IWL SilverCreek SNMP Test Suite

Find and Fix Bugs in Your Network Devices

Empower your network’s potential with SilverCreek, the industry-leading SNMP testing suite.

Quickly identify and resolve vulnerabilities in your network devices, ensuring unparalleled performance and security.
Experience the confidence of flawless network management with our comprehensive and user-friendly tools.

HOW TO BUY

SegueSoft has acquired all rights to SilverCreek SNMP Test Suite from InterWorking Labs (IWL).
This page references content originally developed by IWL, now authorized for Seguesoft’s use under the acquisition agreement.

Find more bugs in your SNMP implementation:
View a report on how choosing SilverCreek helps you find more bugs and testing with an ‘SNMP Manager’ isn’t real testing.

SilverCreek automated SNMP tests find more bugs in your SNMP implementation compared to other testing methods.

Devote more time to bug-fixing rather than bug-finding. Assure a higher quality, on-time, confident product deployment.

With SilverCreek, you’ll get a complete report on the quality of your SNMP agent implementation. You can then rank, order, and prioritize bug fixing.

Should You Make Your Own Protocol Test Suite?

Network Protocol Testing overview

SilverCreek also comes with a rich set of SNMP and MIB tools.

With our SilverCreek APIs and libraries, developers can migrate homegrown applications from obsolete and/or unsupported libraries and APIs, thereby preserving the investment in these applications.

SNMP & MIB Tools

API & Libraries

Key Features of SilverCreek SNMP Test Suite

✓ Set up in less than fifteen minutes

✓ Windows or Linux

✓ Customize tests via Wizards, Script Generators, & more

✓ Automate operation with unambiguous test results

✓ Integrate our SNMP tester with other test harnesses & test tools

✓ Includes conformance, compliance, vulnerability, robustness, security, stress, & performance testing

✓ Investigate failures & quickly resolve them with powerful diagnostic & analysis tools

✓ Detect & diagnose implementation errors in private & standard MIBs

“We chose the SilverCreek SNMP tester because the quality of the SNMPv3 tests, the test coverage, and the customer support were far superior to all the other products we evaluated. It was also easily extensible to provide proprietary test coverage. The SilverCreek SNMP test tools allowed us to move from a manual testing process to full SNMP test automation.” Software Development Manager, Juniper Networks.

How SilverCreek SNMP Tests Work

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Fast SNMP Test Set-Up	Uncovers More Bugs Than Competitors	Fully Automated and Integrated SNMP Testing	Test SNMP Agents on Any Device or Application
Streamline your SNMP testing process with SilverCreek’s quick and easy setup. Within minutes, you’ll be ready to conduct thorough and effective network device assessments, saving valuable time and resources.	SilverCreek’s advanced testing capabilities reveal more bugs and vulnerabilities than any other tool in the market. Ensure the highest level of network reliability and performance with our superior detection technology.	Experience the efficiency of fully automated SNMP tests with SilverCreek, integrating seamlessly into your existing workflows. Our suite offers a hands-off approach, delivering comprehensive results with minimal intervention.	SilverCreek’s versatile testing suite is designed to adapt to any device or application, ensuring broad compatibility and flexibility. Test with confidence across diverse network environments and various SNMP agents.

Fully automated, fully integrated test suites

Use either a command line interface or graphical user interface for testing. New users begin with the graphical interface; they point and click to run a test and become familiar with SilverCreek, SNMP and test results. All users eventually want to automatically execute the 1000+ tests, recording results, without operator intervention.SilverCreek supports full automation via the command line interface, as well as integration with other test tools and test harnesses.

Developer’s Guide with complete documentation on SNMP Libraries, APIs, and sample automation scripts
Automatically test multiple SNMP agents concurrently

Easy and extensible SNMP testing

Modify SilverCreek’s tests or add more tests for your specific implementation. SilverCreek offers a variety of methods for creating your own tests.

For software engineers and experienced testers, SilverCreek provides the test script source code. You can add, update or modify SilverCreek’s test scripts according to your precise needs.

For testers unfamiliar with scripting languages and a preference for a graphical tool, SilverCreek offers both a Wizard and Script Generator to create tests.

Programming skills are not necessary to get the full benefit from the SilverCreek Test Suite. The powerful Test Suite Manager simplifies test customization, organization and management.

Point & click to automatically run all SilverCreek tests & save results
Click on any leaf to launch the SNMP Command tool & view the contents of the agent’s object identifier (OID) tree & issue GETs and SETs
Combining SNMP GET & NEXT requests on modified object identifiers, the MIB browser quickly & accurately discovers MIB branches more thoroughly than the average MIB walk

Comprehensive SNMP Conformance, Compliance, and Vulnerability Testing

Getting your implementation to conform to the IETF RFCs (standards documents) is one thing, but verifying that the SNMP packet encapsulation is not vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks is equally important. Our vulnerability tests exhaustively test all the ways that SNMP packet encapsulation can be exploited. SilverCreek’s exhaustive and extensive capabilities.

Include test coverage for:

Conformance and compliance tests for SNMPv1, v2c, v3, all private and standard MIBs
Syntactic tests
Semantic (functionality) tests
Vulnerability (robustness) tests
Load tests (by simulating multiple managers)
Performance measurement tests

Functionality Tests include:

RMON I and RMON II (RFC-2819 and RFC-2021)
SNMPv3 USM-MIB (RFC-3414)
SNMPv3 VACM-MIB (RFC-3415)
SNMPv3 Apps (RFC-3413)
SNMPv3 MPD-MIB (RFC-3412)
MIB-II Tests (RFC 1213/2011/2012/2013/2196)s

IPv6 IP MIB Tests (RFC 4293)
IPv6 ipForward MIB Tests (RFC 4292)
IPv6 TCP-MIB Tests (RFC 4022)
IPv6 UDP-MIB Tests (RFC 4113)
DOCSIS Tests (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) (Includes Diffie-Helman SNMPv3 key ignition and keyChange)

SilverCreek supports SNMP agents using UDP or DTLS

Historically, the SNMP protocol operated over UDP. The IETF has extended the SNMP protocol to support DTLS in addition to UDP. In addition to the User Based Security Model (USM), the SNMP Protocol can utilize the Transport Security Model (TSM). TSM is a SNMPv3 security model (RFC 5591) designed for use with secure transports like SNMP over DTLS/UDP (RFC 6353).

The SilverCreek SNMP Test Suite software running over DTLS 1.0 or 1.2 automatically identifies bugs and anomalies to help design and quality assurance engineers fix their SNMP and MIB implementations.

The new SilverCreek SNMP Test Suite over DTLS is based on the following RFCs:

RFC 6353 Transport Layer Security (TLS) Transport Model for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), using the Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS/UDP).
RFC 5343 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Context EngineID Discovery
RFC 5591 Transport Security Model for the (TSM) Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

✓ DTLS integrates well into existing public keying infrastructures. Using DTLS over UDP, SNMP agents and managers can operate without eavesdropping, forgery, or message tampering. The DTLS mode provides potentially superior operation in environments where connectionless UDP transport is preferred.

✓ SilverCreek now supports SNMPv3 over Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Transport Model for SNMP (RFC6353). Customers can now connect to SNMP agents that implement SNMP over DTLS and run SilverCreek automatic SNMPv3 tests to test their SNMP over DTLS and MIB implementations. Both DTLS 1.0 and 1.2 are supported.

✓ SilverCreek Notification monitor supports receiving notifications over DTLS. Customers can also test SNMP traps and informs sent over DTLS/UDP secure transport.

SegueSoft Inc. (SSI) has acquired all rights to SilverCreek, Maxwell Pro TCP/IP Tests, and the IWL MQTT Tests from InterWorking Labs, Inc. (IWL).
This document references content originally developed by IWL, now authorized for SSI’s use under the acquisition agreement.