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QoS Configure DatasheetIntuitive QoS Control for Complex Networks

LiveAction QoS Configure is a software application for configuring and troubleshooting quality of service (QoS) for Cisco routers and switches. The software empowers IT engineers of all experience levels to create, edit, and implement highly effective QoS policies on live networks with complete ease and confidence. Two versions of LiveAction QoS are available individually or in QoS Expert packages for all-in-one QoS management:

Qos Configure— LiveAction QoS Configure provides the ability to view, edit, and apply changes to existing policies, as well as create new ones from scratch using one of the many QoS templates provided.

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 its powerful GUI, LiveAction QoS Configure simplifies router configuration 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 an easy-to-understand policy viewer and editor.

• Built-In QoS expertise—Deep QoS expertise is built-into LiveAction based on extensive research of the features, functions, and even idiosyncrasies of Cisco devices.

• QoS templates—Over 25 policy and class templates allow rapid implementation of QoS settings based on Cisco best practices. Users can modify templates or create their own.

• Policies—Router QoS configurations can be saved for future use, or as backups. Applied policies are intelligently correlated with existing settings.

• Visually audit network QoS—Push button policy and performance audit report analyzes QoS configurations for errors and performance issues and details the 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.

• Additional ROI—LiveAction uses the QoS features built into Cisco devices, eliminating the need to invest in more hardware or specialized appliances.

• Reduces errors—LiveAction reduces configuration errors with easy to apply, rules-based QoS policies and templates.

Easy QoS ManagementSee and adjust output policy and set guaranteed bandwidth allocations for specific classes on each interface.

Create and Edit QoS PoliciesCreate and edit QoS policies (including detailed hierarchical policies) based on Cisco best practices. Use LiveAction’s extensive collection of policy tem-plates or create your own policies from scratch using LiveAction’s graphical policy editor.

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.

Large Circles 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• Detailed graphical policy viewer and editor for changing

classification, marking, queueing, policing, shaping, compression and WRED settings

• Expert configuration tool follows Cisco best practices with hundreds of device specific rules and guidelines

• Ability to read existing QoS policies on the router and highlight invalid settings

• Built-in policy wizard with dozens of templates based on 3-, 4-, 5-, 8-, 11 and 12-class models

• Intelligent configuration that is correlated with existing router settings

• Take snapshots of current configuration for future use • Quickly roll back to previous policies at anytime • Create and customize policies using more than 25 QoS

templates based on Cisco best practices • Apply or remove QoS configurations quickly, easily, and

accurately across multiple interfaces • Ability to push policies to multiple devices with a single click • Copy QoS policies across multiple devices • Configuration Audit Trail • Hierarchical policy creation for advanced configurations

including support for Hierarchical Queueing Framework (HQF) and WAN shaping

• Custom NBAR based matches including HTTP URL, MIME, HOST and RTP protocols

• Built in ACL editor • CLI command preview • Built-in rules for QoS settings that also highlight errors • Fair-queue support • QoS configure control for NBAR/NBAR2 • QoS configure SET IP DSCP • QoS configure for Per-Tunnel QoS on DMVPN Tunnels • VLAN Service Policy

Troubleshooting • Push-button policy and performance audit report • Unknown port discovery • View QoS graphs across routers • Topology-based QoS state

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Specifications

Contact LiveActionLiveAction3945 Freedom Circle, Suite 360Santa Clara, CA 95054

Phone and eFAX: +1 888-881-1116Email: sales@liveaction.comWeb site: www.liveaction.com

Devices SupportedCisco 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

1Depending on network traffic pattern. For higher performance use RAID 10 or RAID 0 if redundancy is not required

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