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LiveAction

Score8.2 out of 10

18 Reviews and Ratings

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What is LiveAction?

LiveAction’s LiveNX is a network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It supports packet-level, network-wide visibility and proactive alerts. It can be deployed on-premise, virtually, or in the cloud.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features LiveAction has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 18 ratings of LiveAction's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Customizable reports

    Ability to schedule, generate, and deliver custom performance and availability reports

    Category average: 7.2

  • Wireless infrastructure monitoring

    Ability to monitor wireless access points, controllers, and connected clients

    Category average: 7.6

  • Automated network device discovery

    Automated network device discovery allows all devices in the environment to be found and tracked

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Network capacity planning

    Capacity planning analyzes interface utilization, disk usage, etc. and allows identification of capacity problems well in advance of threshold breach

    Category average: 7.9

  • Hardware health monitoring

    Ability to monitor key hardware metrics including temperature, fan speed, and power supply

    Category average: 9

  • Baseline threshold calculation

    Calculation of baseline thresholds so to establish warning thresholds

    Category average: 8.3

Reviews

What users are saying about LiveAction.
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Great for traffic tracking

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • Alerting on issues before they become critical
  • taking in data from many different sites

Cons

  • Cost
  • integrating with other data management tools

Most Important Features

  • Compiling data from many different devices
  • tracking traffic

Return on Investment

  • able to see bottle necks before they become an issue

IT Security Manager's LIveAction Review

Incentivized
Randy ZuehlkeView profile
IT Security Manager in Information Technology at Reynolds, Smith and Hills (RS&H) (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Architecture overview with drill down capability by device.
  • Detailed reporting of network traffic by type.
  • Great filtering capability which allows granular capture and review of different data types.
  • Great QoS functionality (Although I personally do not use it since mine is a primarily security function). Our infrastructure operations group utilizes it in that vein.

Cons

  • I use it primarily as a monitoring tool from a security standpoint, so one complaint is that the filter creation process takes a little time to learn.
  • In the digital days of printing less, I do still need to print network diagrams for compliance documentation and some of the larger network diagrams documents do not print easily.
  • I wish the network connection lines were easier to see. They are typically very light and you have to drill down to see them more clearly.

Return on Investment

  • Real time insight to network issues whether security related or not.
  • Great reporting features for executives.

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Network Device Monitor

Other Software Used

Wireshark, Citrix NetScaler Access Gateway, Cisco Cloud Email Security

LiveAction: The Middle of the Road Solution to Network Analysis

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Packet tracing and diagnostics.
  • The visual analytics in the dashboard were good.

Cons

  • Better analytics
  • More historical views

Return on Investment

  • Packet analysis allows us to proactive.
  • Understanding of network traffic

Alternatives Considered

ExtraHop Performance Platform and PRTG Network Monitor

Other Software Used

ExtraHop Performance Platform, PRTG Network Monitor, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE

Live Action LiveNX - Worth the money!

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Network QOS Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
  • Network L2/L3 Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
  • Network Security Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation

Cons

  • Cost is VERY high for what this product does, but it's worth it if you do not have all of the expertise to prioritize your network properly

Return on Investment

  • LiveAction kept us from having to buy more bandwidth from our ISP due to overutilization. This saved our team over $600/month.
  • Had to turn off automatic network fixes as the product was a little overzealous with some of the changes implemented automatically moved back to manually implemented changes.
  • The product also allowed us to give great baselines for what we switching we need to upgrade, and what is still good.

Other Software Used

Tableau Server, Secret Server