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SixHat Technologies LAB
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ABOUT SixHat
LAB
The SixHat LAB, code named "Sombrero", is an independent
Virtual NM LAB focused on testing and evaluating
Network Management products and solutions. By
combining industry leading Virtual Network Emulation
and Network Management products, we are able
to test evaluate and implement the latest NM
products and provide unique proven solutions
to our customers. SixHat Technologies carefully
tests and evaluates all products in a secure LAB
environment before they become part of the 6HT
NM Solutions Suite. The LAB provides the perfect
Virtual Network environment for IT and Network
managers to test and compare different NM products
and solutions before making important and costly
decisions.
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Network Management Products test and evaluations
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Full Real-Time product demos
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NM product comparisons
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Network Management solutions evaluations
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Full NM product evaluation assistance
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Full NM solution assistance
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::: SixHat LAB NM
Products
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Full
IT Services Management Services Management (ITIL)
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Configuration Management
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Application Management
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Performance Management
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System and Service Management
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If you are interested in becoming
a LAB NM product partner please contact the 6HTLab at info@sixhattech.com |
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6HT
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Partner Products
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Gambit
Communications (MIMIC Simulator)
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MIMIC Virtual Lab creates
a real world lab environment with a network of Cisco Routers and Switches. It
gives hands-on learning experience without buying expensive equipment.
MIMIC Virtual Lab is for beginners interested in familiarizing themselves
with the complex environment and for intermediate or expert users looking to
sharpen their skills and move to a higher level. It gives a safe environment
to practice. You don't have to worry about bringing down the equipment/network
and affecting other users.
MIMIC gives Network Engineers an ability to practice for certifications instead
of just reading instructions. It enables Training organization to give a lab
to students with the classroom training or e-learning courses. Students can
interact with Routers and Switches, just like with real devices.
The Lab
Interact with the routers and switches, just like real devices:
- Network of 11 devices
- Cisco Routers (2501, 2524, 4500 and 7531)
- Cisco Switches (2916, 3548)
- Five end systems
- LAN, WAN and Serial links
Users can Telnet in to any of these devices from local or remote
machines as if they are connecting to real devices. Any number of
users can connect at a time. It fully supports Cisco IOSŪ software
and SNMPv1, v2, v2c, v3.
Device Operations
- 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 required for certifications
Lab Operations
- Start/Stop devices, individually or in a group
- Save/Load a configuration of the network
- View configuration information of a device or the entire network
- Troubleshoot
- View the topology with connections and addresses
- Open Telnet sessions
- Context sensitive help
You can also discover and cofigure using Cisco Network Management applications
such as CiscoWorks, CiscoWorks 2000, CiscoView and CEMF (CDM, GSR Manager),
just like real devices. All the changes done using IOS are visible via management
applications and vice versa.
If you are interested in creating your own devices and topology,
MIMIC Simulator tool kit is also available. You can simulate
as many as 10,000 devices in a lab. It includes MIMIC Recorder to
record Cisco devices to help create the lab topology you need.
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HP
OpenView OVO/U (Operations for UNIX)
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Operations for UNIX discovers, monitors, controls and reports on the
availability and performance of your heterogeneous, large-scale IT
environment. It consolidates information for all IT components that
control your business: network, systems, storage, databases, and
applications. With its service-driven approach, it shows what IT
problems affect your business processes, helping you to focus on what's
most important for your company's business success.
Features
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- Reliable, secure, and
scalable management infrastructure based on intelligent, autonomous
agents and flexible manager-of-manager communication
- Immediate
visibility into the status of application services and into the
business impact of IT infrastructure availability and performance
problems
- Consistent policy configuration and fault management process across a broad range of operating system platforms and applications
- Customizable event filtering, consolidation and enrichment reduce the noise of unimportant events
- Customizable Java-based operator console for remote, role-based operations management
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HP
OpenView NNM (Network Node Manager)
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Network
Node Manager Advanced Edition is designed to manage any size complex
switched network and to quickly pin-point network problems through
dynamic root cause analysis (dRCA) and virtual network service state
determination.NNM AE improves network availability and
efficiency through the automatic discovery of the physical network and
virtual network services, intelligent monitoring, dynamic root cause
analysis, and alarm management.Network Node Manager Advanced
Edition provides an out of the box solution that is powerful enough to
manage your dynamic IP network and easily extendable to manage new
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- Automatic discovery and inventory of you physical network, virtual network services, and the complex relationships between them
- Quickly identify and assess the impact of problems with dynamic root-cause analysis (dRCA) and service state determination
- Increase efficiency through built-in intelligence, targeted polling, and automated actions
- Reduce total cost of ownership through faster meantime-to-repair cycles
- Manage
new services and technology by expanding your network management
functionality with Smart Plug-ins for Network Node Manager Advanced
Edition
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HP
OpenView OVPI (Performance Insight)
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HP OpenView Performance Insight is designed to answer the questions that result from service level management:
- Are you currently meeting your service level agreements?
- What is the availability and performance of your services and the networks, systems and applications that make up that service?
- If a service is not performing well, what components are adversely affecting it?
- What components of a service are likely to fail and when?
HP OpenView Performance Insight provides the required insight into your
management data for successful service level management. HP OpenView
Performance Insight is a highly scalable and customizable reporting
tool that collects, analyzes and summarizes management data from
networks, systems and services. HP OpenView Performance Insight can
help you implement service level management by monitoring and reporting
on the systems, networks and applications that make up that service.
The reports that are created can easily be customized for your
customers or service managers. Not only does HP OpenView Performance
Insight include out-of-the-box reports on management data collected and
generated by popular HP OpenView tools such as HP OpenView Network Node
Manager, HP OpenView Performance Agents and HP OpenView Internet
Services, but it can also report on a wide range of network protocols
and devices. You can customize the out-of-the-box reports, create new
reports and pull in new sources of data to report on. HP OpenView
Performance Insight gives you the flexibility you need to report on the
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The information generated by HP OpenView Performance Insight helps you: - Ensure the availability and top performance for your systems, networks and services
- Diagnose performance problems using recent and historical data
- Plan for appropriate capacity, maximizing the utilization of your current resources
- Identify over- and under-utilized elements
- Understand how the systems and networks are affecting the performance of your services
- Document
current network performance for internal use and customer service level
agreements (SLAs) through executive summary, capacity planning,
forecast, hot spots, quick view, top ten, service level, and
cusomtizable reports.
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Cisco
Systems (CiscoWorks 2000)
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CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS) is a
suite of powerful management tools that simplify the configuration,
administration, monitoring and troubleshooting of Cisco networks. It
integrates these capabilities into a world-class solution for improving
the accuracy and efficiency of your operations staff, increasing the
overall availability of your network through proactive planning, and
maximizing network security. These tools provide IT organizations with
an integrated system for sharing device information across
applications. This rich data environment allows the automation of
device manageability tasks, visibility to the network's health and
capability, and identifying and localizing network trouble.
CiscoWorks LMS provides:
- A centralized system for sharing device information across all LMS
applications, improving manageability and system-wide awareness of
changes in the network
- Network discovery, topology views, end-station tracking and VLAN management
- Real-time network fault analysis with easy-to-deploy device specific best-practice templates
- Hardware and software inventory management, centralized configuration tools, and Syslog monitoring
- Network response time and availability monitoring and tracking
- Real-time device, link, and port traffic management, analysis, and reporting
- Flexible license model allowing CiscoWorks LMS to be effectively
utilized in a wide range of enterprise deployments without restricting
functionality or expandability
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Fidelia
(NetVigil)
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Fidelia offers easy to use, real-time fault and performance management products
for your IT infrastructure. Both NetVigil as well as the entry level Helix offer
end to end monitoring of your applications, networks and servers
with a strong focus on relating the performance of the service with the underlying
server or network performance.
Key features:
- Runs on Linux, Windows, Solaris
- Integrated SQL database for storing trend data for several years
- Smart data aggregation for manageable database sizes without compromising
accuracy
- Predictive reporting on upcoming problems
- Powerful correlation graphs between servers, networks and applications
- Web interface offers minimal learning, ubiquitous access
- Automatic setup and discovery- operational within minutes
- Instant drill down from real-time status to historical trend and statistics
Business Containers
Fidelia's unique object oriented "container" technology allows you
to relate your applications and underlying servers or network to a service such
as eCommerce, payroll, finance, manufacturing, etc. This unique technology allows
you to correlate your business to your IT infrastructure and identify the impact
of your IT infrastructure to the delivery of business service to your customers.
Real-time Reporting
Fidelia's strength is in its reports and statistical information, ranging from
simple top-N tables to complex correlation graphs and trend reports using regression
analysis. You can move seamlessly between fault and performance reports, and
the real-time reporting engine displays statistics and reports within seconds
of your requesting the report.
The wealth of information available such as the
95th percentile, the trend analysis (days to threshold), the historical graphs
and histograms allow you to make informed decisions about the weaknesses and
performance of your IT infrastructure.
Smart Notification and Alerts
Fidelia's smart notification engine (SME) automatically suppresses transient
flaps, and prevents alarm floods based on topology and service dependencies.
The multi-stage alarm engine provides a comprehensive escalation process to
send notifications based on how long a device has been in warning or critical
condition, and on time of day and status on repeated polling. You can email,
page or run a custom script to restart a process based on the length of time
that a device has been in that state. The smart suppression engine uses complex
heuristics to avoid false suppression of alarms in redundant networks.
Extensible API for Custom Monitors
Both NetVigil and Helix have a plugin framework which allow you to interface
your custom scripts and monitors with these products, enabling notifications,
historical data collection and trend reports.
NetVigil automatically discovers all relevant metrics for enterprise applications
such as Oracle, SQL Server, Exchange, Citrix, Apache, IIS, Weblogic, MySQL, etc. and starts reporting on relevant
metrics right away. Most applications can be monitored using agentless technology, cutting down on the
deployment and management costs. Additionally, the URL transaction monitor can simulate end user transactions
and highlight the performance of services as experienced by the user.
Netvigil's server monitoring module can monitor Unix, Windows, IBM
mainframe systems and report on metrics such as disk utilization,
context switches, memory utilization, process or thread count, raid
controllers, etc. Netvigil interfaces seamlessly with
Compaq Insight Manager and Dell OpenManage agents providing a seamless
dashboard across your entire hetrogenous server infrastructure.
NetVigil's network monitoring module has support for Cisco, Juniper,
3Com, Nortel, Foundry and other routers as well as firewalls from
Netscreen, Fortinet, Cisco or Checkpoint. The network reporting module
gives trend and real-time status on line utilization, route flaps,
WLAN and other metrics.
Service Provider Module
NetVigil
SP has lots of powerful features especially for service providers such as SLA
reports, multi-user functionality which allows sharing reports with your customers,
localized polling and aggregation using smart DGEs so that traffic is constrained
within a datacenter, API to interface with other OSS products such as Remedy.
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