Wednesday, August 21, 2013

MIMIC SNMP Simulator and HP NNMi

This shows a small simulated network of 250 SNMP agents simulated with
MIMIC SNMP Simulator discovered by HP Network Node Manager.

MIMIC simulated devices from different vendors and types.
We have posted some of the images here.

In these images you can see that NNMi has discovered all the
devices and is displaying a nice topology of various routers
and switches. You can drill down and see the detailed device
configuration.

You can also see that it is graphing counters at real-time and they
are increasing at a predictable rate set by MIMIC Simulator. It is
very easy to create variations in counters using the MIMIC GUI or
a script.





Wednesday, August 14, 2013

MIMIC SNMP Simulator: MPLS network discovered by CA Spectrum

This post describes a network available for download in
 MIMIC SNMP Simulator's network library: a Juniper network in  an
MPLS configuration.

The MPLS topology diagrams show 3 MPLS networks, red, green and
blue, with all MPLS instances discovered by CA Technologies' Spectrum.

Each of the PE routers serves multiple MPLS network points of presence.
For example, R2 hosts the red and blue VRFs as well as the green VPLS.
Each MPLS instance is indexed by a different SNMP community string.
The VPLS topology includes 1 MPLS VPLS; the mBGP VPN topology
includes 2 MPLS VPNs.



Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Pushing the Network Management Scalability Limits

This is for all providers of network management applications.

Submit your applications to us for the scalability testing. We are looking to run your network
management applications against MIMIC SNMP/NetFlow Simulator with 50,000 to 100,000
simulated nodes.

Once tested, we will provide you the results and create a demo. We can publish the results
or stay confidential, at your discretion. Publishing will greatly improve the visibility of your
application.

Contact us at marketing@gambitcomm.com and let's get started.

Monday, July 29, 2013

Large networks with IBM Tivoli Network Manager

We have recently simulated increasingly large networks with MIMIC SNMP Simulator and discovered them with IBM Tivoli Network Manager.

First, a 1000 node network with 181 routers and switches, the rest end systems:



Time to discover the network: 32 minutes













Next, a 3000 node network with 525 routers and switches:




Time to discover the network: 1 hour 32 minutes




























And a 5000 node network with 617 routers and switches:





Time to discover the network: 9 hours 24 minutes











































Finally, a 7000 node network with 1200+ routers and switches:




Time to discover the network: 15 hours 31 minutes










 
















MIMIC allows you to easily test scalability of your network management application.




Friday, June 28, 2013

MIMIC SNMP Simulator exports network with 20000 devices

MIMIC SNMP Simulator ran the 20000 agents on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 instance, and the devices were discovered by Avaya Visualization Performance & Fault Manager (VPFM) over the internet.

The network consists of about 20 routers, 1000 switches, and the rest are servers.

Avaya VPFM needed 12 hours to discover and layout the network.

Nearly 1 million interfaces are monitored.





























Friday, June 7, 2013

Gambit computes for the common good

Gambit participates in the World Community Grid to fight AIDS,
Cancer, Malaria, Schistosoma, Leishmaniasis, etc with spare 
CPU cycles on our cloud servers.

You too can contribute CPU cycles for solving tough problems.
 

Monday, May 13, 2013

Device42 Chooses MIMIC Simulator

Device42 Chooses MIMIC Simulator Suite for QA & Customer Support of

Comprehensive Data Center Management Software

"Device42 is a comprehensive solution to manage the IT
assets in the server room,  and outside the server room with
IP address management, centralized password management
and application dependency mappings. Device42 software
makes it easy for IT Infrastructure managers and network
administrators to document data centers, servers and
networks and gives them un-paralleled insight into IT
Infrastructure as a whole. To verify their new features and to
better support customers, device42 is using MIMIC SNMP
Simulator to supplement their physical test lab.

...

With MIMIC, device42 reduces the time to deliver product updates to the customers while
ensuring high product quality and reducing capital expenditures.

...

It has saved thousands of dollars in hardware expenses and significant amount of time in
QA and customer support. ", Raj Jalan, Founder and Chief Architect, device42 llc"

Read the case study (PDF) .