Virtual Control®

Related Information Virtual Control Helpdesk Virtual Control FAQs PDF Virtual Control Brochure Distributed system technologies in the Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) domains are increasingly being interwoven to leverage unique capabilities and create synergies among diverse technologies. The capability to manage and control multi-protocol systems and provide for their interoperability is critical to the success of these efforts. Virtual Control® is a flexible enterprise management and control system that has been designed to support a wide range of distributed system needs. Its robust capabilities are being applied across the LVC domains to support some of the most critical development programs in the DoD, including: Distributed simulation federations Live instrumented training ranges Command and control system-of-systems networks Sensor networks. Virtual Control® allows staff to spend less time troubleshooting their infrastructure and more time focused on producing results. Virtual Control® is designed to provide full control of the environment through a floating user interface with highly configurable user displays that allow maximum flexibility of Enterprise ControlTM. It can present the topology and component status of the enterprise, indicate problem spots, overlay devices on a floorplan, and analyze system-to-system throughput (TCP, UDP, and Multicast). Virtual Control® supports scripting of command lists, enabling users to remotely start up, run, and shut down processes. Triggers can be established that monitor the status of devices and processes and alert the user via color-coded displays. Virtual Control® can monitor High-Level Architecture (HLA) and Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) environments, and it supports the incorporation of custom probes enabling the monitoring of other tools and mechanisms. It can remotely interact with hlaResults® and provides access to the console commands and Management Object Model (MOM) data of RTI NG Pro®. Virtual Control® provides Multicast analysis and an Infrastructure Wizard. Virtual Control®, the result of more than a decade of hands-on distributed simulation experience, provides a powerful tool to enable the successful operation of distributed system enterprises. Benefits Users can control an entire distributed enterprise from one console. They can monitor the status of all platforms in the enterprise, be alerted to problems, and respond to those problems. Distributed modeling and simulation exercises are complicated events. Often, half of the exercise time is spent identifying problems with the infrastructure. Virtual Control® provides the tools and capabilities to quickly identify and resolve problems. Virtual Control® will allow more time to be spent on distributed modeling and simulation and far less time on distributed infrastructure. Virtual Control® will allow projects to be more successful by providing users with commanding awareness and control of their simulation environment and rapid analysis of problems, ensuring optimal execution of simulation events. Virtual Control®, when combined with hlaResults® and RTI NG Pro®, provides the strongest suite of tools available for distributed modeling and simulation support. Features Full enterprise analysis and control - Virtual Control® provides a unified view of your enterprise--the platforms, the processes, the simulations, and their status and relationship to each other. Integration with HLA tools - Virtual Control® provides federation and federate commands previously found in hlaControl®, a direct connection with hlaResults®, and the commands found in RTI NG Pro®'s rtiConsole. Enterprise discovery and topology display - Virtual Control® discovers enterprise assets through multiple mechanisms, and it displays that information in a logical tree structure and topological display. Enterprise infrastructure testing and verification prior to the commencement of simulation runs, significantly reducing the leading cause of distributed simulation failures.