Applications for MIMIC
R&D: Virtual "test network" environment
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.
Sales: Portable product demonstrations
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.
Support: Bring back customers environments
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.
Training: Flexible training facility
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.
HP OpenView Education and Training group teaches an advanced Network Node Manager course that uses MIMIC Simulator for students that allows them the opportunity to experience common deployment problems. [more]
Evaluation: More thorough product evaluations
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.
Examples
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.
Large Networks
- IBM Tivoli
- CA Unicenter TNG
- HP OpenView
- HP OpenView advanced edition
- Aprisma SPECTRUM
- Asante Intraspection
- Bay Networks Optivity
- CiscoWorks
- InteropNet 98 Atlanta
- IBM Nways Campus Manager
Element Managers
- FORE Systems ForeView
- Xylan X-Vision
- Bay Networks Optivity
- Castle Rock SNMPc
- HP AdvanceStack Assistant
- Cisco Systems CiscoView
- Avaya Cajunview
- Avaya SMONMaster
- Nortel Passport
- Extreme Networks EPICenter
- Foundry Networks IronView