Performance Monitoring For Microsoft Lync

How much does an hour of Lync downtime cost your organization?

The first cloud-based, end-to-end monitoring solution for Microsoft Lync

PowerMon™ is a proactive 24x365 cloud-based monitoring solution for Lync. The solution monitors end-to-end Service Availability of Lync workloads via synthetic transactions hosted on the Microsoft Azure network worldwide. PowerMon incorporates industry-leading Unify² expertise and best practices assisting Fortune 500-class enterprises with their Lync service availability. By instantly alerting of Lync service outages globally, PowerMon helps an organization substantially reduce the time it takes to diagnose and resolve failures, even addressing failures before they are reported by end-users, significantly reducing costs associated with Lync downtime.

Features and Capabilities

End-to-End Proactive Monitoring

Proactively Driving Service Availability:

Enterprises are used to five nine class service availability with legacy TDM telephony. PowerMon provides 24 hours a day 365 days a year monitoring of Lync, and is able to alert IT outages within minutes, typically before end users call with issues. PowerMon offers end to end Lync Service Availability Monitoring spanning gateways, PSTN, SIP Trunks, Servers, Network and EDGE infrastructure all in one package. Enterprises will be able to easily spot potential issues affecting any aspect of the Lync environment with PowerMon.

Several 3rd party components need to come together for Lync availability. PowerMon offers end to end Lync Service Availability Monitoring spanning gateways, PSTN, SIP Trunks, Servers, Network and EDGE infrastructure – all in one package. By testing complete end-user scenarios spanning enterprise infrastructure as users would experience them, PowerMon can easily spot potential issues affecting any aspect of the Lync environment. Trending: PowerMon automatically provides weekly and monthly trending of service availability, giving enterprises the insights they need to attain a successful steady state with their Lync environment.

Expertise and Best Practices

Actionable Alerts

PowerMon’s actionable alerts incorporate practical Unify² expertise and real-life operational experience in large enterprise environments.

Continuous Best Practices

Unify² brings significant operational experience that spans over 30 of the Fortune 500. PowerMon customers will constantly benefit from monthly upgrades that incorporate other Enterprise experiences.

Timely Access to Expertise

Through PowerAssurance support offering, the Unify² global support team can proactively contact the enterprise immediately upon an outage alert. Enterprises will benefit from the experience Unify² has gained, and troubleshoot the outage through resolution.

Cloud Based, "Plug & Play"

Zero Touch Deployment

PowerMon is a cloud-based service hosted on Microsoft Azure, and is easy to set up and activate. Enterprises can have PowerMon fully operational and configured within days, with minutes of actual setup effort.

Highly Scalable Solution

PowerMon is a cloud-based solution that enables a global enterprise to rapidly scale its Lync monitoring to encompass hundreds of sites worldwide. Enterprises will save time, effort and expenses associated with traditional on premise monitoring solutions.

Global Reach

PowerMon utilizes the Microsoft Azure network to generate synthetic calls from multiple international hubs on a continuous basis, and can geographically distribute test PSTN calls through all connected enterprise regions/offices worldwide.