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Design Considerations
Planning Ease of Management
Remote Management
You might have centralized solutions for monitoring and managing network
assets such as the HP SBM. You can monitor the SBM remotely using one or
more of these supported remote monitoring tools:
■ OpenView Agent
■ SNMP server
■ Syslog server
■ Microsoft Operations Monitor Agent
You should refer to the documentation for your tool for instructions on using
it to manage devices such as the SBM.
You can also monitor and manage the SBM using the Microsoft Lync Server
tools, which include:
■ Lync Server Control Panel—A graphical user interface (GUI) in which
various Lync administrators can complete tasks such as:
• Monitor Lync Servers and PSTN gateways
• Manage users
• Create voice policies, routing rules, and normalization rules
■ Lync Server Topology Builder—This is a GUI in which Lync administrators
define sites and their resources, including the survivable branch sites. The
SBM uses the published topology to determine which services it provides,
where to contact other servers for other services, and so forth.
■ Lync Server Management Shell—This shell provides many cmdlets to
manage the Lync solution.
Lync Server 2010 features role-based access control (RBAC), so the engineers
must have the correct group assignment to complete various tasks.You should
refer to Microsoft documentation for guidelines on RBAC as well as for
instructions on using the tools.
Ensuring Support for Remote Management. You do not need to com-
plete any extra configuration on the SBM to enable it to work with the
supported monitoring solutions. However, if your solution relies on SNMP, the
SNMP server requires the proper MIBs (see “SNMP MIBs” on page 2-52).
In addition, someone must verify that any firewalls between the SBM and the
remote solution permit the appropriate traffic.