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MIMIC® SNMP Simulator

Published on : Tuesday 30-11--0001

MIMIC SNMP Agent Simulator creates a network of up to100,000 SNMP manageable devices. You can create any SNMP based device with any number of public or private MIBs to run a large variety of device configurations with your SNMP management application. It lets you generate thousands of traps to simulate disaster scenarios.

Functionality     

MIMIC Features

1. Multiple Agents in One Box

• Family of SNMP simulators with a variety of sizes geared to any budget.
• Simulate up to 100,000 SNMP agent instances on one computer.
• Each agent instance has its own IP (or IPv6) addresses on any subnet.
• Each SNMPv1 agent has independent read and write SNMP community strings.
• Each SNMPv3 agent has independent USM and VACM parameters. (MD5, SHA, SHA-2 / RFC 7860 Authentication, DES, AES, AES-192, AES-256 Privacy).
• Each agent instance has its own notion of uptime, eg. one can be running for 100 days, while another has just started.

2. Customized SNMP Simulation

• Select any subset of supported MIBs for each agent instance.
• Use any of the 2000+ pre-compiled MIBs for devices from the leading networking companies.
• Run any mix of the supplied actual device simulations from the device library, among them are Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, HP, Marconi, 3Com and many more.
• Build your own SNMP simulation with the topologies and devices you need.

3. SNMP Agent Instance Configuration

• Configure each SNMP agent instance individually or collectively.
• Control each MIB object instance of each SNMP agent instance independently or as relationships.

4. Extensible Environment

• Add any MIB to the SNMP simulation by compiling it with the MIMIC Compiler
• Create basic simulations of actual devices with the MIMIC Recorder
• Extend the simulation with standard scripting languages.
• Customize the simulations with a powerful simulation language.

5. Real-time Modifiable Simulations

• Use the MIB browser to manipulate each MIB object simulation independently at run-time.
• Configure the simulation via batch scripts for automated regression testing or hands-off product demonstration.
• Pause simulations to investigate a particular problem and resume at any point in time.

6. Configurable SNMP Trap Generation

• Configure arrival rate, cutoff time, variable values, etc. on a per Trap basis in real-time and generate Trap storms.
• Take snapshots with the Trap Wizard to replicate exact Trap sequences.

7. Recording Environment

• Take snapshots of real world scenarios and simulate them almost immediately.
• Discover large networks with Discovery Wizard.
• Create dynamic simulations over time with Snapshot Wizard.

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