Link-Live™
Platform for Team Collaboration, Reporting, and Analytics
Link-Live offers powerful, interactive discovery and WiFi dashboards with integrated workflows that include flexible drilldowns for rapid problem resolution and efficient investigations. With unified reporting, advanced topology mapping, analysis, and data management Link-Live ensures teams can efficiently collaborate and share your networks status with all key stakeholders.
This network analysis tool also includes WiFi and Bluetooth/BLE site survey heat mapping capabilities. The AirMapper™ Site Survey app for the AirCheck® G3, EtherScope® nXG, and CyberScope® allows you to quickly and easily gather location-based Wi-Fi and Bluetooth/BLE measurements, and then create visual heat maps of key performance metrics in the Link-Live network analysis tool.
Key Features
- Seamless Collaboration: Link-Live dashboards, workflows, and network analysis tools facilitate smooth collaboration between unlimited onsite team members and remote experts or external clients, without any licensing costs.
- Heatmap Generation: Generate WiFi and Bluetooth/BLE heatmaps with the use of the AirMapper™ Site Survey App on EtherScope® nXG, AirCheck™ G3, CyberScope® CE, and CyberScope Air.
- Problem Identification: As a network analyzing tool, Link-Live functions as a Wi-Fi analysis tool, identifying common Wi-Fi network issues swiftly with the use of the InSites™ intelligence.
- Network Mapping: Conduct a network topology analysis of your wired and WiFi networks using discovery data from devices such as AirCheck G3, EtherScope nXG, CyberScope CE, CyberScope Air, LinkRunner AT 4000, or LinkRunner 10G. The feature allows for export to Visio.
- Advanced Asset Management: The platform enables the linking of serial numbers of installed equipment or cable/wall jack labels to specific tests, optimizing asset management.
- Simplified Reporting: Link-Live makes it easier to generate reports for network deployment documentation and minimizes results management overhead for multiple testers and users.
*Active AllyCare Premium Support is required for discovery and mapping functionality.
How to use a network analysis tool?
Test it yourself and see how easy it is to use the Link-Live network analysis tool. Click on the orange dots to explore.
Result Dashboard
Screen: This is the Link-Live Results dashboard, where all your test results are uploaded. On the left, results are displayed with the unit’s name, data, and time of test, along with the test type and any folders or labels applied to the result. Users can navigate and access other functions of Link-Live using the left panel.
Benefit: This allows you to easily consolidate all test results, reporting, and data management in a secure cloud portal from all your NetAlly Handheld Network Testers. Link-Live improves staff efficiency, enabling you to easily manage network changes, document your networks, and collaborate with site personnel and remote experts or with external clients.
Manage Floor Plan
Screen: Create site survey projects in Link-Live and push pre-configured floor plans to testers on the field. You can upload floor plans, crop images, calibrate, and provide signal propagation information.
Benefits: Simplifies the process or collaborating with remote surveyors and removes the need for special training. Surveyors in the field just need to tap on the screen and collect data points.
Units
Screen: View information on your currently claimed testers’, change the unit name and description, add labels, and modify email addresses that receive test results.
Benefits: Keep track of different testers, assign email addresses to get live updates of testing performed from certain units, auto-label results from a unit, change the name of each unit to best track who has been performing tests, and optimize collaboration efforts.
Claim a Unit
Screen: Here you can claim units to be tracked by your Link-Live Organization.
Benefits: Add a unit to your organization to collect and organize test results from multiple testers, assign email addresses to get live updates of testing from certain units, change the name of each tester to best track who has been performing tests, and optimize collaboration efforts.
Analysis
Screen: On this page, various file types uploaded from NetAlly testers can be analyzed, including discovery, path analysis, and WiFi sessions.
Benefits: Centralized experts can analyze complex network data collected from testers used by technicians in the field; this includes generating network topology diagrams, seeing what devices have changed (added or missing) between two discovery files, path analysis results, and in-depth WiFi network analytics.
Analysis – Network Topology
Screen: Instantly map your wired and WiFi networks with discovery data from AirCheck G3, EtherScope nXG, or LinkRunner 10G (with AllyCare). Discovery Difference automatically shows devices that are new since the last Discovery, and devices that have gone missing.
Benefits: Having an up-to-the-minute accurate network diagram speeds troubleshooting and network changes, simplifies discovery of unauthorized devices and keeps network documentation up-to-date.
AirMapper™ Site Survey
Screen: Quickly create powerful visualizations from location-based site data recorded with the AirMapper Site Survey app on EtherScope nXG or AirCheck G3. Ideal for new deployments, change validation and performance verification. Instantly modify views with custom filters and thresholds.
Benefits: The various visualizations provide fast insight into various factors of WiFi network coverage and performance. Once configured the way you like, the view can instantly be saved as a template for later recall (without having to re-configure the view) or to add to a report (icon at lower right), making network documentation fast and easy.
Setting Threshold Levels
Screen: By adjusting the dBm value using the slider or by entering a value in the box below, set the threshold level for the visualization shown. Areas on the survey that do not meet the threshold value will turn gray. Clicking the “Values” option in the control box will show the relevant measurement for each survey point.
Benefits: Validating your network meets minimum requirements ensures coverage and performance for all users. By varying the threshold value, you can easily see which areas of the site would be impacted first by a degradation of service. The simplicity of threshold settings in AirMapper provides quick visibility into potential problem areas.
Heatmap Visualization Options
Screen: Selecting the Options dropdown shows the visualizations available. By default, every user has access to the Signal (coverage) heatmap. Additional visualizations are AllyCare-enabled (NetAlly’s extended customer support subscription program). These include Noise, SNR, Co-Channel and Adjacent Channel Interference, AP Coverage, Data Rates, Beacon Overhead, and Max Tx/Rx MCS.
Additional customization of the view includes whether to show the survey path, show the key value for each sample point, show AP location, and show comments. (Comments can be used by the surveyor to communicate key information about the site or survey to the survey analyst, or otherwise document critical information about the survey.)
Benefits: The various visualizations provide fast insight into various factors of WiFi network coverage and performance. Once configured the way you like, the view can instantly be saved as a template for later recall (without having to re-configure the view) or to add to a report (icon at lower right), making network documentation fast and easy.
AirMapper InSites™ Intelligence
Screen: InSites simplifies the process of WiFi network validation and troubleshooting by automatically comparing the AirMapper Site Survey data collected on-site to a set of pre-defined (user customizable) thresholds, providing a visual Pass or Fail indication on the heatmap.
Benefits: There is no need to be an expert to analyze WiFi heatmaps and identify wireless network problems anymore. The InSites intelligence in Link-Live now makes it easy for anyone to quickly identify WiFi network problems.
Uploaded Files
Screen: On this page, you can view reports you have created using the Result Dashboard, AirMapper app, Analysis app, etc. From here you can also access screenshots, photos, log files, and packet captures that have been uploaded to Link-Live.
Benefit: Instantly generate and view graphical summaries from test results to provide proof of network connectivity, installation, and validation.
Capabilities
- Dashboards & Workflow
- AutoTest Results & Data Management
- AirMapper™ Site Surveying & InSites™ Intelligence
- Device Management
- AllyCare-Enabled Features
- Cloud Security & Private Edition
Link-Live offers powerful, interactive discovery and WiFi dashboards with integrated workflows that include flexible drilldowns for rapid problem resolution and efficient investigations.
Discovery Dashboards
- High-level console with key indicator graphs including device type and status, VLAN, security types, and 802.11 types.
- Interactive click-to-filter graphical widgets.
- One-click switching between graphical, tabular, and topology views with persistent filtering for quick drill-down analysis.
WiFi Dashboards
- Console with key indicator graphs such as Wi-Fi device counts, SSID counts, channel usage, client manufacturer prefix, and BSSIDs authorization class.
- Interactive click-to-filter graphical widgets.
- Wi-Fi Channel, AP, SSID, BSSID, Client, and Probing Clients graphical overviews.
- Bluetooth device counts, manufacturer, beacon type, and advertisement flags.
- Instant lateral switching between graph and table view with persistence of applied filters.
Summary Graphical
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AutoTest
Results can be set to automatically upload to Link-Live, ensuring documentation of troubleshooting results. Additional comments and images of the on-site environment can be added to the test results to facilitate better documentation and shorten root cause analysis during troubleshooting escalation.
Data Management
Link-Live acts as a powerful aggregator of test, discovery, analysis, and topology data from your NetAlly instruments.
- Automatically generate pre-made or custom reports into PDFs or CSV files to share with your team or clients.
- Available API enables seamless data integration between Link-Live and trouble-ticket or network management systems (NMS) to track performance trends or issues.
- Upload and store additional files, such as: documents, photos, screenshots, packet captures, and more.
- Automated problem notification via email can be enabled per instrument, by severity.
Link-Live provides a simple, fast, and easy way for anyone to generate and share WiFi or Bluetooth/BLE site surveys from site data gathered by EtherScope nXG, AirCheck G3, CyberScope, or CyberScope Air. Through powerful visualizations of the recorded data, centralized engineers can analyze test results from far-flung remote sites without travel.
Features of AirMapper™ Site Surveying
- Create visual heatmaps of key WiFi performance metrics including Signal Coverage, Noise, SNR, Co-Channel and Adjacent Channel Interference (CCI,ACI), AP Coverage, Data Rates, TX/RX MCS, Beacon Overhead, Active Signal Strength, and Active Tx Rate.
- Simplify the process of validating new installations or locating rogue devices by automatically triangulating the position of Access Points on a floor plan.
- Bluetooth and BLE location-based analysis through the use of heat maps.
- Project management feature automatically pushes pre-configured floor plans to tester units.
- Supports both passive and active WiFi site surveys to gather critical site metrics and validate client experience and roaming on a single walkthrough.
- Collaborate – easily visualize and share survey data through Link-Live; no additional licensing cost enables free sharing and collaboration with remote teams or clients.
- Pass WiFi survey data to AirMagnet Survey PRO for more advanced analysis, predictive planning, and reporting.
InSites Intelligence
InSites simplifies the process of WiFi network validation and troubleshooting by automatically comparing the AirMapper Site Survey or WiFi Discovery data collected on-site to a set of pre-defined (user customizable) thresholds, providing a visual Pass or Fail. With InSites, there is no need to be an expert to analyze WiFi heatmaps and identify wireless network problems. InSites intelligence in Link-Live makes it easy for anyone to quickly identify WiFi network problems.
Link-Live allows you to view information on your currently claimed testers’, change the unit’s name and description, add labels, and modify email addresses that receive test results. Allowing you to keep track of different testers, assign email addresses to get live updates of testing performed from certain units, auto-label results from a unit, change the name of each unit to best track who has been performing tests, and optimize collaboration efforts.
- Configure and push profiles to units in the field to ensure consistent test results.
- Claim units into different organizations to track device usage and manage role permissions.
- Remotely update software for all your units using Link-Live.
- Simplifies management of AirMapper projects by automatically pushing pre-configured floor plans to units in the field.
Essential functions are available to all users for results storage, management, and reporting.
Additional AllyCare-enabled features are only available to customers with AllyCare Product support on their unit, such as advanced heat map visualizations, advanced topology mapping, and web remote control. For information about AllyCare, click here.
Cloud Security
Relax knowing your data is safe with us. All data transmitted between customers and NetAlly are encrypted using 256-bit AES. Browser connections are also encrypted, via SSL3, ensuring a secure connection between the customers and Link-Live. All customer data is stored in the Amazon AWS secure, highly available, multi-zoned cloud infrastructure, and is replicated to prevent data loss. With AWS’s ISO 27001 certification and validation as a Level 1 service provider under the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), users can rest assured their data is stored safely. In addition, user credentials are not stored, and are processed by a third-party service for authentication and authorization.
- All authentication calls occur via 256-bit AES extended validation SSL encryption.
- High-entropy password security using SHA-512 and HMAC hashing algorithms.
- Third-party services are used to conduct periodic vulnerability scans of Link-Live.
Private Edition
Link-Live is available as a free cloud service, but for organizations desiring a private installation or where public services are not allowed, Link-Live Private edition is a containerized, licensed subscription version for on-premises or private cloud deployment.
Documents
Flyers
Title/Description | Download |
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Link-Live Product Flyer | Download |
AllyWare Common Technology Guide | Download |
Link-Live Security Overview | Download |
Manuals
Title/Description | Download |
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Link-Live Private Quick Guide | Download |
Link-Live Private Device Claiming Process | Download |
Software
Title/Description | Download |
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Link-Live Result API Guide | Download |
Models - Link-Live™ Private
Model | Description |
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LL-PRVT-G | Link-Live Private Edition, software download includes AllyCare Premium Support. Requires annual subscription LL-PRVT-SUB. (Note: both items are required for complete installation and use.) |
LL-PRVT-SUB | Link-Live Private Edition, yearly subscription includes AllyCare Premium Support. (Note: both items are required for complete installation and use.) |
Models Supported by Link-Live™
Models | Description | Link-Live™ Cloud | Link-Live™ Private |
LSPRINT-300 | LinkSprinter® Pocket Network Tester | • | n/a |
LRAT-3000 | LinkRunner® AT 3000 Network & Connectivity Tester | • | • |
LRAT-4000 | LinkRunner® AT 4000 Smart Network & Cable Tester | • | • |
LR10G-200 | LinkRunner® 10G Advanced Ethernet Tester | • | • |
AIRCHECK-G3-PRO | AirCheck® G3 Pro Wireless Analyzer | • | • |
EXG-300 | EtherScope® nXG Portable Network Expert | • | • |
CYBERSCOPE-AIR | CyberScope® Air WiFi Vulnerability Scanner & Tester | • | • |
CYBERSCOPE-XRF | CyberScope Ethernet Vulnerability Scanner & Tester | • | • |
CYBERSCOPE-CE | CyberScope Edge Network Vulnerability Scanner & Tester | • | • |
System Requirements - Link-Live™ Cloud and Private
Browser
Latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Internet Explorer. For best experience, use Chrome.
Server Requirements - Live-Live™ Private
Hardware | Minimum Requirements | Recommended |
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Disk Space |
150GB | 300GB |
Memory |
12G | 24GB |
Processor |
4 Cores @ 1.4GHz | 8 Cores @ 2.0GHz or faster |
Software | Technology | Minimum Version | Linux | Ubuntu | 20.04 | Docker | Client/Server | 20.10.2 | Docker | Compose | 1.25.0 |