LiveAction General Specifications
Features and Specifications
Devices Supported
- Cisco series routers—800, 1800, 1900, 2600, 2600XM, 2800, 2900, 3600, 3700, 3800, 3900, 7200, 7600 (IOS 12.3, 12.4, 15)
- Cisco Catalyst switches—3900, 4500, 6500 series
- Cisco security devices (NetFlow only)—ASA 5500 series
- Most sFlow and J-Flow devices
Technology Module Options
The following are available for 10, 25, 50, or 100 devices:
- Flow
- QoS (monitor and configuration)
- Monitor suite: QoS (monitor only), Flow, Routing
- Master suite: QoS (monitor and configuration), Flow, Routing, IP SLA
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 1 GB minimum—2-4 GB recommended
- Disk space: 100 MB to install—20 GB recommended
Warranty and Support
- 90 day warranty and support including free upgrades
- Online technical support
- Annual software maintenance plans available
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
QoS Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- 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
QoS Configuration
- 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
Routing
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System level topology view of active routes
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Device route table views in graphical and tabular form
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Route display filtering by protocol
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Route display filtering by destination
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Virtual routing and forwarding visualizations and tables
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Export function—route and route table information, exports device forwarding tables to CSV file
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Troubleshooting—Routing loops and asymmetric routes,
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routing instabilities, black holes, error summarization
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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
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)


