Friday, May 4, 2012

MIMIC SNMP Simulator 12.00 Performance Report

"The goal of this report is to help you make a choice of operating system platform that best performs for MIMIC SNMP Simulator. We compare the 2 most popular choices – Windows and Linux, both on common hardware (a quad core Intel system) and on the Amazon (AWS) cloud.
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Previous reports detailed comparisons between different versions of Linux and Windows. This is the latest performance report for MIMIC 12.00 on the best-performing Linux and Windows platforms. This latest test features current hardware (quad core Intel) and 1 Gb networking between MIMIC system and management system. We focus on 64-bit executable performance, since that is becoming the common case. It is also the first test that includes Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud instances to compare to natively running operating systems.
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The report is available to our current customers.


Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Tremors in your network

Afraid of tremors in your network? Just like earthquakes in the real world, network disruptions will have serious impact on your business. Test your network management for network earthquakes like in the real world.

The UCSD earthquake simulator has been in the news lately.  Just like an earthquake simulator lets you prepare for the worst earth tremors, MIMIC Simulator lets you prepare for the worst tremors in your network.

By allowing you to "shake" a simulation of your network elements, you can cost-effectively devise responses to outages. MIMIC SNMP Simulator can be quickly programmed to create disaster scenarios to gauge your management systems' response.

Monday, April 16, 2012

MIMIC Simulator verifies high frequency polling

High frequency polling matters for network performance management in financial services for SevOne.
Ensure that your management environment supports high frequency polling by testing against MIMIC Simulator.

MIMIC can simulate thousands of SNMP, NetFlow and sFlow based devices, and supports upwards of 25,000 requests per second on a common PC platform and thousands of flows per second. Cisco, SevOne, Lancope and many other NetFlow based management vendors use MIMIC for testing their applications.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

New network for MIMIC 12.00

FYI, we have just released a new network for MIMIC SNMP Simulator 12.00
containing 20 IBM Blade switches. The discovered network from CA Spectrum
is below.


















The same network discovered by CastleRock's SNMPc.


Tuesday, April 3, 2012

New MIMIC SNMP Simulator version 12.00

FYI, we are announcing immediate availability of MIMIC 12.00
with these new features:

- sFlow Simulator in addition to Netflow and IPFIX

- customize simulations without programming

- load agent configurations incrementally

- GUI improvements to make features more accessible

- training videos

- more MIBs, more simulations

For more details, see our press release.



Friday, February 17, 2012

MIMIC: unlimited number of networks

The power of simulation is that you can reconfigure your universe at will.
In this case we demonstrate reconfiguring 3 networks in a matter of 3 minutes
in MIMIC SNMP Simulator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRSt9hYyc4Q

Imagine what it would take to do this in a physical environment!

Friday, February 10, 2012