LiveAction Routing: Implementing Policy-Based Routing On Your Network

Visualize, monitor, and control your routes across the network

LiveAction Routing provides real-time routing layer visualizations for Cisco networks that can identify reachability problems, routing loops and asymmetric paths that can affect traffic quality. In addition, the module’s policy-based routing viewer/editor provides a high degree of control over traffic policy allowing users to route traffic easily and predictably over user-specified paths.

LiveAction Routing Topology Level View

The Routing topology-level view makes it easy to visualize routing across your network. This visualization shows the routes of all devices in a graphical format. The route paths and the interfaces that are routing them are indicated by arrows. The directional arrows are also color coded to indicate whether the route is a static route or derived from a particular routing protocol. You can apply a filter to display routes based on specific protocols and/or destinations.

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Next-Hop Visualization

Next-Hop Routing visualization in the system topology view appears as a bold, light purple-colored line. If the destination address is not represented in the current set of network devices, LiveAction creates a new icon representing the destination device.

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LiveAction Routing Device Level View

The device-level view provides a graphical visualization of routes associated with a specific device. The route paths and the interfaces which route them are indicated by arrows. The directional arrows are also color coded to indicate whether the route is a static route or derived from a particular routing protocol.

The upper portion of the screen shows the device’s route table in tabular format. You can also apply a filter to display routes based on specific protocols and/or destinations.

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Policy-Based Routing

Policy-based routing allows you to specify the path that a flow with a specific destination address takes out of the router. With LiveAction you can create, edit, copy and delete policy-based route (PBR) maps and save these configurations directly to your router.

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Features

• System topology view of active routes
• Device route table views in graphical and tabular form
• Route display filtering by protocol
• Route display filtering by destination
• Virtual routing and forwarding visualizations and tables
• Export— exports route, route table, device forwarding tables to CSV files
• Troubleshooting—Shows routing loops and asymmetric routes, unstable conditions, black holes, error summarizations
• Policy-based routing (PBR)—Configuration/editing of PBR and Set statements, edit existing route map configurations, check for compliance with PBR rules, displays PBR usage, displays static routes and PBR issues, exports route map statistics

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