Gale Technologies

Lab Manager

Efficient Automation of your Connectivity Infrastructure

The manual patch panel is no more because of interconnectivity solutions like Lab Manager, the software platform for the physical layer and patch panel automation.

One of the leading lab management and automation solutions, Lab Manager will connect network devices and test equipment in just a few mouse clicks. Even better, with this interconnectivity solution, you can reconfigure and reconnect these physical resources in minutes, time and time again, avoiding the common pitfalls of patch panels while at the same time saving countless man hours.

Some of today's leading network equipment manufacturers, service providers, and enterprises are using Lab Manager to:

Lab Manager will accommodate any number or combinations of electrical and optical interface types, including Ethernet, Optical, Fibre Channel, RF/Coax, POTS/analog, T1/E1, DSL and others. You can even interconnect devices in multiple labs across a building, campus, or even across the world, using long-haul links provided by some switches.

Lab Manager High Availability

Need the highest levels of reliability, availability and serviceability? Lab Manager’s High Availability option has you covered with additional redundancy built into the resource cluster to eliminate a single point of failure. In the unlikely event that a server node should fail, near immediate failover will occur without administrative intervention so topologies and configurations can be maintained.
 

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Lab ManagerLab Manager automates the physical layer reconfiguration while providing an easy-to-use graphical user interface for remotely or locally:

  • Managing available devices
  • Designing, managing, and sharing topologies
  • Scheduling topologies for immediate or future use
  • Connecting and controlling physical configurations
  • Interacting directly with devices for manual testing or automated test script execution
  • Tracking and reporting asset availability and usage

 

Lab Manager is also available as a server Appliance, providing a convenient 1U rack-mount system, without the hassle of software installation, and with other benefits that include:

  • Easy Installation - Set up your Ethernet network interface and go!
  • Upgrades - Performed by simply uploading patch files via an internet connection to the server.
  • Database Backups - A database snapshot can be downloaded by authorized users via a web browser.
  • Support - If there are any hardware issues, a server can be replaced quickly and restored to operation with minimal impact.
     
 

Lab Manager's market-leading features not only make it easy to transition from manual control to software control of resources, but to optimize the resources in ways never before possible from an off-the-shelf solution:

  • Discover available devices that have specific attributes
  • Define generic topologies with substitution criteria, allowing the system to choose available devices at the time of reservation
  • Easily tap connections (patent pending method) to send traffic to analyzers or to insert test boxes
  • Assign domain rights to users to limit access privileges to certain devices
  • Create topology building blocks that can be merged to create larger test topologies
  • Drill down to connection diagnostics that allow you to easily access route specifics and diagnostics from the switching infrastructure
  • Integrate with test automation and other applications through the Lab Manager API.

By eliminating the errors, complexity and human resources associated with manual patch panels, you’ll improve your test results and speed time-to-market while lowering your costs.
 

 

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Gale's High Availability (HA) option for Lab Manager provides reliability, availability, and serviceability to Lab Manager customers.

Existing users of the award-winning Lab Manager Software are already taking advantage of ways to save time, money and resources in their labs.  The High Availability solution provides customers Lab Manager server uptime – eliminating a single server point of failure and unprecedented Lab Manager service availability.

Lab Manager High Availability comes in two options:

  • 2-Node Cluster Configuration - Basic Redundancy
  •  N + 1 Node Cluster Configuration - Storage Area Networking Infrastructure

Lab Manager High Availability Benefits:

  • Redundancy built into the resource cluster - eliminates single point of failure •
  • Transparency to Lab Manager clients with near immediate failover
  • No administrative intervention needed upon failure of a server node
  • Topologies/Configurations maintained should a failure occur
  • Heartbeat technology – ensures real-time monitoring of Lab Manager service availability