Agilent announces agreement to distribute SanAlytics software

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced an OEM agreement with Protocol Analytics to distribute the company's SanAlytics software.

SanAlytics is a post-processing software that complements the Agilent 1735A Fiber Channel traffic-generation and protocol-analysis solution. This combination of products will help engineers accelerate the development of Fiber Channel SAN equipment and speed troubleshooting and debugging, Agilent said.

According to the company, as its Fiber Channel fabrics grow in size and complexity, it becomes more difficult to identify the root cause of elusive, system-level problems. To test effectively, designers and system-level validation teams need state-of-the-art test equipment to help them identify problems and quickly pinpoint the root cause.

The 1735A solution provides advanced analysis features such as drag-and-drop and search and filtering capability, and one of the world's few state-machine-based triggering system to help engineers capture problems in real time.

SanAlytics's post-processing engine enables increased clarity by providing multiple views of the captured data, highlighting different relationships in the data. This means engineers will no longer need to search through large traces; instead, the SanAlytics software will highlight key relevant issues.

The SanAlytics standard software package is free for all Agilent 1735A-A00 Fibre Channel protocol analyzer customers. A premium upgrade of SanAlytics software (1735A-P00), including performance graphs, enhanced fault view and SCSI summary view, will be available to Agilent customers for an initial price of $2,800. Both standard and premium packages will be available May 1, 2006.