle Rock SNMPc
</font>
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Avaya Cajunview
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Avaya SMONMaster
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Nortel Passport
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Extreme Networks EPICenter
<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Foundry Networks IronView
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<li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">HP Network Node
Manager </font></li>
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Manager </font>
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