2. Objective
Understand how you can actively monitor Lync Server 2013
• Monitoring Scenarios
• Let’s take a look
• Watcher Nodes
• How to deploy for success
3. Ståle Hansen
Technical Evangelist @ Atea
V-TSP @ Microsoft
Blog @ msunified.net
Company blog @ LyncAtea.no
Co-Author Lync Master Class @ LyncLab.no
Contributor @ TheUCArchitects PodCast
7. Dependency health monitoring
• External dependencies
• Internet Information Services (IIS) availability
• CPU and memory usage of Lync Servers and
processes
• Disk metrics
8. Call reliability alerts (CDR)
• Directly from the Monitoring database
• Tells you
• Why a call terminated
• Why a user failed to connect a call
• Gives you the Diagnostics Header
9. Media quality alerts (QoE)
• Directly from the monitoring database
• Quality of Experience
• Based on key metrics
• Jitter
• Packet Loss
• Latency
13. More control in Lync 2013
• Run from various geographic locations
• We got a cmdlet to choose scenarios
• New-CsWatcherNodeConfiguration
• Three types of scenarios
• Default
• Non-Default
• Extended
17. Test User Accounts
• Do not need to represent actual people
• Must be valid Active Directory accounts
• Must be enabled for Lync Server 2013
• Have valid SIP addresses
• Should be enabled for Enterprise Voice
19. How to deploy for success?
• Do one thing at a time
• Implement Management Pack (MP) for Lync
• Tune it till it’s green
• Create a MP for overrides and customization
• Tune your synthetic transactions
20. Key Takeaways
• Monitoring Scenarios – Lync health at a glance
• Watcher Nodes – Runs actual tests periodically
• How to deploy for success? - Do one thing at a
time
Did anyone attend last years lync troubleshooting session here on NIC Then you may remember that there where a lot of tools and things to check for
as services not running, certificates expiring high failure rates, high message latency, or connectivity issues
Lync Server can fail for a variety of external reasons. The Management Pack now monitors and collects data for critical external dependencies that can indicate severe issues
These queries produce alerts that indicate when a high number of users experience connectivity issues for peer-to-peer calls or basic conferencing functionality What is the diagnostics header you may say Shows a diagnostic header, it tells you why the call failed No response No media connectivity Possible source of fault, returncode
pinpoint scenarios where users are most likely to experience compromised media quality
run from various geographic locations, to test and help ensure high availability of scenarios such as sign in, presence, IM, and conferencing for users.
synthetic transactions can use a large amount of computer memory and processor time. Because of this, we recommend that you use a dedicated computer as a watcher node. For example, you should not configure a Lync Server Front End Server to act as a watcher node Can not be collocated with a 2010 watcher node because of the 2013 binaries