Hawkeye Software Suite

Prevent Downtime With Active Monitoring

Don't wait for performance problems to cause costly downtime. With active network monitoring, you'll be the first to know when something goes wrong. Instead of waiting on users to discover and report issues, Hawkeye enables you to do the following:

• measure user experience across your network and applications in real-time
• conduct distributed tests from on-premises or off-premises infrastructure
• verify fixes in real-time with pass / fail metrics
• find network and application issues faster with automated interval testing
• track network trends proactively based on time-of-day and day-of-week of services

Validate Deployments Before and After Launch

Unlike active monitoring tools that rely on simple ping tests, Hawkeye uses realistic traffic simulations to accurately measure performance. Built on the same technology that underpins IxChariot — Keysight's pre-deployment performance testing platform — Hawkeye is an ideal tool for validating complex network deployments such as SD-WAN, before and after you go live.

Monitor Your Network From Core to Edge

Unlike purely web-based active/synthetic monitoring tools, Hawkeye enables you to monitor the entirety of your network from a single tool. With a suite of physical, virtual, and cloud-based endpoints, you can track performance from your data center to your network's edge, including (but not limited to) the following areas:

• customer premises
• remote sites and head offices
• network aggregation points (PEs)
• core network, MPLS routers
• data centers
• cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, virtual machines, and servers)

Save Precious Time With Path Discovery

Troubleshooting service interruptions is frustrating and time-consuming. Is the outage on your network, or is the problem coming from your service provider? Could it be an issue with one of your software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications? While you struggle to find the culprit, you lose valuable time and prolong costly outages. That's why Hawkeye shows you every step traffic takes on (and off) your network — enabling you to troubleshoot faster by quickly pinpointing faulty nodes.

See All Your Performance Data in One Place

No one likes flipping between multiple dashboards and tools. That's why Hawkeye consolidates all your network performance data into a customizable, web-based interface. Here is a small sample of what our dashboard includes:

• real-time synthetic and inline traffic reporting
• automated alerts to help resolve issues faster
• product views to identify pain points quickly
• detailed drill downs by location, call/transaction, and specific metrics
• API integrations with leading network management systems
  

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
  

Edge-Computing Endpoints

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.

For network service providers, the clients who count on them, and large enterprises that operate SD-WANs, SLAs are the pulse of the 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.