NMS Swiss Army Knife

• Trap Generator : This is very useful to generate
  artificial traps to see if your management platform is
  receiving and processing traps



• Syslog Generator : If you running a syslog server,
  it is nice to be able to send in messages of differing
  facilities and priorities to check to see how your
  server will handle them



• Email Generator : I often have to set up event
  forwarding or alerting via e-mail. Sometimes you don't
  want to have to wait for an event to occur to see if
  your smtp server is working OK - this tool will test
  it for you.



• Ping : This is just a simple ping test to verify
  IP(ICMP) connectivity to a device.



• TCP Connect : This tool allows you to check if a
  TCP port is open. This can be useful to check whether
  services such as Telnet, Http, SMTP are available.