What's new

With the goal of constantly building upon and improving the management simulation experience, AdventNet Simulation Toolkit 6 offers a completely new data model that enables creation of large networks in seconds and offers enhanced network performance. In addition, it offers new tools, utilities and numerous enhancements over the earlier versions. This section provides a brief description of the key features added to the various modules of Simulation Toolkit 6.

New Features in 6.0

• Template based model of device creation and data storage

  Simulation Toolkit 6 is based on a completely new data model. The new template based model of device creation and device configuration offers the following benefits:

  • Enables creation of large networks in seconds.
  • Occupies very less storage space of MySQL data for the network devices.
  • Enables template based configuration and modification of devices. (i.e) if 50 devices are created using Template device "A", any bulk modifications can be achieved by modifying this template device.
  • Offers enhanced network performance.


• GUI changes enhances the user experience with the product
  • Intuitive GUI to enable template based device configuration of table rows, traps, scripts, MIB(s) loading/ unloading, and protocol specific parameters, in addition to bulk modification feature.
  • Multiple device selection for Start / Stop agent.
  • View the network devices as device images/device list.
  • View all the inform response in intuitive table GUI.
  • Separate wizard to specify 'unique oid values' while creating the network.
  • Enable/disable the display of device library in the network designer.
  • Simplified network creation with automatic generation of IP address.
  • Simplified GUI to record real agent values.
  • View Template tree and configure devices after network creation.
  • Multiple device selection for deletion, when not required.  


• New Cisco IOS Commands added - EIGRP router mode and Vlan mode.
• Complete SNMP v2, v3 Inform Support.
• Support to package and install individual /multiple devices in the device tree.
• Support for timer script execution after specified time after agent startup.
• Command Line utility to create SNMP WALK file.
• Simplified v3 configurations with new SNMPv3 configuration tool with intuitive GUI.
• Migration tools to migrate the SNMP agent, TL1 agent and network created in release 5 version to the current version.

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