What Network Monitoring Tools are Needed in Network Operations
Network Operations Needs a Variety of Network Monitoring Tools for Optimizing
To effectively monitoring and troubleshoot network issues, Network Operations teams need a host of tools to proactively identify and quickly resolve network server monitoring issues. The LiveNX platform combines all the essential network monitoring tools together into a single platform. These include, patented visual analytics and reporting, flow analysis, and packet analysis.
Visual Analytics and Reporting
Get full visibility across your entire network with our network visibility tools:
- Network topology mapper
- Network performance dashboard
- Network performance analytics
- Network performance reporting
Flow Analysis
Collect, normalize, and analyze flow data to manage network visibility across multiple vendors and technologies (NetFlow, J-Flow, IPFIX and more):
- Rich visual display of flow paths across the entire network
- Isolate jitter, latency and packet loss
- Trace application conversations across the network
Packet Analysis
Capture and analyze packet data from anywhere within the network (NOCs, branches, data centers and more):
- WiFi performance analysis
- Network forensics
- VoiP quality analysis (MOS score)
- Historic playback of network traffic
- Expert system guided investigations
Network Monitoring Tool Types
LiveAction integrates network monitoring solutions into a single platform.
Network Performance Dashboards
Network performance dashboards are vital to network monitoring tools for providing network monitoring across your entire network. Dashboards are the centerpieces to identify network issues quickly or even before they happen. The LiveAction network monitoring software rolls information up to a single view for all data types, such as flow, packet, and SNMP.
Network Performance Reporting
Networks monitoring tools are not complete without network monitoring reports and the LiveAction platform incorporates these within a single solution. Network monitoring reports can be either real-time or historic. These reports allow you to go from days manually pulling reports together to just a few clicks, saving time. Network monitoring reports vary from capacity planning reports to operational reports, and executive dashboards.
NetFlow Analyzer
An essential component of network monitoring tools is a NetFlow analyzer, or more generically speaking, flow data analyzer. The LiveAction platform supports a wide range of flow data, such as NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow, and IPFIX, and support flow from every major network provider, including Cisco, Aruba, and Juniper, to name a few.
Packet Analyzer
While mentioned last in the discussion on network monitoring tools, it certainly is not the least in terms of importance. An integrated packet analyzer is used to capture and analyze packet data from anywhere within the network (NOCs, branches, data centers and more) and surface this data in a single user interface (UI).
Reviewed by Network Professionals
Rating of 4.7 out of 5
Great tool, easy to use, friendly interface and does the job
“This tool fills a gap in our network monitoring and analysis toolset. This gives us the capability to finally utilize some logs that were difficult to query and also allows us to validate QOS policies.”
— Executive Director of IT Operations, Education Industry
Excellent Product, very stable, could use some flow alerting improvements
“This product is simply amazing. I have researched for the past 2 years and have not found another product that performs the functionality that LiveAction provides. It handles everything extremely well, is very fast and capable.”
— Network Performance Engineer, Manufacturing Industry
Implementation and training were easy and the support is fantastic.
‘The LiveNX product has been easy to install and maintain and has provided valuable feedback and insight to our traffic engineering and overall quality of service. They provide the best support in the industry.”
— IT Director, Infrastructure, Infrastructure and Operations
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