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EdenTree Branches Out With Configuration Manager


By Jeff Feinman
April 1, 2007 — 
EdenTree, a San Jose-based lab management solution company, in early March released Configuration Manager, an application designed to reduce problems of server configuration complexity in software test labs through automated reconfiguration.

EdenTree’s Configuration Manager allows software development teams to automate the setup, archiving and restoration of Linux, Unix or Windows computers in significantly less time than it would take for manual reconfiguring. The basic components of Configuration Manager are a storage device for image archives, a SAN or LAN switch that connects to each of the managed servers, and a user-provided network. Developers can save configurations to the storage device via the GUI or the script. The company claims that the product can reconfigure a lab in roughly 15 minutes to an hour.

Configuration Manager also offers integration capabilities with EdenTree’s Lab Manager, a platform for managing and scheduling connectivity of test equipment and network devices in labs. EdenTree officials pointed out that both products use the same client user interface, which makes the new product easier to use for developers familiar with EdenTree’s flagship product.

MORE TIME, MORE TESTS
“First and foremost, the biggest factor is that it is time-saving,” said Roberta Gonzalez, vice president of marketing for EdenTree. “With the time saved, the amount of tests that can be performed increases. Software developers can easily capture and restore complex configurations to recreate the environment they need for testing or defect resolutions, whatever they need to do.”

EdenTree positions Configuration Manager as an operating system-independent, transparent and programmatically accessible tool. Configuration is transparent, which results in devices that are identical to deployed systems. The programmatic interface of Configuration Manager allows automated configuration of devices and integration of physical topologies into automated test procedures.

Art Beall, CTO and co-founder of F1 Interop Solutions, said that Configuration Manager has helped his company in lowering costs. F1 Interop Solutions is a Plano, Texas-based company that specializes in interoperability, solution and conformance testing. The company, which was the first customer to obtain the product from EdenTree, has used Configuration Manager for nearly seven months. “It increases speed for our testing cycles, so since we can change up our servers, we can get things done that initially we couldn’t do,” he said. “What might have taken a full day will now only take 10 to 15 minutes of work.”

EdenTree was formed in May 2002, with the goal of automating network labs. In addition to San Jose, the company has offices in Boston, Chicago and Plano.


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