SNMP devices emulation

Question

We have network management system under linux, C/C++, perl and we need to test performance of this system. Is there a tool or way that would allow us to emulate 50 000 SNMP devices?

I don't know what more to say here... Please let me know if I should provide more information.

Any idea is appreciated.

Thank you Bogdan

Answer 1

There are a few tools out there that will let you do that, however what I've seen is usually commercial software.

• Adventnet SNMP Agent Simulator
• MIMIC SNMP Agent Simulator

Answer 2

You can try Raddle - it is open-source, written in Perl and based on honeyd, which should be able to emulate up to 65536 hosts.