LiveAction Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

We use LiveNa to take in our netflow data across many sites and look for an abnormalities or issues based on the traffic patterns. It then creates a incident in our ticketing system for an engineer to review the alert. We also use it for the graphs it provides to track data usage.

LiveNA is great if you have many different sites and arent sure where data bottle necks are or how to identify other issues based on traffic usages. Its not that great if you only have a single site or have very small bandwidth sites and do not have a ton of traffic.

We use LiveAction in basically two departments, infrastructure operations (primarily in the QoS arena) and security operations (Netflow data). As the IT security manager, I use it primarily for network overview and netflow data monitoring. It is a great product to give me insight to our overall network architecture and where I can drill down to those areas I need further detail. Its ability to give me the granularity to further investigate possible security incidents is valuable.

Again, I use the product simply from a network flow perspective since security is my focus. In conjunction with a product like Wireshark, LiveAction gives me the visibility into the live data coming across our network. From what my IO Group tells me, it is a great QoS monitoring tool for day to day management.