LiveAction Software Overview

 

All-in-One Intelligent Situational Awareness
and Control For Your Network

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Achieve expert level understanding and mastery of your network

LiveAction software provides an intelligent and refreshingly different approach to network management. Combining extensive device knowledge with rich network visualizations, LiveAction captures your actual router and switch configurations to build a highly interactive “mental model” of your network. For the first time ever, you can literally “see” flows, routes, and QoS policies operating in real time—across your network topology and deep inside your devices. The result is an incredibly true and relevant understanding of your network for fast and accurate troubleshooting and highly informed decision making.

 

LiveAction system topology view with NetFlow

 

Benefits of LiveAction

  • Unsurpassed live situational awareness, visualization, and control of your network
  • An All-in-One solution for QoS, NetFlow, Routing, and IP SLA
  • A highly intuitive interface providing easy mastery of complex technologies and device configuration
  • Enhanced network security monitoring and policy management
  • Full utilization of network and device features for a greater return on existing investments
  • Increased proficiency, accuracy, and efficiency for network engineers at all levels of experience
  • Numerous built-in templates, wizards, and user operations that are fully compliant with Cisco best practices
  • Easy two-minute installation on a standard PC—no appliances required

 

What is LiveAction?

LiveAction is a modular software system that combines an extensive device knowledgebase with a highly intuitive user interface to provide real-time situational awareness for network design, deployment, and troubleshooting. LiveAction is also the first product that actually makes Cisco routers easy to use. After a simple two minute installation on a standard PC or laptop, network engineers, regardless of their experience level, can immediately start to configure Cisco routers and troubleshoot live networks with complete ease and confidence. Currently LiveAction is available with technology modules for QoS, NetFlow, Routing, and IP SLA.
 

What makes LiveAction different?

ActionPacked! Networks realized that even CCIE level engineers will never be able to exploit the full potential of their networks and devices using the CLI or other rudimentary tools. After years of painstaking research of the commands, features, and even behavioral idiosyncacies of Cisco devices, ActionPacked! engineers developed LiveAction software as a solution to turn this problem completely inside out. As a result, the same complicated network devices have now become a friendly, enabling technology. 
 
 

Additional Benefits

 

Get your IT staff up to speed in record time

It takes considerable certification training and hands on practice to build a quality IT department. But in reality this is expensive, difficult to sustain, and not very efficient. With LiveAction, network engineers can easily perform deep device configuration and monitoring regardless of their experience level. This increases the capabilities of less experienced staff while allowing highly experienced engineers to make better use of their valuable time and expertise.

 

Modular architecture for future needs

LiveAction is a flexible and scalable system that allows you to choose what you need, when you need it. This includes the number of devices you want to manage and the technology modules you want to use. Currently LiveAction supports QoS, NetFlow, Routing, and IP SLA for Cisco routers and switches, and development is continually underway to support many more technologies and devices.

 

Historical Reporting for NetFlow and QoS

In addition to providing real-time views, LiveAction also captures NetFlow and QoS data on a daily basis so you can visually recreate detailed network conditions from the past for any date and time you specify. Historical reporting provides information that is essential for forensics, troubleshooting and spotting trends in network activity.

 

Interactive troubleshooting

Achieve faster troubleshooting of your network—Starting with the topology view you can instantly spot congested devices and interfaces on the network by their amber color. Double-clicking on these areas provides more detailed information and viewing options for troubleshooting down to the device and interface levels.