The Solstice TMN Agent Toolkit greatly simplifies the development of TMN agent applications, thereby dramatically reducing the development cost of TMN solutions. By providing simple C APIs the toolkit simplifies the process of writing small agents, ensuring low training costs for telcos. Such a large reduction is possible because the toolkit automates a large part of the agent development process.
Generic functionality is provided by the core agent supplied with the toolkit.
The GDMO compiler generates much of the code to be linked with the core agent. The Solstice TMN Agent Tester automates the testing of TMN agents, allowing them to be tested in isolation before they are deployed with TMN managers. It does this by simplifying the generation of test requests and by acting as a TMN manager to send test requests to an agent under test. The Solastice TMN Agent Tester also receives the replies sent in response to test requests and analyzes them to produce reports on whether a test has passed or faied. The comprehensive test functions of the Solstice TMN Agent Tester cover the test requirements of the development, integration and deployment phases of TMN development projects.