MIMIC Simulator 9.20

MIMIC Simulator 9.20 is a special software that is designed for creating a real world lab environment with SNMP simulation. It provides an interactive hands-on lab for quality assurance, development, marketing, sales, evaluation, deployment and training of enterprise management applications. It creates a customizable virtual environment populated with devices like routers, hubs, switches, probes, cable modems and workstations.

The MIMIC Simulator standard package comes with many tools, wizards, ready-to-go libraries and APIs.

1.Tools
MIMICView - User friendly GUI to manipulate the simulations
MIMIC Simulator - Allows the simulation of an enterprise network on a workstation
MIMIC Recorder - Captures a "snapshot" of the device/network and creates the simulations
MIMIC Compiler - Compiles any SMI-based MIB
MIMIC Shell - Tcl-based command-line interface
2.Wizards
MIMIC Wizards provide a user-friendly way to accomplish complex tasks.
Discovery Wizard - Records large networks
Snapshot Wizard - Takes multiple snapshots of a device over time to create more realistic simulations
Trap Wizard - Captures trap sequences and replays them in the simulation
Simulation Wizard - Creates simulations for devices under development
Topology Wizard - Customizes different network topologies
MIB Wizard - Imports and compiles new MIBs
Update Wizard - Updates software/data over the Internet
3.Libraries
MIMIC is pre-packaged with data to quickly setup out-of-the-box virtual labs. It ships with large libraries of simulated devices, networks, and MIBs from the leading networking companies.
4.APIs
You can customize simulations using Tcl, C++, Java and Perl languages to tap in to the full power of the simulator.

Major Features:

1. 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.
   
2. 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.
   
3. 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.
   
4. 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.
   
5. 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]
   
6. 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.
   
7. 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.