MIMIC® Virtual Lab - Enterprise (Price: $2,499)

MIMIC Virtual Lab includes many ready labs. Each of the have different set of "test exercises" connected to them. You can interact with the devices, such as routers and switches, just like real devices:

• Choose from multiple labs, load/simulate one and switch between them;
• LAN, WAN and Serial links;
• Connect using SNMP or Telnet to any of these devices from local or remote machines;
• Any number of users can connect at a time; and
• Connect using SNMPv1, v2, v2c, v3; TFTP, Telnet and Cisco IOS® software.
• Run "test exercises" connected to different devices to generate different test scenarios.

Device Operations for Cisco devices

• Logging in/out;
• Get into and out of different modes - User, Privileged, Configuration, Interface;
• Set passwords, IP addresses, clock rates, hostname, bandwidth;
• Assign routing protocols - RIP, IGRP;
• Ping other devices on the network;
• Save/load configurations;
• Boot using flash or TFTP protocol;
• Configuration of CDP, PPP, Frame Relay and OSPF protocols; and,
• Many other fuctions.

Lab Operations

• Start/Stop devices, individually or in a group;
• Save/Load a configuration of the network;
• MIB Browswer to view MIB information for an individual device;
• View the individual device or the entire topology configruation information;
• Troubleshoot;
• View the topology with connections and addresses;
• Open Telnet sessions; and
• Context sensitive help.

You can also discover and cofigure using management applications such as HP OpenView, CA Unicenter, CiscoWorks, CiscoWorks 2000, CiscoView and CEMF (CDM, GSR Manager), just like real devices.

If you are interested in creating your own devices and topology, MIMIC Simulator tool kit is also available. You can simulate as many as 100,000 devices in a lab. It includes MIMIC Recorder to record devices to help create the lab topology you need.

Exercises

Each lab comes with a set of test exercises, which let you create many pathological conditions in your simulated network. These are test conditions that would commonly be performed while evaluating or testing network management applications.

Some of the sample exercises for networks are:

• Heavily loaded network with many port activities;
• Lightly loaded network with less activity;
• Router (or sub-net) down, which generates many other actions;
• Trap storm, which causes many MIB variables to increase significantly for multiple devices at the same time;
• Random increases and decreases in the MIB variables (In, Out and Error octets) periodically (30 second interval); and,
• Devices going down and coming up -- several devices issue Link Up/Down traps at the same time.

Some of the sample exercises for devices are:

• Device down;
• Interface down;
• Port parameters increment significantly;
• Heavily loaded device with packet drops or delays;
• Lightly loaded device;
• Periodic change in load -- high/medium/light;
• Trap storm;
• Configruation changes: device configuration variables, such as IP address and Mask;
• Printer device: paper out trap; and,
• Bad link -- packet drops every fifty packet.