Network device simulator

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1996-07-03

1999-05-25

Teska, Kevin J.

39518202, G06F 1130

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059076968

ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus for creating the appearance of a network device and its communications, and in particular, an SNMP agent and its SNMP communications. A device dataset contains a plurality of counter variables having instance values which change over time and describe the behavior of the device on the network. A characterization file is created from the device dataset based on correlations among the variables and their instance values. The characterization file is used to generate predicted instance values for a simulated device.

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