Capture and analyze packet data

Key capabilities

Digital transformation

Digital transformation drives increased machine-to-machine, or east-west, traffic within data centers, most of which remains invisible to IT teams. These blind spots are prevalent and can be costly. Instead, LiveWire delivers:

• Granular insights to quickly identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across your traditional network and into virtual infrastructure.
• Easy and quick packet capture to automatically identify common issues, from Layer 2 to Layer 7, for networks, applications, VoIP, and Wi-Fi.
• Intelligent packet capture, which saves precious disk space by detecting encrypted traffic and automatically slicing off payloads when this feature is turned on.
• LiveFlow web analytics for enhanced flow data with specific web application metrics—such as URL or URI, page response times, and error response codes—even when traffic is encrypted. This provides key performance indicators for monitoring custom web applications.
• When flow information just isn’t enough, deep integration with LiveNX to transition from flow- to forensic-level packet-based analysis using a single software solution.

Ongoing, end-to-end monitoring

Application performance monitoring is critical for keeping your enterprise running smoothly, yet applications are being virtualized and migrated to the cloud at breakneck speed. This creates blind spots, leaving IT organizations dependent on flow logs and APIs for application performance monitoring. LiveWire helps you:

• Gain a holistic view of network and application events by converting packet data into rich flow-based data using telemetry. The data is automatically exported into LiveNX to quickly identify and resolve issues without the need for packet-level analysis.
• Eliminate time wasted reproducing a problem—packets record exactly what happened.
• Go directly to packet data to see application and network errors in packet payloads.

Enterprise-grade management

IT organizations struggle to find a cost-effective solution that provides visibility across large numbers of branches and remote locations. A solution is needed that can be widely distributed and easily managed, providing true end-to-end visibility. LiveWire offers:

• Enterprise-scale management of thousands of LiveWire devices with LiveWire Grid, a web-based management and configuration console.
• Dedicated, scalable software that extends flow-based network and application monitoring to data centers, the WAN edge, remote sites, branches, and the LAN.
• Scalable packet capture and forensic solutions on a single platform that can handle any network speed to easily identify and quickly resolve network issues with both flow and packet data.
• Packet storage that scales to your needs—LiveWire offers field-upgradable storage for its PowerCore appliances of up to 2+ PB of raw storage and 6+ PB of effective storage using compression and/or slicing.

Security incident response

When it comes to security incident response, there’s nothing more valuable than the packets themselves. You may have the finest intrusion prevention and detection and/or security event management solution available, but once the intrusion is found, what’s next? You need a recording of the activity—the network packets—to determine both the fingerprint and extent of the breach. With LiveWire, you get:

• Network packets that provide answers; meanwhile, security solutions only generate alerts.
• Line-rate packet capture with lossless capture-to-disk performance based on scalable hardware and software solutions.
• The ability to perform forensic searches on terabytes of data without disrupting high-speed storage.
• Scalable storage solutions for long-term packet retention, which ensures regulatory compliance and protects transaction integrity.

LiveWire Device Specifications

*Assumes a 3:1 data reduction through compression and/or intelligent slicing