VulcanManager

Core Functions

VulcanManager is a free Windows-based application for managing Vulcan extreme-performance L4-7 test platforms. It is used for stateful end-to-end testing of network devices such as firewalls, SSL/TLS proxies, switches, routers, NAT routers, load-balancers, bandwidth shapers, and more.

VulcanManager is suitable for characterizing network baseline performance for TCP. This is done by measuring connection establishment and teardown rates, number of concurrent connections/transactions, packet forwarding rate at large numbers of connections and identify performance bottlenecks.

With Xena’s TLS 1.2 support, users can do TLS performance testing e.g. handshakes per second, TLS throughput, concurrent TLS connections, etc., with different cipher suites and certificate key sizes on a DUT that decrypts traffic on one side and encrypts on the other.

With VulcanAppMix, the platform allows users to run realistic application traffic mixes for performance verification of content-aware networks and application-aware network devices. This is extremely useful when verifying the performance of network security devices with application-awareness, such as next-generation firewalls, IPS, etc., in both network pre-production and post-production phases of enterprises. VulcanManager also allow users to replay their own captured traffic and scale up to millions of connections.VulcanManager supports ad-hoc test execution and remote management of test equipment located in multiple locations. Xena also offers an open scripting API (ValkyrieCLI) for automated testing.