Fewer Resources, More Testing

Leading technology companies such as Ericsson, Fujitsu, Cisco Systems, Hitachi Data Systems, and Verizon are re-thinking how they test their products and services, and they are relying on EdenTree's automation solutions to help them test smarter, test faster, test more cost-effectively, and test more thoroughly. How are they doing it?

Physical Layer Automation

Many leading networking vendors and service providers have discovered the benefits of using physical layer switches to dynamically interconnect complex lab topologies, eliminating manual connections and minimizing downtime. What took days or weeks can be done in minutes. However, this solution becomes tedious and unmanageable when the number of ports exceeds that of the largest single non-blocking switch. Tedious single-switch CLIs and manual look-up tables to track the switching infrastructure end up negating the benefits of the layer 1 switching. EdenTree's off-the-shelf software solution provides a simple front end that allows lab users to focus on the devices they need to use, transparently and intelligently connecting those devices for the user.

Lab management solutions from EdenTree provide off-the-shelf control of more than a dozen different Layer 1 and power switch types, serving today's heterogeneous labs.

Configuration Automation

Increasingly, labs today include larger numbers of computer systems hosting computer-based applications and solutions. As more and more products and versions of products need to be tested, labs are challenged to manage, update, and rebuild these systems in exponentially increasing numbers of configurations. Rebuilding complex configurations of computers with operating systems and applications can take hours or days with current methods, not to mention the cost, space, and manual labor involved with managing many hundreds of computers.

In much the same way that virtualization technologies are being used to reduce space and costs and improve computer utilization in production environments, EdenTree provides lab environments with a configuration automation solution that is tailored to labs and satisfies their unique requirements -- complete solution transparency, multi-OS support, a programmatic interface, remote access, and integration with the test tools already being used in labs.

Solutions for Labs Large and Small

Do you have 10,000 or 20,000 ports or devices in your lab?
No problem. EdenTree solutions scale to fit your needs - managing from small to very large switching infrastructures made up of tens of thousands of ports. EdenTree intelligently manages, configures and interconnects any number of devices, with advanced features for managing multiple user groups, discovering available devices, and customizing views so you can easily access the information you need.

A mix of device types and interface types in your lab?
No problem. Configuration Manager can configure Solaris, Linux, and Windows computers. Lab Manager can interconnect all kinds of devices, controlling any combination of physical layer switch types that interconnect just about any interface type. You don't need to use 5 different CLIs... All you need is one easy-to-use, drag-and-drop GUI.

Small lab with less than a few hundred ports?
No problem. Our award-winning solutions are priced per server and per port, allowing smaller labs to cost-effectively benefit from our solutions' full features, including our drag-and-drop GUI for managing device configurations and test topologies, multi-user access control, sharing and recalling configurations, scheduling tests, and searching for devices.

Already automating your lab with test scripts?
Smart move. But chances are, physical layer reconfigurations and/or computer configurations are a bottleneck, resulting in sub-optimized benefits from your software automation.  Get the most out of your automation efforts by automating the physical layer with EdenTree's APIs for lab automation, and automating computer configurations with EdenTree's Configuration Manager, which allow you to control configurations with script commands from Tcl, PERL, and other scripting languages.