HP Network Optimizer SDN Application - Microsoft Lync 1.0 Administrator Guide

Contents
1 Net Optimizer - Lync overview......................................................................5
Functions.................................................................................................................................5
Switch flow interaction...............................................................................................................6
2 Quick start................................................................................................9
3 Navigating the user interface.....................................................................11
Accessing Net Optimizer - Lync................................................................................................11
Net Optimizer - Lync navigation tree and navigation menu...........................................................11
Net Optimizer - Lync navigation tree.....................................................................................11
Navigation menu...............................................................................................................12
4 Licensing.................................................................................................13
Storage Keeping Unit (SKU).....................................................................................................13
Grace allowance....................................................................................................................13
License usages.......................................................................................................................13
Installing license for Net Optimizer - Lync...................................................................................14
Registering the application license and obtaining a license key................................................14
Activating the license for the application on HP VAN SDN Controller........................................15
License warning and error messages.........................................................................................15
Viewing license warning and error messages in HP VAN SDN Controller..................................15
5 Viewing Net Optimizer - Lync dashboard.....................................................16
Accessing Net Optimizer - Lync dashboard................................................................................16
Obtaining the latest data on the Dashboard view.......................................................................16
Viewing Active Sessions/Users In Time chart..............................................................................17
Net Optimizer - Lync license limits........................................................................................17
Active Sessions/Users In Time chart......................................................................................18
Viewing Lync SDN Manager status chart...................................................................................19
Viewing the QoE Metrics chart.................................................................................................20
Viewing the Best effort reasons chart.........................................................................................21
6 Configuring Net Optimizer - Lync................................................................24
Configuring your switches........................................................................................................24
Accessing the Configurations page...........................................................................................24
Configuring hard phone VLANs to not be applied with QoS policy via Net Optimizer - Lync............24
Adding VoIP hard VLANs to Net Optimizer - Lync..................................................................25
Verifying the DSCP value of a Lync call from the specified hard phone VLANs............................25
Configuring VLANs with no Best effort remarking........................................................................27
Configuring gateways for crossing SDN domain boundary..........................................................27
Adding a gateway.............................................................................................................27
Removing a gateway from the gateway list............................................................................28
Enabling/Disabling Anonymous mode......................................................................................28
Configuring Lync SDN Managers..............................................................................................29
Adding a Lync SDN Manager.............................................................................................29
Deleting a registered Lync SDN Manager.............................................................................29
Verifying status of a Lync SDN Manager...............................................................................29
Configuring Lync FE servers......................................................................................................30
Adding a Lync FE server.....................................................................................................30
Deleting an added Lync FE Server........................................................................................30
DSCP settings.........................................................................................................................31
Modifying DSCP settings for different media types..................................................................31
Verifying DSCP marking for a specific session or flow.............................................................32
Verifying the DSCP marking using the Sessions table..........................................................32
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