The Customer Designed Agent Service

UHC can now provide you with a running q3 compliant agent simulator from a consistent GDMO-specification in a week.

Possible Applications of an agent simulator

TMN Management application developers often find them selves in the dilemma that they have no agents to test their management applications against. An agent simulator may act as a preliminary test and verification tool for your management application development.

Agent simulators may speed up the development process by allowing the management application developers to test and verify their applications in parallel with the development of the actual agent-application as they will enjoy the almost real "look-and-feel" of the final agent.

The TMN equipment provider may also use the agent simulators as stand-alone applications which they can send to their customers to enable them to test the interworkability with the customer's own management systems without the need of access to the actual equipment or even the final agent.

Our Customer designed agent service may also be a means for you to test the tools and services of UHC at a very low cost and risk.

Default features of our agent simulators

An agent simulator from UHC will provide the following generic features:

• CMIS Create including
  • initialisation of object attributes from sources according to X.720
  • selection of namebinding from sources according to X.720
  • various value validations
  • storing in persistent object database
  • generation of object creation notification
• CMIS Delete including
  • validation of delete operation on all contained objects
  • auto-deletion of all contained object instances
  • generation of object deletion notification
  • deletion from persistent object database
• CMIS Set including
  • validation of set'ability according to the GDMO spec.
  • resolution of attribute groups into single attributes
  • generation of attribute value/state change notifications
• CMIS Get including
  • validation of get'ability according to the GDMO spec.
  • resolution of attribute groups into single attributes
• Test support including
  • automatic self-testing by scripts. The agent may also work as a manager
• Extensive protocol tracing
  • graphical MIB browser
• Notification reception (also from extern sources), forwarding and logging

Check [Protocol stacks] for a description of the CMIP stacks supported by the agent simulator.

Besides these generic features, we also apply our fast growing library of standard ADK's, which contain a large amount of already implemented advanced object behaviour, like statistics collection and reporting, event classification, M.3100 connection establishment etc.

How to get it

The procedure is as follows:

1. You send us a request on [e-mail: Please use our question form] describing your GDMO specification and a list of the standards that it requires.
2. We confirm the request and inform you of what we need, e.g. full GDMO specification including those standards that we do not have access to.
3. You send us the required material via e-mail (or place it on an ftp-server where we can fetch it).
4. We check your GDMO specification with our tools and mail you any adjustments we need to do.
5. We send you a running agent via e-mail a week(+holidays) after the reception of a consistent GDMO. Included in the package is also a Graphical MIB Browser for Windows NT and the full GDMO specification in HTML (World-wide-web) format.