
LiveAction announced a major advancement in its network management software by releasing LiveAction 4.0.
LiveAction 4.0 brings increased scalability to enable network administrators the ability to see thousands of devices across their entire network on a single pane of glass. LiveAction 4.0 provides centralized visibility and management enhancements while leveraging the intuitive user interface and robust troubleshooting capabilities that LiveAction has become known for.
“See. Point. Click. Fix” has just gotten bigger with LiveAction 4.0 as network administrators can easily troubleshoot and resolve network performance issues in complex enterprise networks containing multiple data centers and geographically dispersed branch offices.
“Our goal is to help simplify network management for our clients and LiveAction 4.0 helps us take the ease and simplicity of LiveAction to a whole new level,” said Darren T. Kimura, CEO of LiveAction.
The new release also includes distributed analytics providing reports, dashboards, alerts and search.
“LiveAction 4.0 provides a single pane of glass for the entire network bringing central management and coordination of nodes, distributed analytics management and device interaction and configuration,” said John K. Smith, Chief Technology Officer of LiveAction.
The LiveAction team will provide demonstrations and hands-on test drives of LiveAction 4.0 at Cisco Live 2014. Show attendees visiting LiveAction booth 821 will see and experience LiveAction 4.0 new feature enhancements, including:
- Single-pane-of-glass visibility and management for tens of thousands of devices
- Large network topology, end-to-end path analysis through visualization for large-scale deployments
- Device grouping allowing common operations across multiple devices with ease
- Bulk discovery enhancements enabling faster and automatic detection of devices
- Bulk configuration enhancements for groups of devices and sites
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