HP OpenView Agent Tester Toolkit Reduces Time to Market for Telecommunication-Management-Network Software Solutions; Customized Testing Capabilities Improve Quality, Dramatically Reduce Agent-software Development Cycle.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 1996-- Hewlett-Packard Company today introduced the HP OpenView HP OpenView was a Hewlett Packard product range consisting of an extensive portfolio of network and systems management products. In 2007 the entire HP OpenView portfolio was rebranded under the strengthened HP Software name. Agent Tester Toolkit to help telecommunication equipment and service providers bring products and services to market faster. The toolkit automatically creates a suite of tests and provides automated and interactive methods to send those tests to an agent. This automation means that telecommunication management network (TMN (Telecommunications Management Network) A set of international standards for network management from the ITU. It is used by large carriers such as Sprint, Verizon and AT&T. ) developers are able to completely test their agents without ever writing code. "Developing solutions for the telecommunications market is a complex and difficult task in a highly competitive arena," said Olivier Helleboid, general manager of HP's OpenView Program. "The Agent Tester Toolkit addresses these business challenges by helping to reduce development costs, improving quality and shortening the development cycle. OpenView technology enables our customers to do their jobs more productively than ever before." With today's announcement, HP extends the OpenView suite of telecom software-developer offerings to cover the complete development cycle. The Guidelines for the Definition of Managed Objects (GDMO (Guidelines for Definition of Managed Objects) The rules for defining the elements (objects) that are managed in a LAN (workstations, servers, switches, etc.). ) Modeling Toolkit, the Managed Object Toolkit (MOT) and the new Agent Tester Toolkit combine to enable developers to rapidly deploy effective and reliable management solutions. Using the same object specifications created by the GDMO Modeling Toolkit, which is used by the MOT to generate a standards-based default agent, the Agent Tester Toolkit automatically generates tailored tests and provides the reporting necessary to develop agents. Through the use of interactive and regression tests, the Agent Tester Toolkit will fully exercise the agent during customization and testing. The interactive test method provides the ability to incrementally test the customization of the agent, while the regression-testing method allows for a complete suite of tests to be executed, with the results being verified against the expected results. This standards-based agent creation and testing capability allows developers to deploy the highest-quality TMN solutions quickly and efficiently. The Agent Tester Toolkit is a fully integrated component of the HP OpenView family of TMN products and tools. The HP OpenView Distributed Management (DM) platform is the leading environment for building TMN solutions. The Agent Tester Toolkit uses OpenView DM runtime components for sending and receiving requests during agent development and testing. The Agent Tester Toolkit also integrates with the OpenView Developer Tools graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) to improve workflow and developer productivity. The HP OpenView Agent Tester Toolkit ensures consistency with the object-model specification by using the same GDMO object specification used to create the agent. The Agent Tester Toolkit also gives developers the flexibility to customize generated test programs, incorporating event-handling and response, error-handling and complex MIB (1) (Management Information Base) The hierarchical database used by the simple network management protocol (SNMP) to describe the particular device being monitored. MIB objects are identified using ASN.1 syntax. See SNMP, RMON, OID and ASN.1. definitions. In addition to the Agent Tester Toolkit, HP also announced that a new version of the Managed Object Toolkit, MOT 1.1, is scheduled to be available in January 1997. Enhancements added to MOT 1.1 include ease of use via a new GUI, higher-level programming through encapsulation (1) In object technology, the creation of self-contained modules that contain both the data and the processing. See object-oriented programming. (2) The transmission of one network protocol within another. of the X/Open Abstract Data Manipulation standards, and flexibility through a set of C++ classes for full CMIS (Common Management Information Services) Pronounced "c-miss." An OSI standard that defines the functions for network monitoring and control. CMIS - Common Management Information Services and ACSE ACSE - Association Control Service Element services and exposure of the in-memory MIB containment tree for object persistence. The HP OpenView Agent Tester Toolkit 1.0, expected to be available on Nov. 1, 1996, starts at $6,000. The toolkit is available on HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. (1) 9.x, 10.10 and Sun Solaris 2.5. HP OpenView offers users integrated network, system, application and database management for multivendor distributed-computing environments. Solutions consist of a broad portfolio of management products from HP and OpenView Solutions Partners and a complete set of services that help customers improve service and reduce operations costs. The HP OpenView Solution Framework provides services to application developers for the complete management of distributed networks, systems, applications and databases. HP OpenView manages Novell NetWare and Windows NT servers and PCs, and HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Sun Microsystems, NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , Bull, Silicon Graphics, Sequent and Digital Equipment Corporation computers. HP OpenView provides an open telecom platform, services and developer tools to enable rapid development of network- and service-management applications for large-scale, heterogeneous telecommunications networks. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 110,800 employees and had revenue of $31.5 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. -0- Note to Editors: (1) HP-UX 9.X and 10.0 for HP 9000 Series 700 and 800 computers are X/Open(R) Company UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) 93 branded products. HP-UX 10.20 is an X/Open UNIX 95 branded product. X/Open is a registered trademark, and the X device is a trademark of X/Open Company Ltd. in the UK and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. Windows is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. CONTACT: HP Jeffrey Scott, 408/447-0851 jeff@ccipr.com |
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