FasTrack Conductor
QCOM FasTrack Conductor (FTC) is a software tool designed to help accelerate development of your Management System, be it an EMS (Element Management System), a NMS (Network Management System) or even a CIT (Craft Interface Terminal).QCOM FasTrack Conductor comes in two versions:
1. FasTrack Conductor - Chassis Builder version
The Chassis Builder version helps in building the 'Shelf View' of your equipment and generates the necessary Java source code to display it. It supports Bay based, Subrack based and Box based as well as Container and Free-Form Entity configurations. The Container is used to group managed devices such as Entity, Box, Subrack, Bay, or even another Container. The Chassis Builder version comes with a library of standard icons and equipment / port views as well as allows you to import your own. You can draw from a scratch or use its drag and drop functionality.
The figure below shows an example of Shelf View of an optical switch drawn in FTC.
FTC comes with a well-documented API, which allows you to control the generated equipment view. Using this API, you can simulate circuit pack insertion / deletion from your equipment view as well as have the LEDs flash in the desired color. In addition to jump-starting your Management System GUI, FTC output comes in very handy for doing a show and tell of your equipment.
2. FasTrack Conductor - Management System version
Using the Management System version, besides building the shelf view, you can do Object customization and generate Database access files as well.
Once your equipment shelf view is ready, you can customize any of its generated classes. You can add new attributes, define their types, declare them to be public or private and even assign them default values.
FasTrack Conductor will automatically generate Java code for these customized classes extending them from the previously generated equipment base classes, enabling you to use the desired extra attributes for whatever purpose you want in your back end server. The generated code would also have 'get' and 'set' methods for each of the customized attributes.
The Database generation feature eliminates the need for a Database Administrator in your organization. It can be used for any Java class(es). You can even load a pre-complied Jar file directly into FasTrack Conductor to generate database access files for all the classes contained in it. You can select the field that you wish to use as the key for the generated tables and even have the option of adding or removing the objects that you wish to store in the database. FasTrack Conductor will automatically generate the SQL files for creating and deleting the database tables as well as store procedures for each of the objects in the selected class(es). The generated routines are JDBC compliant and can be used both with Oracle as well as MySQL databases.
FTC is implemented in 100% Java using Sun's Java 2 software and available for Windows NT / 2000 / XP platforms. An easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) is provided to allow point-and-click functionality.
For more details on QCOM FasTrack Conductor, e-mail to sales@qcominc.com.