*This offer is for a limited permanent license to use LiveAction software for managing up to three devices with LiveAction Flow plus Cisco Medianet performance monitoring and Mediatrace. Upgraded license keys for enabling additional devices, historical reporting, and other useful LiveAction features such as QoS monitoring, QoS configuration, Routing, and IP SLA VO, are available for purchase. Available for use in the United States and Canada only.

This special version of LiveAction is available FREE Through March 31, 2012

LiveAction Flow plus Cisco Medianet is a special three-device* version of our award-winning LiveAction software.
We are offering this absolutely free to introduce our new Cisco NetFlow and Cisco Medianet capabilities.

Product Information

Real-time flow visualizations and analysis for NetFlow, J-Flow, and sFlow

LiveAction Flow is the only product that generates live network topology views with end-to-end NetFlow, sFlow, and J-Flow visualizations of traffic across the network. Users can quickly drill down to individual devices or interfaces for more detail on flow characteristics such as IP addresses, DSCP values, byte rates and count, and Medianet performance monitoring. This makes it easy to visualize trouble spots on the network and gain a better understanding of traffic patterns.

Keith Parsons demonstrates our FREE version of LiveAction Flow plus Cisco Medianet.

Topology Level Flow View 

LiveAction generates amazingly clear and detailed topology views of your network allowing you to literally “see” device connections, routes, flows, interface bandwidth, and more—all in real time. The interactive display lets you pan, zoom, and drag individual network elements across the screen for an even better view.

Device Level View

Dive deep into the setup and activity within your switch or router. See flows entering, traversing, and exiting the device. View the whole picture or use filters to display specific items.

Interface Level View

Need even more detail? Click down to the interface view and observe actual traffic performance in real time with the most detailed and visually-intuitive monitoring tool ever developed for Cisco Devices.

Track your Medianet Sessions with Mediatrace

Cisco Mediatrace helps to isolate and troubleshoot network degradation problems with monitoring capabilities for collecting information on a hop-by-hop basis. This includes statistics for flows, utilization of incoming and outgoing interfaces, CPU and system memory utilization, as well as any changes to IP routes or the Mediatrace monitoring state. LiveAction takes Cisco Medianet one step further by showing you Mediatrace flows graphically across your network and providing a table of Mediatrace statistics for your devices.

Use LiveAction's Mediatrace visualizations and reporting to manage your Medianet traffic across the network.

Extract more information with Medianet Performance Monitoring

Cisco Performance Monitor delivers the data points that are essential for performance assurance, fault management, and capacity planning without the need for additional hardware. LiveAction supports performance monitoring including collecting and displaying TCP and RTP metrics such as delay, loss and jitter.

LiveAction displays Medianet performance monitoring information in addition to standard NetFlow data from your Medianet enabled devices.

Key LiveAction Flow Features

• Topology-based traffic flow view
• Supports NetFlow v5 and v9, sFlow, and J-Flow
• Medianet performance monitoring
• Medianet Mediatrace monitoring and visualizations
• Aggregate flow or individual flow views
• Display end points as host IP address, host name, application port name or number
• X-Ray view of flows inside router
• Ability to filter flows
• Sortable flow table
• Start, stop and pause flow data
• Adjustable flow polling rates
• Flow graph—by port, source or destination address
• Built in DNS name resolution

Benefits

• Faster troubleshooting of the network
• Ability to view flows across the network
• Ability to pinpoint entry and exit of flows
• Improved visibility and understanding of the flows

System Requirements

• Network connection
   
• Operating system (note .NET framework is required for operation)
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit only)
  • Windows 7 Professional (64-bit only)
  • Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit only)
• CPU
  • Pentium 4 class, 1 GHz minimum
  • 2-3 GHz quad-core recommended
• System RAM
  • 8 GB recommended
• Disk space
  • 500 MB

Router and Switch Compatibility for LiveAction Flow

LiveAction has been tested for use with the following devices:

Cisco Series Routers 

• ASR 1000, 800, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2600, 2600XM, 2800, 2900, 3600, 3700, 3800, 3900, 7200, 7600
• IOS versions 12.3, 12.4, 15.0 and 15.1 have been tested and are recommended for use with the software (IOS XE 2.6.0 for ASR 1000 series). Earlier IOS versions may also work but are not officially supported.
• General-release IOS versions are recommended, although early- and limited-release versions will also work with the software.

High-End Cisco Routers

• Limited compatibility tests have been done with the 10000 series and 12000 series routers, but these are not officially supported at this time.

Cisco Series Switches

• Limited compatibility tests has been done with the Catalyst 3000, 4500, and 6500 series switches.
• Some aspects of QoS can be set up on Layer 3-routable interfaces and VLANs.
• NetFlow can be set up to work with Catalyst 6500 and 4500 switches.

Cisco Security Devices

• ASA 5500 Series running 8.3 (limited to NetFlow support only)

Non-Cisco Devices (Flow analysis only)

The following is a list of non-Cisco devices that have gone through limited Flow-analysis testing with LiveAction:

• Alcatel, Extreme, Foundry, Hewlett-Packard, Juniper, NetVanta, Riverbed Steelhead, Nortel.
  Other devices that support NetFlow, IPFIX or sFlow data formats may also work

Compatibility for Cisco Medianet Performance Monitoring and Mediatrace

• Requires Cisco Medianet capable devices with IOS version 15.1 (3) T