IBM SevOne vs. LiveAction

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM SevOne
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
IBM SevOne’s app-centric, hybrid network observability empowers NetOps teams with ML-driven insights, enabling proactive issue prevention and resolution. With a single source of truth for network performance, it delivers visibility to optimize operations and support agility in complex, multi-cloud environments.N/A
LiveAction
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
LiveAction’s LiveNX is a network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It supports packet-level, network-wide visibility and proactive alerts. It can be deployed on-premise, virtually, or in the cloud.N/A
Pricing
IBM SevOneLiveAction
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM SevOneLiveAction
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsIBM® SevOne® uses Managed Device (MD) and Managed Client Device (MCD) as pricing metrics. These can be mapped to managed devices for physical, virtualized and containerized functions in the managed environment.
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IBM SevOneLiveAction
Features
IBM SevOneLiveAction
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
IBM SevOne
7.6
16 Ratings
4% below category average
LiveAction
6.9
2 Ratings
14% below category average
Automated network device discovery8.016 Ratings7.22 Ratings
Network monitoring7.416 Ratings7.22 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation7.515 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Alerts7.115 Ratings6.32 Ratings
Network capacity planning7.615 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Packet capture analysis7.610 Ratings7.22 Ratings
Network mapping7.616 Ratings6.32 Ratings
Customizable reports7.716 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring7.413 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring8.37 Ratings6.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM SevOneLiveAction
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
(16 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM SevOneLiveAction
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
IBM SevOne ensures deep performance and in depth monitoring and allows customization according to specific organisation or business needs. Availability of real-time alerts and unlimited customization. The software integrates freely with many third party applications and has reliable analytics and reporting systems. Ability of the software in automating routine network monitoring tasks which reduces operational costs. Software pricing is a major challenge towards smooth implementation of the software. It is expensive and not affordable to small businesses and organisations.
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BlueCat
From a packet tracing standpoint, it was easy to setup and analyze an issue we were having with eigrp errors between 2 data centers. Took a few minutes to stand up on both sides and compare the traffic to determine hellos weren't being sent. On the other spectrum, had it had the analytics of such products as Extrahop, it could have recognized and alerted us of an internal DNS attack we had.
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Pros
IBM
  • To see trends in network usage, identify upgrade switches, increase bandwidth and cabling
  • Provide dashboards to operations, logistics for both warehouse and production managers
  • Can integrate into incident systems to auto create tickets when issues happen
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BlueCat
  • Network QOS Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
  • Network L2/L3 Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
  • Network Security Assessment, and recommendations, and point-and-click remediation
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Cons
IBM
  • Documentation for the embedded help pages in NMS and more. In my opinion, these do not provide anything of any depth or maybe anything helpful at all. If anything it just seems to be a guide of what actually exists on the page. It is nicely searchable documentation though.
  • It is very surprising and disappointing for us to learn that it isn't until the latest version of IBM SevOne that bulk editing was introduced. I think this is such a basic and foundational feature that should have been a part of the original rollout. My team is still trying to configure the REST API.
  • It was disappointing for the webinar to start with a speaker who had a thick accent and simply read from slides. To me, it felt hopeless until the second speaker, who was engaging and easy to understand. It's as if this fact wasn't considered. I'm sure the first speaker lost a lot of viewers who didn't stick around to discover the 2nd speaker.
  • I asked three different questions during the webinar and none were answered.
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BlueCat
  • I use it primarily as a monitoring tool from a security standpoint, so one complaint is that the filter creation process takes a little time to learn.
  • In the digital days of printing less, I do still need to print network diagrams for compliance documentation and some of the larger network diagrams documents do not print easily.
  • I wish the network connection lines were easier to see. They are typically very light and you have to drill down to see them more clearly.
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Support Rating
IBM
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BlueCat
Can't really rate this, we never had to call support. The product wasn't complicated to setup and learn. We have a high level of network knowledge so the product was self-explanatory.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
IBM SevOne was selected instead of Datadog because it is perfect for large insurance networks and also connects trouble-free between the on-premise and cloud environments. Its alerts are in real-time, it offers comprehensive dashboards and it allows to gain a better grip on the network issues, thus helping to keep the downtime small and the operations well managed thanks to the good communication.
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BlueCat
There is not any other product that does exactly what LiveAction does. Some come about halfway close, like scrutinizer by Plixer. However, there is a gap with that product as it doesn't give proper quality of service recommendations, or to update l2/l3 configs to head off problems. Plixer's scrutinizer product costs about the same. It was a no-brainer to pick LiveAction.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Being able to create reports with variables, so end users can check on a multitude of devices easily.
  • Proactive alarming on issues that will cause outages.
  • Automatic provisioning of Virtual Machines into IBM SevOne through the VMWare plugin
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BlueCat
  • Real time insight to network issues whether security related or not.
  • Great reporting features for executives.
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ScreenShots

IBM SevOne Screenshots

Screenshot of Hybrid cloud network monitoring. This view helps achieve application-centric observability in hybrid cloud environments for maintaining optimal performance across infrastructure.Screenshot of MSP network monitoring. This provides comprehensive network monitoring and observability that empower MSPs to support enterprise clients on their hybrid multicloud journeys.Screenshot of SD-WAN monitoring. This helps mitigate the transitional risk of moving from traditional WANs to fast and dynamic SD-WAN links.Screenshot of SDN monitoring. This helps maximize the performance and value of Cisco ACI infrastructure with built-in support for monitoring Cisco ACI-based software-defined networks (SDNs).Screenshot of Enterprise wifi monitoring. This creates visibility across wifi infrastructures to assure consistent high-quality services with modern wifi monitoring and management capabilities.Screenshot of A view of the default machine learning analytics and visualizations that aid in troubleshooting, anomaly detection, and forecasting. This allows for proactive identification and troubleshooting of issues before they impact end-users.