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MIMIC Release Notes

1. New functionality in 22.10

   Simulator

   Run MIMIC as a Windows service
   

   Miscellaneous

   WEBUI improvements
   

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2. New functionality in previous releases

   1. New functionality in 22.00

      Simulator

      SSH: support ECDSA host keys in addition to RSA
      

      Miscellaneous

      WEBUI improvements
      

   2. New functionality in 21.30

      Simulator

      Miscellaneous

      WEBUI improvements
      Topology Wizard improvements
      Sparkplug B improvements

   3. New functionality in 21.20

      Simulator

      better SIMULATE for better counter rate simulation
      SSH: more key exchange methods (SHA2, group exchange)

      Miscellaneous

      SNMPv3 Wizard command line utility

   4. New functionality in 21.10

      Simulator

      Default, out-of-the-box lab is now this 25-agent heterogeneous network
      New gNMI Simulator
      MIMIC now also runs on Windows 11

      Miscellaneous

      Device Catalog command line utility
      Device Configuration command line utility
      SNMPv3 Configuration command line utility

   5. New functionality in 21.00

      Simulator

      Miscellaneous

      RESTCONF recorder to create RESTCONF simulations in WEB Services module
      Windows 64-bit executables by default

   6. New functionality in 20.10

      Simulator

      Miscellaneous

      Better install for non-GUI Linux deployments
      Protocol Wizard command line interface
      Update Wizard command line interface
      MIB Wizard command line interface
      CLI Wizard: better PCAP support, etc.
      WEBUI MIB menu
      MQTT: TLS SNI support, better Sparkplug support, etc.
      NetFlow: simulate Gigamon fields, IPv6 fields, etc.

   7. New functionality in 20.00

      Simulator

      Agent host address can now be IPv6 address
      NETCONF simulation

      Miscellaneous

   8. New functionality in 19.20

      Simulator

      File versioning of lab configuration files
      Go API
      MIMIC OpenAPI REST API

      Miscellaneous

      Major CLI Wizard improvements for default rule generation

   9. New functionality in 19.10

      Simulator

      OpenSSL 1.1.1b for TLS1.3

      Miscellaneous

      Support OpenAPI in WEB module

   10. New functionality in 19.00

       Simulator

       New WEBUI web-based user interface
       New MQTT 5.0 support, in addition to existing MQTT 3.1.1

       Miscellaneous

       Match tool in speed bar and dialogs to quickly filter from large numbers of items.
       Newest tool in File Browser dialog to sort by modification.

   11. New functionality in 18.10

       Simulator

       New Javascript API

       Miscellaneous

       Control MQTT publish simulation at runtime with mimic agent protocol msg MQTT client message command.
       Latest IPFIX fields from IANA
       Agent -> Statistics graphing to Graphite / Grafana

   12. New functionality in 18.00

       Simulator

       New CoAP Simulator
       SIMULATE language extensions for Variable Store access for parametrized simulations

       Miscellaneous

   13. New functionality in 17.10

       Simulator

       Remove support for Solaris platform.

       Miscellaneous

       MIMICview now can control a subset of all agents, allowing multiple parallel GUI instances
       Tcl/Tk 8.6.6 for MIMICview, MIMICshell

   14. New functionality in 17.00

       Simulator

       SIMULATE language extensions for Value Space access for faster complex built-in simulations
       NetFlow module now exports over IPv6 in addition to IPv4
       MQTT client can now retrieve authentication parameters, eg.from OAuth 2.0, for CONNECT

       Miscellaneous

       Parallel management channel threads for multi-threaded MIMIC clients
       MIMICview Explorer View: more than 10000 agents in root map causes them to automatically be moved to submaps; configurable in Maps tab of Configuration Wizard

   15. New functionality in 16.20

       Simulator

       SNMPv3 SHA-2 authentication as specified in RFC 7860

       Miscellaneous

       MQTT Recorder to create simulations from real-world sensors

   16. New functionality in 16.10

       Simulator

       NetFlow module now supports Cisco PFR Reporting fields; 8-byte fields; dynamic flow generation changes at runtime
       New PHP API

       Miscellaneous

       Enhanced Topology Wizard with topology visualization

   17. New functionality in 16.00

       Simulator

       New MQTT Simulator
       Sped up loading large lab configuration files.
       Major performance enhancements on 8+-CPU hosts for all protocols

       Miscellaneous

       Python API now supports Python 3.x in addition to 2.x
       Self-documenting lab configuration files with user editable comments

   18. New functionality in 15.20

       Simulator

       Better IPv6 support in Windows 7 and later: 10 times faster agent start
       Content type negotiation in WEB services module
       SSH can now be the transport for applications other than CLI / IOS / JUNOS (TELNET module).

       Miscellaneous

       Favorites in Value Space Browser
       New GUI Variable Store dialog for variable store commands
       Web Wizard changes WEB module configurable values in real-time

   19. New functionality in 15.10

       Simulator

       WEB module supports SPNEGO-based Kerberos and NTLM HTTP Authentication on Windows
       WEB module can now define multiple services per agent

       Miscellaneous

       Optional 64-bit Recorder to handle large walkfiles (greater than 4GB)

   20. New functionality in 15.00

       Simulator

       MIMIC now also runs on Windows 10
       30,000 agents on Windows 8, Windows 10

       Miscellaneous

       Tcl/Tk 8.6.3 for MIMICview, MIMICshell
       10000-foot view for large-scale simulations
       better support for saving and merging subsets of lab configurations / maps

   21. New functionality in 14.20

       Simulator

       Simulate DHCP relay

       Miscellaneous

   22. New functionality in 14.11

       Simulator

       Major improvements in performance on Windows.

       Miscellaneous

       MIMICView File -> Connect dialog to connect to other instances of MIMIC
       IPMI Wizard can now change IPMI simulations at run-time
       improved SFLOW Wizard

   23. New functionality in 14.00

       Simulator

       Major performance enhancements targetted to multi-CPU systems
       100,000 agents on 64-bit Linux
       sFlow module now generates up to 60000 exports per minute

       Miscellaneous

       New Web Wizard to create Web Services simulations
       Configurable NetFlow information elements
       major improvements to NetFlow Wizard
       Discovery Wizard now also imports previously recorded walkfiles to generate a network simulation
       Discovery Wizard also discovers LLDP Remote data and OSPF Neighbors
       Diagnostic Wizard now dumps MIMIC thread information
       New IPMI Wizard to create IPMI simulations

   24. New functionality in 13.20

       Simulator

       Major performance enhancements targetted to multi-CPU systems

       Miscellaneous

       New SOAP Recorder to create WEB services simulations
       sFlow Recorder now also records expanded flow samples
       Discovery Wizard now also uses Cisco's CDP cache table

   25. New functionality in 13.10

       Simulator

       Multiple flow sources in NetFlow Simulator
       New sFlow Recorder
       New WSDL compiler for the WEB Services module
       Tcl 8.5.14

       Miscellaneous

   26. New functionality in 13.00

       Simulator

       New WEB Services Simulator

       Miscellaneous

       MIMIC Recorder now uses version 2c GETBULK walk by default
       Script Generator now generates Python code in addition to Tcl, Java, Perl and C++
       Agent -> Script... now runs Perl and Python scripts
       Snapshot Wizard can now schedule snapshots

   27. New functionality in 12.20

       Simulator

       SFLOW module supports nested structures, discriminant unions
       Tcl 8.5.12

       Miscellaneous

       New SFLOW Wizard
       Improved NetFlow Wizard
       File -> Open: more control to add lab configurations into running configuration
       CLI Wizard now supports discovering Force10 CLI

   28. New functionality in 12.10

       Simulator

       SFLOW module supports XDR fields
       

       Miscellaneous

       MIMIC now runs on Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Fedora 17.

   29. New functionality in 12.00

       Simulator

       New sFlow Simulator
       Load lab configurations incrementally with new mimic load starting-agent optional argument

       Miscellaneous

       MIMICView: Agent Change Simulation dialog to easily customize simulation of MIB objects
       MIMICView: re-design menu items to make features more accessible
       QuickStart: 1-minute videos on YouTube
       MIMIC now runs on Fedora 16 and Ubuntu 11.10.

   30. New functionality in 11.40

       Simulator

       Improvements in Netflow protocol module:

       • optionally generate template and data flowsets in same packet
       • variable-length records in IPFIX
       • private enterprise numbers in IPFIX

       Miscellaneous

   31. New functionality in 11.30

       Simulator

       Minor improvements in Netflow protocol module:

       • enumerated addresses in addition to ranges

       Miscellaneous

       Renamed IOS Wizard to CLI Wizard
       CLI Wizard can now create rules interactively or from a transcript

   32. New functionality in 11.20

       Simulator

       Support for IPFIX (NetFlow version 10) in Netflow protocol module.
       Licensing for running on virtual machines (eg. VMWare)
       Tcl 8.5.9

       Miscellaneous

       trapper can now import from PCAP files containing traps

   33. New functionality in 11.10

       Simulator

       Major improvements in Netflow protocol module:

       • multiple flow definitions per flowset
       • bi-directional flows
       • 64-bit values
       • sequential values/addresses for predictable flows
       • dynamic reconfiguration while running
       • 1000 flowsets / second / agent
       • IPv6 addresses

       Miscellaneous

       NetFlow Wizard

   34. New functionality in 11.00

       Simulator

       50,000 agents on 64-bit Linux
       Netflow protocol module
       UDP support in PROXY server
       MIMIC now runs on Fedora 13 and 14.

       Miscellaneous

       --engineid parameter to MIMIC Recorder to specify Engine ID rather than discovering it

   35. New functionality in 10.30

       Simulator

       Deterministic server switching in PROXY server
       Dynamic content manipulation in PROXY server
       

       Miscellaneous

   36. New functionality in 10.20

       Simulator

       MIMIC now runs on Fedora 11 and 12.
       IPv6 support for PROXY server; also proxies IPv4 to IPv6 and viceversa
       

       Miscellaneous

   37. New functionality in 10.10

       Simulator

       Source address indexing for TCP.
       

       Miscellaneous

       SNMPv3 support in Discovery Wizard.

   38. New functionality in 10.00

       Simulator

       Server Proxy Protocol Module
       Tcl 8.5.7
       IPMI multi-session support
       Telnet NAWS negotiation

       Miscellaneous

       Protocol Wizard to ease installation of optional protocol modules
       Java API on Unix uses Java Unix Domain Sockets for local management channel yielding another 20% performance improvement
       Hyperlinks to detailed description in Log Viewer

   39. New functionality in 9.40

       Simulator

       Complete support for Windows 7.

       Miscellaneous

       C++ API performance improvements

   40. New functionality in 9.30

       Simulator

       SNMPv3 context-engine-id indexing in addition to engine-id indexing.
       Tcl 8.5.6

       Miscellaneous

       Performance Wizard

   41. New functionality in 9.20

       Simulator

       Support Fedora 10.
       Support AES-192 and AES-256 privacy.
       Perl interface is now 30% faster on Windows due to local channel.
       Support Solaris Zones.

       Miscellaneous

   42. New functionality in 9.10

       Simulator

       Support OpenSolaris.
       Perl interface is now 50-100% faster.

       Miscellaneous

       Improved Topology Editor.

   43. New functionality in 9.00

       Simulator

       Support Windows Server 2008.
       Enable full tracing to better diagnose encrypted PDUs.
       Tcl 8.5.2

       Miscellaneous

       Create fast simulations with --fast option to Recorder

   44. New functionality in 8.40

       Simulator

       Can now send multiple varbinds with same object in TRAPs.

       Miscellaneous

       Major performance improvements in SNMP PDU handling.

   45. New functionality in 8.31

       Simulator

       Complete support for Windows Vista.
       64-bit support for Solaris x86.

       Miscellaneous

       Track available virtual memory.
       Tcl/Tk 8.4.14
       Tix 8.4.2
       Tcllib 1.9
       Major performance enhancement starting agents with SNMPv3.

   46. New functionality in 8.20

       Simulator

       MIMIC Universal: 20,000 agent support on Windows, Solaris and Linux.

       Miscellaneous

       Major performance enhancements in MIMICView.
       Organize your devices in categories.
       MIB directory organized by manufacturer.

   47. New functionality in 8.11

       Simulator

       IPMI 2.0 support in addition to IPMI 1.5
       64-bit executable support on Windows, Solaris/Sparc and Linux , allowing for large simulations going beyond 4GB of virtual memory.
       New platform support for Windows Vista

       Miscellaneous

       Tutorial Wizard
       Configure startup action scripts for agents.
       More than 1800 pre-compiled MIBs.

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   48. New functionality in 8.00

       Simulator

       IPMI support
       IPv6 support for Windows XP, 2003.
       Complete control over OID traversal through mimic action jump in GETNEXT action script.
       Latest Tcl/Tk 8.4.13

   49. New functionality in 7.30

       Simulator

       SNMPv3 USM module supports the CFB128-AES-128 privacy protocol, as specified in RFC 3826.
       SSHv2 support in addition to SSHv1.5.
       Latest Tcl/Tk 8.4.11

   50. New functionality in 7.20

       Simulator

       IPv6 support for Solaris 10.
       SNMPv3 user management support.

       Miscellaneous

       Disconnect links in Virtual Lab.

   51. New functionality in 7.11

       Simulator

       New platform support for Solaris 10.
       5,000 agents on Windows 2000 and XP. Up from 2,000 agents.
       SNMPv3 engine-id indexing allows multiple agents with same IP address and port but different engine-id.
       Latest Tcl/Tk 8.4.8

       Miscellaneous

       Platform-native look-and-feel for MIMICView.
       Major performance improvements in MIMICView.

   52. New functionality in 7.00

       Simulator

       Full support for IPv6 on Linux, Solaris.
       Secure shell (ssh)
       SYSLOG

       Miscellaneous

       More IOS commands.

   53. New functionality in 6.30

       Simulator

       Miscellaneous

       Telnet server can now operate on multiple IP aliases for an agent.
       More IOS commands.

   54. New functionality in 6.20

       Simulator

       Load-time transform of data for wholesale changes to data (eg. network address change in VLAB).

       Miscellaneous

       Virtual Lab on Unix platforms.
       Improved exercises for Virtual Lab.

   55. New functionality in 6.10

       Simulator

       New platform support for Windows Server 2003 for upto 10,000 agents
       SNMP over TCP

   56. New Functionality in 6.00

       Simulator

       Source address indexing allows multiple simultaneous virtual networks with overlapping addresses to be accessible from different management stations.
       TL/1 Support in Telnet module
       New platform support for RedHat 9.

       Miscellaneous

       Virtual Lab GUI.
       IPv6 support in Recorder.

   57. New Functionality in 5.40

       Simulator

       Enable/disable MIB subtrees.
       New platform support for Solaris 9, RedHat 8.

       Miscellaneous

       C++ API.
       C++ Actions.
       Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
       Script Generator.
       Link into MIB source from Simulation Wizard.

   58. New Functionality in 5.30

       Simulator

       New platform support for Windows XP.
       Variable store .
       Multiple agent start/stop action scripts .
       Option negotiation for Telnet.

       Miscellaneous

       IOS Explorer.
       Trap Wizard.
       64-bit arithmetic in MIMICShell scripts .
       --static option in MIMIC Recorder .
       Sanity Wizard.
       Usage Profiling .

   59. New Functionality in 5.20

       Simulator

       Cisco IOS Simulator.
       MGCP Protocol module.
       Persistent, per-user lab configuration.
       Agent access control.
       Configurable number of management channels.

       Miscellaneous

       Recorder can now create simulations of unknown MIB objects.
       IOS Recorder
       Snapshot Wizard.

   60. New Functionality in 5.10

       Simulator

       Telnet Protocol module.
       Per agent timer scripts.
       Action scripts on INFORM response and timeout.
       Major performance improvements.
       New platform support for Windows Me.

       Miscellaneous

       Perl API

   61. New Functionality in 5.00

       Simulator

       Cable Modem Simulator for DOCSIS-compliant cable modems.
       TFTP Protocol module.
       Time-of-day Protocol module.
       Generate INFORM PDU in addition to TRAP and NOTIFICATION.
       SIMULATE {random (low, high)} returns random value for static objects.
       Per-agent trap destinations in addition to global trap destinations.
       Remote host-based access control.

       Recorder

       SNMPv2c, SNMPv3 support, in addition to SNMPv1

       Miscellaneous

       Trap management in MIMICView.
       Trap Recorder records INFORM PDU in addition to TRAP and NOTIFICATION.
       Java-based Topology Editor with major enhancements.
       Tcl/Tk 8.3.

   62. New Functionality in 4.40

       Simulator

       Scalable DHCP.
       AUGMENTed tables.
       Protocol-dependent statistics.

       Miscellaneous

       Graphing capability.
       Java API for MIMIC clients.

   63. New Functionality in 4.30

       Simulator

       DHCP client simulation.
       MIMIC Global: 10,000 agent support on Solaris and Linux
       New platform support for Solaris 8 (both Sparc and Intel).
       Better simulation visualization/control through Value Space Browser.
       Major performance enhancements.

       Miscellaneous

       New Topology Editor to display/modify device interconnection.

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   64. New Functionality in 4.20

       Simulator

       New platform support for Windows 2,000 and Solaris on Intel.
       MIMIC Industrial: 5,000 agent support on Solaris and Linux
       Ability to simultaneously run multiple versions of a MIB.
       More control from action scripts: drop PDUs, variable binding processing,...

       Miscellaneous

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   65. New Functionality in 4.10

       Simulator

       MIMIC Millennia: 2,000 agent support on Solaris and Linux
       SNMPv3: USM with SHA1; tested with SNMP Research BRASS
       Update Wizard: update to new versions of MIMIC
       Configuration Wizard: configure MIMIC
       Actions on traps.

       Miscellaneous

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   66. New Functionality in 4.00

       Simulator

       MIMIC Millennia: 2,000 agent support on Windows NT
       SNMPv3: USM with MD5, full VACM
       GUI support for large-scale simulations: hierarchical maps, Explorer-like mode
       MIB Wizard: compile MIBs, handle dependencies among MIBs
       Discovery Wizard: record large networks
       Actions on agent start/stop, timer-based.

       Miscellaneous

       More MIBs: Accelerated Networks, APC, AT&T, Compaq, Intel, Lucent, Nortel, Sonoma Systems, latest RFCs
       Now more than 1,000 precompiled MIBs.

   67. New Functionality in 3.30

       Simulator

       Support multiple users simultaneously.
       Simulation Wizard: easy-to-use front-end to create simulations.

       Miscellaneous

       Redback, IBM MIBs
       Now more than 800 precompiled MIBs.

   68. New Functionality in 3.20

       Simulator

       Configurable transit delay per agent to simulate geographically dispersed WAN scenarios.
       MIMICShell action scripts can now be invoked upon receipt of PDUs to accomplish desired side effects.
       Community string indexing allows multiple agents with same IP address and port but different community string.
       More scalability choices: MIMIC Lab product with 25 agents.

       Miscellaneous

       Xylan MIBs
       Now more than 650 precompiled MIBs.

   69. New Functionality in 3.10

       Simulator

       SNMPv3 with noAuth, noPriv USM.
       Efficient loading of large tables (1,000+ entries).
       Windows 98 support.

       Miscellaneous

       Trap recorder.

   70. New Functionality in 3.00

       Simulator

       Full support for SNMPv2c and SNMPv2, including GETBULK, authentication, parties, contexts, views, v2 TRAP.
       Multi-lingual agents (SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, SNMPv2).
       1,000 agent support on Solaris.
       SET PDU syntax checking.

       Compiler

       Full SMIv2 support.

       Miscellaneous

       Trap generation dialog.

   71. New Functionality in 2.40

       Simulator

       Higher scalability: MIMIC Enterprise edition can now simulate up to 1,000 agents on one Windows NT PC. The MIMIC Campus edition simulates up to 500 agents.
       Multi-NIC support: each agent instance can be configured independently to use a specific network interface card.

       Recorder

       Improved robustness: recover from error responses.

       Miscellaneous

       Automated creation of simulation from set of MIBs.
       More than 600 precompiled MIBs are supplied.

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   72. New Functionality in 2.30

       Recorder

       Options to handle large MIBs (maximum table size, exclude object trees).
       Option to slow down retrieval (in order not to overwhelm sensitive device with management requests).
       Recorder now automatically recovers from agent's inability to handle multi-variable GETNEXT PDUs.

       Simulator

       Multiple community strings per agent.
       Value space lookup failure now returns DEFVAL clause of MIB object. This simulates correct dynamic row creation semantics.
       Solaris native threads support takes advantage of multi-processor systems.
       More efficient/accurate trap generation.

       Miscellaneous

       TCL package with MIMIC extensions loadable into any TCL-based shell.
       More robust scripting with TCL-style error handling (catch).
       Better diagnostics for all tools.
       More than 550 precompiled MIBs are supplied.

   73. New Functionality in 2.23

       Windows Support

       Windows NT 4.0 is fully supported. Windows 95 is supported with minor limitations.

       Computer Associates Unicenter(R) TNG Support

       Support for Unicenter TNG agents.

       Year 2000

       Minor Year 2000 fixes.

       Miscellaneous

       Agents can be instructed to drop PDUs at a configurable rate.
       Recorder can record subsets of large tables.
       More than 500 precompiled MIBs are supplied.

   74. New Functionality in 2.20

       RedHat Linux 5.x Support

       RedHat Linux 5.x is fully supported.

       Configurable Network Mask

       You can now set any subnet mask for each agent instance.

       Miscellaneous

       Scripting language has been improved: you can now create/delete agents, pause at any time, etc.
       Performance improvements.
       MIMICView is now based on the latest Tcl/Tk 8.0.

   75. New Functionality in 2.10

       SMIv2 BITS

       The SMIv2 BITS construct is now supported in MIBs such as RMON-2, HCRMON, etc.

       Maximum PDU size

       The maximum PDU size is configurable per agent instance. MIMIC responds with the TOO_BIG error status for PDU overflow.

       PDU Tracing

       SNMP PDUs can be traced per agent instance. The PDU type and each variable are logged.

   76. New Functionality in 2.00

       SNMP SET

       This release adds support for SNMP SETs. A management application can perform an SNMP SET on all objects that have read-write access in the view with the agent's write-community name.
       MIMIC performs syntactical checking on the values, to make sure that they conform in type and that the value is legal given SIZE and range restrictions.
       New entries are added to tables by performing a SET on any column in the new row. New objects assume their default value as specified in the DEFVAL clause.

       Traps

       This release provides for TRAP PDU generation. The "trap_periodic" simulation generates periodic traps with the specified frequency. The following aspects of trap generation are configurable at run-time for each trap for each agent instance:

       • frequency
       • cutoff time
       • variable values

       
       For example, you can generate the linkUp trap every 15 seconds for the next 300 seconds, and send a different ifIndex for each.

       250 Agents

       MIMIC Professional edition scales up to 250 agent simulations on all supported platforms.

       RMON2 support

       MIMIC fully supports MIB objects that are 64-bit counters, such as those in the IF-MIB (RFC 1573).

       Persistence

       MIMIC will now give you the option of saving changed simulations when stopping a simulation. Any simulation that is changed via user-interface Set Value or SNMP SET requests will ask you to save it when you use Agent-->Stop. The changed values are accessible in subsequent simulation sessions.

       Scripting

       In addition to the interactive graphical user interface in MIMICView, simulations are now accessible in batch-mode scripting via the new MIMICShell tool mimicsh.
       mimicsh provides a TCL-based scripting environment with access to MIMIC. All operations that can be done with MIMICView in interactive mode can be done in scripts in mimicsh.

       Miscellaneous

       At least 100 more MIBs have been added bringing the total above 400.
       Several GUI improvements have been implemented:

       • Agent icons are now displayed with configurable bitmaps. This gives at-a-glance indication of the simulation. The bitmaps are determined by the device name, and the regular expressions of bitmaps in the bitmap/ subdirectory.
       • Right-clicking on an agent icon brings up the Agent menu.
       • Per-agent statistics are now available with Agent-->Statistics.

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3. Known problems

   1. Linux limitations
   2. Solaris limitations
   3. Windows limitations

   Please consult the Frequently Asked Questions section for resolved problems.