Lync Server 2013 Monitoring/Archiving

There is no longer separate roles for Monitoring or Archiving.

Each front-end server communicates directly with the monitoring and/or archiving database, eliminating the need for a separate monitoring/archiving server.

Follow my previous post to define and install the SQL Instances LyncMonitoriny & LyncArchiving and to associate them to a pool in the Topology builder.

 http://mchahla.blogspot.com/2013/01/installing-microsoft-lync-server-2013.html

 

I will install the Databases on SQL-02.chahla.local

 

- Open Lync Server Management Shell (if you don’t have it ,Open the installer and install Lync Server 2013 Core Components) and Run this command:

Install-CsDatabase -LocalDatabases

- Click Deploy Monitoring Reports.

- Select the Monitoring Database and type the SQL Server Reporting Services instance, then click Next.

- Specify the credentials, then click Next.

- Specify the Read-Only Group, then click Next.

 

 

- Reports will be published.

 

 

- Successfully deployed.

- To Access the LyncMonitoring Reports, from a browser type the URL http://localhost/Reports_LyncMonitoring if you are accessing from the same machine, otherwise if you are accessing from another machine replace localhost by the machine fqdn >> sql-02.chahla.local

- Click on LyncServerReports.

- Click on Reports Home Page.

- A list of available reports will show.

- This is one of the reports.

You will see the records are filled after some time when the users start some sessions.

 

For Archiving, create a policy and enable archiving.

 

- Apply it to some users.

 

- To access LyncArchiving open it in SQL Management Studio.

- (localhost)\LyncArchiving.

- The table dbo.Messages has all the IM messages.

 

- Right click >> Select top 1000 rows.

- In the Results> Body Column, Right click at any row and select copy, then paste it in a notepad.

- Rename the notepad txt file to html file and open it.

- Or you can simply use the command Export-CsArchivingData to export the data that will be in the .eml extension , rename the file to .mht to view it in a browser.

Check this article for more detailed info about exporting archived data  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh328432.aspx

 

Done.