Collecting Monitoring Data

When defining a Director pool within Topology Builder, an administrator is asked whether the pool should be associated with a Monitoring server for QoE and CDR statistics. This might seem puzzling at first since that type of data is traditionally considered related to the media streams and used to track down call quality issues. However, Directors can still report some data to the Monitoring store, so it is worth associating the Director pool if a Monitoring server already exists. Statistics such as user logons and client versions will be logged by the Director as it authenticates users and passes traffic. This type of data can be useful for trending analysis of sign-on volume and traffic spikes related to specific times of day for global organizations.