Name: LiveAction
Rating: 8.3 (18 reviews)
Author: BlueCat

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Trust Management

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Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Corporate Volunteering

HR Management

Leave Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

3D Printers

Business Process Automation

Cloud Migration

Cloud Storage

Compliance Consulting

Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

Data Center Outsourcing (Canada)

Data Recovery Service

Data Virtualization

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection

Fraud Detection

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Hosted Virtual Desktop

IT Alert Management

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Network Performance Monitoring

Secure Access Control

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Intelligent Virtual Assistant

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LiveAction’s LiveNX is a network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It supports packet-level, network-wide visibility and proactive alerts. It can be deployed on-premise, virtually, or in the cloud.

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Automated network device discovery

Network monitoring

Baseline threshold calculation

Alerts

Network capacity planning

Packet capture analysis

Network mapping

Customizable reports

Wireless infrastructure monitoring

Hardware health monitoring

BlueCat

A network performance monitoring system monitors the entire network for performance problems and collects performance data such as network traffic analysis performance bottlenecks, etc.

Automated network device discovery allows all devices in the environment to be found and tracked

Monitoring network device availability and performance indicators like bandwidth, packet loss, CPU, WAN links, etc.

Calculation of baseline thresholds so to establish warning thresholds

Alerts warning of critical infrastructure component failure can be sent via email or SMS or other channel

Capacity planning analyzes interface utilization, disk usage, etc. and allows identification of capacity problems well in advance of threshold breach

Interception of data packets provides performance-related information such as network and application response times, and traffic type analysis

Dynamic mapping tool allows the network topology to be mapped showing performance metrics, and link connection and utilization

Ability to schedule, generate, and deliver custom performance and availability reports

Ability to monitor wireless access points, controllers, and connected clients

Ability to monitor key hardware metrics including temperature, fan speed, and power supply

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Network connection

Monitoring tool

Point and click

Network traffic

Different data

Data types

Down capability

Network security

Drill down capability

Visual analytics

Detailed reporting

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Network Performance Monitoring Tools

We use LiveNa to take in our netflow data across many sites and look for an abnormalities or issues based on the traffic patterns. It then creates a incident in our ticketing system for an engineer to review the alert. We also use it for the graphs it provides to track data usage.

Alerting on issues before they become critical
taking in data from many different sites

Cost
integrating with other data management tools

Compiling data from many different devices
tracking traffic

able to see bottle necks before they become an issue

We use LiveAction in basically two departments, infrastructure operations (primarily in the QoS arena) and security operations (Netflow data). As the IT security manager, I use it primarily for network overview and netflow data monitoring. It is a great product to give me insight to our overall network architecture and where I can drill down to those areas I need further detail. Its ability to give me the granularity to further investigate possible security incidents is valuable.

Architecture overview with drill down capability by device.
Detailed reporting of network traffic by type.
Great filtering capability which allows granular capture and review of different data types.
Great QoS functionality (Although I personally do not use it since mine is a primarily security function). Our infrastructure operations group utilizes it in that vein.

I use it primarily as a monitoring tool from a security standpoint, so one complaint is that the filter creation process takes a little time to learn.
In the digital days of printing less, I do still need to print network diagrams for compliance documentation and some of the larger network diagrams documents do not print easily.
I wish the network connection lines were easier to see. They are typically very light and you have to drill down to see them more clearly.

Real time insight to network issues whether security related or not.
Great reporting features for executives.

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We used LiveAction LiveNX for a network performance analyzer. The main purpose was for packet and flow use. Though it's not as advance as Extrahop for endpoint analysis, it still gave us a good view under the hood. The main department that uses it is mainly the voice and data department.

Packet tracing and diagnostics.
The visual analytics in the dashboard were good.

Packet analysis allows us to proactive.
Understanding of network traffic

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LiveAction's LiveNX product takes the mystery out of your network by assessing your code against best practices, security recommendations, etc. However, this is not where the product functionality ends. The product takes a step by step look at your traffic, via netflow export. The traffic is sampled throughout its flow through your network and makes QOS, route, and security recommendations that can be implemented automatically, or one at a time with a point and click.

Network QOS Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
Network L2/L3 Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
Network Security Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation

Cost is VERY high for what this product does, but it's worth it if you do not have all of the expertise to prioritize your network properly

LiveAction kept us from having to buy more bandwidth from our ISP due to overutilization. This saved our team over $600/month.
Had to turn off automatic network fixes as the product was a little overzealous with some of the changes implemented automatically moved back to manually implemented changes.
The product also allowed us to give great baselines for what we switching we need to upgrade, and what is still good.

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