LiveAction QoS Monitor provides quality of service (QoS) monitoring and troubleshooting for Cisco routers and switches.

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Effortless quality of service monitoring for live networks
Pre- and Post-QoS Monitoring
The interface panel displays both the Input (ingress) and Output (egress) traffic for individual interfaces showing traffic before and after QoS
is applied.
LiveAction QoS Monitor provides quality of service (QoS)
monitoring and troubleshooting for Cisco routers and switches.
The software empowers IT engineers of all experience levels to
effectively monitor and validate new or existing QoS policies on live
networks with complete ease and confidence.
LiveAction QoS Monitor enables a detailed understanding of QoS
performance for individual interfaces, applications, and classes. In
addition, LiveAction includes real-time QoS dashboard, historical
views, and various reports.
Why LiveAction QoS Monitor?
Although QoS is built into Cisco routers and switches, many IT
departments lack the resources or time to master this complex
technology. Through QoS performance tracking and congestion
indicator visualization, LiveAction QoS Monitor provides extensive
performance analyses and makes it easy for IT engineers to fully
implement and understand Cisco QoS on their networks.
Key Features and Benefits
• Ease of use—LiveAction’s intuitive graphical interface replaces
command lines with real time graphs and an easy-to-
understand policy viewer.
• Visually audit network QoS— Push button policy and
performance audit report analyzes QoS configurations for
errors and performance issues and details this information
in an easy-to- navigate report. The software’s graphical
presentations show QoS policies and performance from
system topology down to the individual interface and even the
queue level.
• Proactive monitoring—detect and alert on critical policy drops
before problems are reported by end users.
• Fine tune QoS performance—granular real-time and historical
QoS performance monitoring for optimizing application
performance.
• Instant validation—Real-time QoS charting at intervals as short
as 10 seconds enables quick validation of policy changes.
• Enhanced reporting - 95th
/99th
percentile and long term
reports enable more accurate comparison to service provider
billing.

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Features and Specifications
QoS Monitoring
• Rate-based NBAR graphs
• Pre- and post-QoS graphs
• Hardware QoS stats and information
• Peak and average rate statistics
• Class and interface drop graphs
• Congestion indicators across network topology
• Built in CBQoS MIB viewer
• Detailed graphical policy viewer (displays settings for
classification, marking, queueing, policing, shaping,
compression and WRED)
• Custom NBAR definitions
• Hierarchical policy graphs
• NBAR unknown port debugging
• GRE tunnel visualization
• Automatic QoS graph resync on policy changes
• Layer 2 QoS monitoring support for Catalyst 6500 and
• 7600
• Nexus 7K monitoring
Additional Reporting
• Historical views and reporting
• Very detailed graphs of CBQoS statistics
• 24-hr, 48-hr, and snapshot HTML reports
• Visual, audible, and email alerts on interface and class drops
• QoS scheduler, email notification of report
• Performance analysis based thresholds
• True end-to-end workflow with alerts, visualization, analysis,
and control
• NBAR2 MIB graphs
• 95th
/99th
percentile and long term reports
Troubleshooting
• Push-button policy and performance audit report
• Unknown port discovery
• View QoS graphs across routers
• Topology-based QoS state
• Graphically view and understand policies deployed across the
network
• Drill down from alerts to applicable flows
• QoS policy viewer, CLI preview
• Instant validation of QoS policy changes
Devices Supported
Cisco Series Routers
• 800, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2600, 2600XM, 2800, 2900, 3600,
3700, 3800, 3900, 4000, 7200, 7600, ASR 1000, CSR 1000V
• Recommended IOS versions 12.3 or higher or 15.0 or higher
for use with the software. (IOS XE 2.6.0 or higher for ASR 1000
series). Earlier IOS versions may work but are not officially
supported.
• General release IOS versions are recommended, although
early and limited release versions will also work.
Cisco Series Switches
• Catalyst 2960, 2960-X, 3560, 3650, 3750, 3850, 4500, and
6500 series switches
• Nexus 7000
• Some aspects of QoS can be set up on Layer 3-routable
interfaces and VLANs (no Layer 2 QoS configuration)
• NetFlow can be used with Catalyst 3650, 3850, 6500 and
4500 switches. NetFlow Lite on 2960-X/XR. Please consult
Cisco’s feature navigator for specific hardware requirements.
Cisco Security Devices
• ASA 5500 Series running 8.3 (NetFlow support only)
• ASR 1000 Zone-Based Firewall High-Speed Logging
Cisco Other
• NetFlow Generation Appliance (NGA)
Non-Cisco Devices (Flow analysis only)
• Alcatel, Extreme, Brocade, Hewlett-Packard, Juniper,
NetVanta, nProbe, Gigamon, Ixia
System Requirements
Client
• Windows 7, Windows 8 or Mac OSX 64-bit OS
• 4 Cores
• 8 GB RAM
Server/Node
• Windows Server 64 bit 2012, 2008
• Windows 7 64 bit
• Linux RHEL/CENTOS 6.4 or 6.5 with GNOME UI installed
• For less than 100 devices or less than 100K flows/sec
° 8 Core 2+ GHz CPU
° 8 GB RAM
° 2-6 TB 7,200 RPM HD1
• For 100-500 devices or less than 200K flows/sec
° 12 Core, 2+ GHz CPU
° 16 GB RAM
° 3-10 TB 7,200 RPM HD1
• For 500-1,000 devices
° 2x12 Core, 2+GHz CPU
° 16 GB RAM
° 5-10 TB, 7,200+ RPM HD1
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Depending on network traffic pattern. For higher performance use RAID 10
or RAID 0 if redundancy is not required
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3. Large circles indicate devices (routers, switches)
Small circles indicate individual interfaces
• Dark green color indicates QoS policy is applied
to interface
• Amber color indicates congestion
• LiveAction displays input and output bandwidth
for each interface.
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Features and Specifications
QoS Topology View
LiveAction automatically generates a live topology view when you use the system to monitor network
devices. It also identifies the interfaces in each of the devices and their network IP connections.
LiveAction QoS displays congestion and bandwidth usage from a live system level topology and allows
users to drill down to view individual device and interface performance and policies.
Contact LiveAction
LiveAction
3945 Freedom Circle, Suite 360
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Phone and eFAX: +1 888-881-1116
Email: sales@liveaction.com
Web site: www.liveaction.com
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Software are trademarks of LiveAction, Inc. Information subject to change without notice.
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