Application Delivery and Troubleshooting with LiveAction’s LiveNX and LiveWire with Keysight
Complex network environments require simple monitoring solutions, and enterprises lean on LiveAction’s LiveNX and LiveWire to provide a single source of truth for effectively monitoring and managing network performance and security. By leveraging Keysight’s intelligent network delivery platform to capture and intelligently route high-fidelity packets or streams of network traffic, LiveAction LiveWire and LiveNX provide an intuitive and powerful method to monitor, manage, and troubleshoot application and network performance for today’s enterprise IT environments, providing benefits in the following areas:
- Hybrid WAN/SD-WAN Monitoring and Service Assurance
- Cloud Monitoring
- Application Performance and Troubleshooting
- Voice and Video Optimization
- QoS Configuration and Validation
- Root Cause Analysis
- Comprehensive Packet Analytics for Multi-Domain
- Capacity Planning and WAN Bandwidth Management
How the Joint Solution Works
LiveNX unifies network telemetry from many different sources into a single view of the enterprise network. Keysight physical (copper, fiber, industrial) and virtual TAPs capture traffic anywhere in the network and forward it to Keysight purpose-built network packet brokers (NPBs) for processing and streamlined delivery to LiveAction solutions.
Figure 1: Keysight and LiveAction Joint Solution (On-Premises)
LiveNX effectively monitors application network performance by leveraging LiveWire’s packet capture analysis with deep packet inspection (DPI) visibility for enterprise networks and cloud environments. LiveNX uses SNMP to monitor device health, QoS, and other KPIs, along with APIs from SD-WAN and other fabrics, to verify performance and network intent. IPFIX and NetFlow are used for advanced application performance monitoring, conversational data, and now Keysight Flow. LiveNX can also be paired with ITSM solutions like ServiceNow for full operational excellence.
Employing a variety of data sources, LiveNX visualizes flows across your network topology so you can understand what is happening in your network and the impact on application performance.
Key features of the joint LiveAction and Keysight solution include:
Easy Analysis of Traffic from Physical Networks: LiveAction provides end-to-end visibility across the network. Keysight’s visibility platform enables traffic from across the network to be managed and delivered to LiveAction efficiently via packets and flow.
Easy Analysis of Traffic from Virtual Networks: East-West data center traffic for virtual environments like VMware, OpenStack, AWS, and Azure is growing rapidly. Keysight captures this traffic and delivers it to LiveNX via LiveWire, ensuring all network traffic can be monitored and analyzed together. This helps organizations avoid blind spots, increasing the likelihood of spotting suspicious behaviors and removing the need to learn a new set of tools for virtual environments.
Efficiently Analyze Relevant Traffic with Intelligent Filtering: Users can focus on specific traffic of interest with LiveAction’s integration with Keysight. Keysight can be configured to only send relevant traffic, or relevant sessions as needed, for a specific use case.
Analysis of Flow Metadata for Application Visibility: LiveNX can consume unsampled NetFlow/IPFIX metadata for any traffic flow from Keysight at scale. Keysight generates extended metadata records for metrics like HTTP hostnames and DNS queries, providing a far more detailed contextual analysis when looking at network and security events.
Joint Solution Benefits
- Delivering packets and IPFIX from Keysight to LiveWire and LiveNX provides a deep understanding of application flows across the network, including virtual environments
- Delivers real time visibility and expert analysis for application and network performance across the data center and the cloud
- Generating NetFlow/IPFIX from any traffic flow avoids unnecessary processing on network devices and extends visibility to any location or flow within the network
- De-duplicating, aggregating, filtering, and offloading packet processing provides LiveWire with an optimized packet data source to accurately represent network flows
Additional Resources
LiveAction and Keysight Joint Solution Brief
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