Hawkeye: Active Network Monitoring

As an active monitoring platform, Hawkeye is an ideal tool to continuously manage performance and connectivity across your network. Hawkeye makes it simple for you to monitor remote sites, data centers, cloud services and more — all from a single tool.

Whether you're measuring remote user experience over voice applications, branch office users on Wi-Fi, or general connectivity to your SaaS applications, it's easy to monitor, manage, and maintain peak performance. With Hawkeye, you can do all this and more:

• choose from a robust library of pre-defined QoS tests
• monitor voice, video, and unified communications tools with turnkey integrations
• cut through clutter with clear pass / fail metrics
• see all your performance data in a single interface
• set custom alarm thresholds based on individual quality standards

Successful SD-WAN migrations depend on the ability to monitor application performance closely and troubleshoot issues — both before and after you deploy. That’s why so many organizations count on Hawkeye to streamline SD-WAN deployment, turn up, and maintenance.

With Hawkeye, you get all the tools you need to ensure a successful migration — pre- and post-deployment — including the following:

• architecture and design verification
• service level agreement (SLA) and quality-of-experience (QoE) analysis
• active core-to-edge performance monitoring
• 24/7 link and circuit verification
  
• proactive issue identification and troubleshooting

Corporations have been evolving toward a more distributed workforce for more than a decade, but the widespread shift to remote work is stressing day-to-day IT operations. Network operations teams need to identify and address performance issues swiftly, but an increasingly remote workforce adds complexity and makes troubleshooting harder.

You need to focus on business, not whether the next conference call is going to work. That's why network operations teams trust Hawkeye to help them accomplish the following:

• verify network readiness proactively
• validate QoE, troubleshoot bottlenecks, and fix outages fast
• identify and resolve latency problems before they impact end users (remote and on-premises)
• pinpoint where to increase bandwidth or adjust QoS
• detect whether performance issues stem from your network, your carrier, your applications, or your users’ connections
  

Reducing latency and maintaining peak performance are critical concerns for edge computing. When employees, consumers, and branch locations all depend on your network's edge, you need a holistic view of QoS that goes well beyond your data center.

You need a monitoring strategy. Keysight can help. Hawkeye offers a diverse range of edge-optimized monitoring endpoints so you can capture actionable intelligence from every corner of your network:

• Vision E1S: Hawkeye-enabled network packet broker
• IxProbe: inline monitoring probe combining real-time monitoring, SLA verification, and synthetic QoS testing
• Virtual endpoints: compatible with a range of virtual platforms and cloud applications

For network service providers, the clients who count on them, and large enterprises that operate SD-WANs, SLAs are the pulse of business. As network speeds rise, managing SLAs is critical for ensuring that all parties deliver their expected speeds or get what they paid for.

However, last-mile blind spots can make this troublesome — especially for service providers that sub-contract last-mile connectivity. Without visibility into branch locations and remote sites, troubleshooting issues and maintaining QoS are significantly harder.

IxProbe, an inline monitoring probe, solves this exact problem. A Hawkeye endpoint combining real-time monitoring, SLA verification, and synthetic QoS testing, IxProbe puts you in control of your network's edge with fewer truck rolls, faster troubleshooting, and effortless deployment at scale.