LiveAction General Requirements & Specifications

LiveAction Products and Options

The following products are available for use with 10, 25, 50, 100, or 200 devices.
LiveAction All-In-One QoS Expert Provisioner also available as a 5 device "Starter Pack"


Single Module QoS Products

  • LiveAction QoS Monitor
  • LiveAction QoS Configure
  • LiveAction Flow
  • LiveAction Routing
  • LiveAction IP SLA


All-In-One QoS Expert
Includes the following modules

  • QoS Monitor
  • Flow
  • Routing
  • IP SLA


All-In-One QoS Expert Provisioner
Includes the following modules

  • QoS Configure
  • QoS Monitor
  • Flow
  • Routing
  • IP SLA

Network Devices Supported

Cisco Series Routers

Models 800, 1800, 1900, 2600, 2600 XM, 2800, 2900, 3600, 3700, 3800, 3900, 7200, 7600, ASR 1000

  • 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

Cisco Series Switches

Catalyst Models 3500, 3700, 4500, and 6500 series switches.

  • Some aspects of QoS can be set up on Layer 3-routable interfaces and VLANs
    (no Layer 2 QoS configuration)
  • NetFlow can be set up to work with Catalyst 6500 and 4500 switches

Cisco Security Devices

Model ASA 5500 Series running 8.3

  • NetFlow support only

Non-Cisco Devices

The following are non-Cisco devices that have gone through some flow-analysis testing with LiveAction. Note that only LiveAction flow analysis is available for these products.

  • Alcatel
  • Extreme
  • Foundry
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • Juniper
  • NetVanta

System Requirements

  • Network connection
  • Operating system:
    • Windows 32-bit—Server 2003 SP2, Server 2008 R2, XP Professional, 7 Professional and Ultimate
    • Windows 64-bit—Server 2003 SP2, Server 2008 R2, 7 Professional and Ultimate
  • CPU
    • Pentium 4 class, 1 GHz minimum
    • 2-3 GHz dual- or quad-core recommended
  • System RAM
    • 2 GB minimum
    • 3-4 GB recommended
  • Disk space
    • 200 MB to install
    • 20 GB or more recommended for historical capture

Maintenance and Support

  • Annual software maintenance plans available
  • Online technical support provided

Individual LiveAction Module Key Features


LiveAction QoS Monitor

  • Rate-based NBAR graphs
  • Pre- and post-QoS graphs
  • Peak and average rate statistics
  • Class and interface drop graphs
  • Congestion indicators
  • Built in CBQoS MIB viewer
  • Custom NBAR definitions
  • Hierarchical policy graphs
  • NBAR unknown port debugging
  • GRE tunnel visualization
  • Automatic QoS graph resync on policy changes
  • Unknown port discovery
  • View QoS graphs across routers
  • Topology-based QoS state
  • Historical views and reporting
  • Extreme low level graphs of CBQoS statistics

LiveAction QoS Configure

  • Full MQC QoS configuration support including WRED,  CBQoS, Priority Queueing
  • Ability to read existing QoS policies on the router
  • Take snapshots of current configuration for future use
  • Rollback to previous policies at anytime
  • Apply or remove QoS configurations quickly and easily  across multiple interfaces
  • Ability to push policies to multiple devices
  • Hierarchical policy creation for advanced configurations
  • Custom NBAR based matches including HTTP URL,  MIME, HOST and RTP protocols
  • Build in ACL editor
  • CLI command preview
  • Built-in rules for QoS settings that highlight violations
  • Graphical inbound and outbound QoS editors
  • WAN shaping support

LiveAction Flow

  • Topology-based traffic flow view
  • Supports NetFlow, sFlow, and J-Flow
  • Aggregate flow or individual flow views
  • Display end points as host IP address, host name,  application port name or number
  • Top 200 flows from each device
  • X-Ray view of flows inside router
  • Ability to filter flows
  • Works in MIB and Collector modes
  • 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
  • Historical views, reporting, and playback

LiveAction Routing

  • System level 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 function—route and route table information,  exports device forwarding tables to CSV file
  • Troubleshooting—Routing loops and asymmetric routes,
  • routing instabilities, black holes, error summarization
  • 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

LiveAction IP SLA

  • Latency, loss, jitter, MOS performance measurements
  • Test Types: HTTP, Jitter, Echo, UDP Echo
  • Traffic type configuration
  • Protocol type: over 10 protocol types
  • DHCP: destination, source, circuit ID, remote ID, subnet  mask
  • IP SLA topology view (real-time)
  • Quick and full test options
  • Set up responder at destination
  • Edit, save, delete test configurations.
  • Export to CSV file
  • Historical reporting (live update plotted over timeline)