A comprehensive network can be hard to diagnose. A new edge offering from LiveAction brings visibility to the dark corners of a network—places that traditional monitoring tools may not be able to reach. The LiveNX 8 product integrates flow data with packet capture and analysis. This enables organizations to identify the root cause of network issues and determine the corrective course of action. LiveNX 8 also automates existing workflows and curtails the need for numerous tools to efficiently and effectively manage increasingly complex networks.
“When we acquired Savvius earlier this year we promised to give customers the most powerful end-to-end NPMD platform they’d ever seen. With the release of LiveNX 8 and LiveWire, we’re delivering the ability to efficiently navigate from visual topology views down into packet data for real-time problem isolation and resolution – all in one intuitive interface,” says Brooks Borcherding, CEO at LiveAction. “This innovative offering provides NetOps teams with advanced visual analytics and a seamless network management experience to help them keep up with the ever-increasing demands of the business.”
“As networks continue to become more complex, NetOps teams need management solutions that gather and distill multiple data sets into visualizations that allow them to isolate and solve problems faster,” adds Zeus Kerravala, principle analyst at ZK Research. “The integration of packet capture and analysis with LiveNX’s deep flow expertise delivers a major competitive differentiator in the market. Not only does it improve IT efficiency by enabling tool consolidation, but it allows NetOps and IT Service Management to automate workflows and speed incident resolution. The acquisition of Savvius has accelerated LiveAction’s ability to deliver a next-gen network management solution that is redefining what the industry expects, in regard to breadth and depth, from a single enterprise platform.”
Some of the new features offered by LiveNX 8 include:
- Support for Cisco SD-WAN on both vEdge (Viptela) and cEdge (ISR/ASR) routers, providing superior overlay visibility for planning, verifying and operationalizing SDN deployments.
- Additional Cisco Application Visibility and Control (AVC) reports added for richer visibility of application usage and subscriber behavior.
- Introduction of Executive Reporting capabilities for scheduled or ad hoc distribution to key stake holders and management organizations.
- Logical topology enhancements to the Operations Dashboard that enable the creation of multiple topology visualizations for tracking application paths and QoS markings in the WAN for service assurance.
- Added Custom Triggers for Alerting support in the Operations Dashboard for tracking device level per-queue QoS performance and syslog notifications for advanced notice on issues impacting the business.
- Improved device management including SNMP credential pooling for rapid onboarding and Time to Value.
- Additional custom and template Dashboard options for a tailored Network Operations Center (NOC) view.
- Integration updates with ServiceNow, Cisco DNA Center and Cisco’s Identity Service Engine (ISE).
- New Omnipeek capabilities for integrated workflow drill down into packet analysis, reducing mean time to incident resolution.
- Extended Omnipeek analysis for Financial Transaction Card message Interchange protocol (ISO8583).
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