Live Action is proud to announce the release of LiveWire 25.1 and LiveNX 25.1, two powerful solutions designed to work in tandem to provide enhanced visibility, proactive troubleshooting, and automated security intelligence. These releases bring significant advancements in DNS/DHCP analysis, security assurance for firewalls and load balancers, packet capture performance, and cloud-friendly deployment options, ensuring organizations can manage complex networks with confidence.
Unified Network Intelligence: What’s New?
1. Comprehensive DNS/DHCP Visibility & Performance Monitoring
LiveWire 25.1 introduces new DNS/DHCP Experts that analyze performance and detect critical issues such as slow response times, frequent retransmissions, request storms, and low lease times. This empowers network operators to proactively address inefficiencies before they impact end users.
Building on these insights, LiveNX 25.1 debuts the DDI Dashboard, which centralizes DNS/DHCP health metrics, providing a real-time DDI health score. LiveNX leverages Open Telemetry (OTEL) events from LiveWire, ensuring seamless visibility and faster troubleshooting across the entire network infrastructure.
2. Enhanced Security & Proactive Firewall and Load Balancer Monitoring
With LiveNX Assurance–Network Security, organizations gain advanced monitoring and automated troubleshooting for firewalls and load balancers. Key capabilities include:
Firewall Health Monitoring:
- Preventive Health Checking: LiveNX Assurance proactively detects and resolves issues before they impact services, using machine learning to identify anomalies like asymmetric routing and flow policy denials.
- External Critical Services: Monitors firewall dependencies on external sources (IP addresses, URLs, domains) to ensure up-to-date threat intelligence and prevent security gaps.
- High Availability Assurance: Identifies configuration mismatches and connectivity issues in clustered firewalls for seamless failover.
- Security Risk Detection: Uses automation and security control validations to detect compliance violations and enhance security posture.
- Automated Troubleshooting: Performs root cause analysis and provides actionable remediation to minimize downtime and optimize network performance.
Load Balancer Health Monitoring:
- Preventive Health Checking: LiveNX Assurance monitors both virtual and physical components to prevent issues before they escalate. It detects common problems like unavailable pool members, high latency, SNAT pool exhaustion, and virtual server downtime. Machine learning identifies anomalies in connection counts, signaling potential DDoS attacks, traffic surges, or misconfigurations.
- Misconfiguration Detection: Continuously verifies devices, virtual servers, and dependent services against best practices from F5 and experts to prevent downtime and ensure seamless application delivery.
- Automated Maintenance Tasks: Streamlines critical infrastructure upkeep by automating regular tasks like configuration backups and certificate renewals, preventing oversight and ensuring optimal system health.
These new preventive health checks and automated troubleshooting workflows shift network security from reactive to proactive, reducing MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution) and ensuring maximum uptime.
3. Advanced Network Analytics and Real-Time Monitoring
- LiveNX 25.1 enhances anomaly detection with Dynamic Baseline for Network Delay Alerts, which adapts based on historical trends rather than static thresholds.
- LiveNX 25.1 brings expanded alerting capabilities with multi-instance support for Jitter and Packet Loss.
- LiveWire 25.1 introduces UDP Support for Multi-Segment Analysis, expanding visibility into key UDP-based services such as VoIP (SIP/RTP), IoT traffic, and DNS/DHCP communications.
4. Cloud-Ready Deployments & Scalable Infrastructure
Both LiveWire and LiveNX continue to evolve to support modern IT infrastructures:
- LiveWire Core moves to the latest Dell platform, delivering improved packet capture efficiency, processing power, and energy efficiency.
- LiveNX 25.1 is now available in AWS Marketplace as a BYOL (Bring Your Own License) option, making it easier for enterprises to deploy in the cloud.
- Both solutions now support Nutanix, offering greater flexibility for hyperconverged environments.
- LiveWire introduces enhanced compression for edge, virtual, and container deployments, optimizing storage and transmission efficiency.
Elevate your network with LiveAction
With LiveNX and LiveWire 25.1, LiveAction continues to lead the way in network observability and intelligent solutions. These updates reflect our commitment to empowering IT teams with the tools they need to optimize operations, enhance performance, and meet the demands of a rapidly evolving digital world.