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Huawei eSight vs LiveAction LiveNX comparison

Huawei and BlueCat are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Huawei is ranked #35 with an average rating of 9.0, while BlueCat is ranked #43 with an average rating of 8.3. Huawei holds a 0.9% mindshare in IM, compared to BlueCat’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 72% of Huawei users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 81% of BlueCat users who would recommend it.
Huawei eSight
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72% willing to recommend
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81% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

LiveAction LiveNX and Huawei eSight are competing network management solutions. LiveAction LiveNX appears to have the upper hand in robust integration, whereas Huawei eSight is preferable for large-scale networks due to its comprehensive feature set.

Features: LiveAction LiveNX provides deep network visualization, performance monitoring, and flow analysis. Its strengths include enhanced troubleshooting, diagnostics capabilities, and efficient network management. Huawei eSight offers multi-vendor device management, extensive automation features, and comprehensive network monitoring, which are beneficial for managing large and complex network environments.

Room for Improvement: LiveAction LiveNX could improve its multi-vendor support, expand automation capabilities, and optimize its performance for larger network environments. Huawei eSight can work on simplifying its deployment process, refining user interface navigation, and enhancing customer support accessibility for international users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: LiveAction LiveNX is noted for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer service, making it accessible for teams with varying expertise. Huawei eSight, while proficient in handling complex deployments, requires more configuration time due to its expansive features, indicating a trade-off between simplicity with LiveNX and complexity with eSight.

Pricing and ROI: LiveAction LiveNX involves higher initial investment but provides a faster ROI with efficient troubleshooting features. Huawei eSight may be more cost-effective for larger networks due to its scalability, yet taking longer to realize ROI. LiveNX's pricing reflects its rapid results, while eSight's value lies in managing extensive infrastructures efficiently.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Huawei eSight
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
35th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Network Management Applications (9th)
LiveAction LiveNX
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
43rd
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (38th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Huawei eSight is 0.9%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of LiveAction LiveNX is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Huawei eSight0.9%
LiveAction LiveNX0.6%
Other98.5%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Gary Strydom - PeerSpot reviewer
Used to monitor devices and provides the hardware alarms feature
Huawei eSight has helped me overcome many monitoring aspects of the hardware. From a single view, I can monitor all the hardware. Instead of logging on to each piece of hardware and monitoring it individually, I can monitor them from one single point. I would recommend the solution to other users because it provides a single point of view of the hardware. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
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Ashwani Bansal - PeerSpot reviewer
Network management and diagnostics improved through effective monitoring and reporting capabilities
The solution is handy. I have not used that particular feature. Maintenance is required for the system. If you want to use something on the endpoints or end-user devices, then using LiveAction LiveNX in place of other tools would be quite beneficial. The solution impacts operational costs and resources. On a scale of 1-10, I rate LiveAction LiveNX a nine.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We use Huawei eSight to monitor devices like Wi-Fi controllers, LAN switches, and routers."
"One of the most beneficial features of Huawei eSight is its simplicity and ease of use."
"Huawei eSight provides businesses with monitoring capabilities of network devices across your network."
"I like the real-time location monitor or RTLS feature. It is similar to the monitoring feature in Cisco Prime."
"The most important features are alarm management and the visualization of the health of our network devices."
"eSight allows me to monitor and solve any problem in the backbone and any switch in real-time."
"The solution's most valuable dashboard features include monitoring storage, resource availability, and hardware alarms."
"I like that it supports all our Huawei devices. Unlike other network monitoring tools that monitor Huawei devices, it provides more details when it comes to monitoring or management. We can get complete details about the devices, and management is also simple."
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"The intention and the idea of the filter is great."
"Its analytical capability is really good."
"We provide a tool for our customers to manage their reports. It's an extremely highly featured platform capable of producing a lot of data. We spent quite a long time working with customers and LiveAction to create template reports, and they're very good and configurable. You get a lot of data if you don't configure them."
"All in all, LiveAction LiveNX has become an indispensable tool for maintaining and improving our network's reliability and performance, ultimately supporting our organization's goal of providing timely and dependable delivery services."
"On a scale of 1-10, I rate LiveAction LiveNX a nine."
"We don't have any complaints about the software. According to my team, it's a very good tool that's very intuitive."
"The product has a very good graphical interface."
"One of the valuable features is the ability to create CLI scripts on the fly to fix any issues. We were using it for QoS modeling to ensure that we were properly modeling QoS, and it basically said here is what you need to fix to get this QoS done, whether it is ACL or something else. It would either push or recommend. If you have the right credentials, you could also push. It is very good if you are a Cisco shop. It gives you reporting, latency, and bandwidth utilization for your applications, so you can do good capacity management planning. There are a lot of pieces that LiveNX can give you. It is a total NPM solution for SD-WAN."
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Cons

"It is not a very flexible product."
"eSight has many features and options, but sometimes, we feel that it should be more advanced, like Cisco. It would be good if they can enable some automation part in eSight. Most of our customers want automation in their network. They don't want a dependency on everything. That's why the automation part must be improved in Huawei. It will be beneficial for customers. Cisco has different products, and there are multiple products for monitoring, automation, etc. In the software-defined network, Cisco has ACI, and VMware has NSX. Such options must be there in Huawei to move to a software-defined network. Unlike Cisco, in the case of eSight, there is only one product. I am not aware of any other product. It would be good to enhance it with at least some automation options so that we can use it effectively in the campus network or big data center environment. When I implemented this Huawei solution, I faced some limitations in particular areas like wireless scanning. This is another part that they can improve. Wireless reporting option is not as effective as other monitoring solutions. For a particular use case, if a customer is asking for some reports, sometimes they are not 100% satisfactory. The reporting structure must be improved."
"The price could be less costly."
"The variety of license types should be made simpler as, at present, it is complex."
"Something that could be improved is the lack of integration with Cisco switches. In the next release, I would like to see better reporting."
"It will be better if they can make the simple network topology part more presentable. It would also be better if they had API integration and integration with third-party devices."
"Huawei eSight should work on the option to have the email notification working on Office 365 Exchange."
"The solution and the operating system come separately. It would be easier if we did not have to deploy anything. A bundle feature would be better."
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"The product is weak in multi-tenancy. We have to install multiple instances of LiveAction, whereas we would like to build it once for our customers."
"The only downside to this software is the price."
"Improved documentation and more responsive customer support can help in addressing issues faster."
"This is a horrible solution and I think everything needs to be improved."
"The customer service and technical support of LiveAction LiveNX are rated at 4 out of 10."
"Maintenance is required for the system."
"Sometimes the solution does not register devices properly and that is a bug."
"The tool crashes sometimes when we try to pull reports simultaneously."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate this solution a nine out of ten for pricing. The pricing depends on which features you use and can become expensive."
"The price is very expensive."
"Its pricing is better than any other Huawei product. Some products are cheaper in Huawei, and some products are cheaper in Cisco. Cisco has more benefits and options than Huawei if you consider different network environments."
"Pricing depends on the competition. If your competitor is like Cisco, then Huawei is much more competitive when it comes to pricing."
"The solution’s pricing is reasonable."
"The pricing for Huawei eSight is reasonable, especially with the base license and incremental licenses for additional devices. However, the variety of license types can be a bit complex. We used to sell eSight but switched to another solution, so we're not actively trading it anymore."
"We use the free version."
"It's very expensive."
"The solution is fairly expensive compared to other products."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise1
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Huawei eSight?
Huawei eSight should work on the option to have the email notification working on Office 365 Exchange.
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What is your primary use case for Huawei eSight?
We use the solution to monitor the hardware environment of our data center. We mainly use Huawei eSight to monitor the devices. It assists in monitoring our devices in terms of utilization and moni...
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What advice do you have for others considering Huawei eSight?
Huawei eSight has helped me overcome many monitoring aspects of the hardware. From a single view, I can monitor all the hardware. Instead of logging on to each piece of hardware and monitoring it i...
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What needs improvement with LiveAction LiveNX?
The solution could be enhanced by implementing custom patterns for each customer.
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What is your primary use case for LiveAction LiveNX?
The customers use LiveAction LiveNX for network monitoring and management purposes.
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What advice do you have for others considering LiveAction LiveNX?
I work as an integrator with LiveAction LiveNX. Most customers prefer deploying it on premises rather than in the cloud. The advanced diagnostics capabilities, including flow-based surveillance and...
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LiveNX
 

Overview

Huawei's eSight is a unified software suite for planning, operating, and maintaining complex enterprise ICT infrastructure from global, converged networks and data centers to multimedia and video communications that includes the facilities necessary for delivering performance and IT services. eSight provides a platform that supports infrastructure and devices from third-party providers, to develop custom management applications and improves O&M efficiency.

Huawei

LiveAction develops IT visibility solutions designed to simplify network management. Initially developed to aid the US Department of Defense in the operation of its networks, LiveNX (Network Experience) features an innovative visual display, real-time big data analytics and deep control of routers and switches for unparalleled network administration. LiveNX accelerates troubleshooting with its QoS control, application-aware, and WAN functionality developed through engineering partnerships with Cisco Systems.

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Sample Customers

Marina Bay, CITIC Pacific Mining
Tampa Electric, Digital First Media, Allscripts, Boxwood Technology
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