Deployment checklist for monitoring in Lync Server 2013

 

Topic Last Modified: 2012-09-05

Although monitoring is already installed and activated on each Front End server, there are still several steps that you must undertake before you can actually being to collect monitoring data for Microsoft Lync Server 2013. These steps are outlined in the following checklist:

Phase	Steps	Role and group membership	Documentation
Install prerequisite hardware and software	Install a supported version of Microsoft SQL Server on the computer that will act as the backend data store for monitoring.	Domain user who is also a member of the local administrators group.	Supported hardware for Lync Server 2013 in the Supportability guide Server software and infrastructure support in Lync Server 2013 in the Supportability Guide
Create the appropriate internal topology to support monitoring	Use Lync Server 2013 Topology Builder to add monitoring databases to the topology, then published the updated topology.	To define a topology, a user who is a member of the local users group. To publish the topology, a user who is a member if the domain administrators group and the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group.	Associating a monitoring store with a Front End pool in Lync Server 2013 in the Deployment guide
Enable the appropriate monitoring settings	Enable call detail recording (CDR) and/or Quality of Experience (QoE) monitoring at the global and/or the site scopes.	A user who is a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group or who has been assigned an RBAC role that provides access to the CsCdrConfiguration and CsQoEConfiguration cmdlets.	Configuring call detail recording and Quality of Experience settings in Lync Server 2013 in the Operations guide