Codenomicon today launched a new solution for distributed test lab monitoring and network troubleshooting. The Codenomicon Network Analyzer records test behavior and automatically visualizes network traffic. The Analyzer ought to provide testers with a clear picture of actual network traffic making it easy to discover problematic network areas, to target tests and to monitor the testing efforts in multiple locations.
According to Codenomicon the solution can store and process terabytes of real-time network data, and automatically visualize all network flows and identities, making it extremely easy to search and pinpoint troubling network issues. The problematic messages and sequences can be easily extracted to tools like Codenomicon Defensics for reproduction and testing, or to open source tools like Wireshark for closer inspection.
“Networks nowadays are a mixture of applications and components from various suppliers; nobody has an overall picture of the tested system. The Codenomicon Network Analyzers reveals what is really happening in the network helping testers decide what should be tested and how,” says David Chartier, CEO of Codenomicon. Ari Takanen, CTO of Codenomicon, continues: “One of the key strengths of the Network Analyzer is that it can be used to manage tests carried out in multiple locations and to process the test results. This is especially great news for companies with multiple testing sites.”
The Codenomicon Network Analyzer ought to be a collaborative solution: companies and organizations can use it to model actual network traffic, to troubleshoot networks and to debug any type of network communication from multiple locations. According to the vendor the collaborative framework also enables customers to invite third-parties to the collaboration environment to assist in troubleshooting.
All members of the private collaboration space can automatically reproduce all message flows, as loading the trace into Codenomicon Defensics will replay and fuzz all protocol sequences you pull out from the framework. All data contained in the back-end of the Network Analyzer is customer proprietary, and there is no public access to any of the confidential data. No data or queries are sent outside the customer controlled framework. (Source: Codenomicon Ltd./GST)