This blog gives an idea to simulate your own devices by creating device templates. It would be helpful to QA or any user who has dependency with the device data for testing the application. Before getting into technical details about simulation, the following summary is about snmp and snmpwalk. What is SNMP? SNMP is a Simple Network Management Protocol, which is […]
Simulate your own hardware devices as templates for testing
Rerouting outbound traffic to a simulated device on localhost
In this post, we will outline how we reroute traffic meant for a specific IP back to a synthetic device running on localhost. This is useful for testers who work with products that monitor IT infrastructure, infrastructure management application testers and network testers. We will be using a couple of Python modules (fake-switches, snmpsim) and editing the iptables of the […]