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Topic Last Modified: 2010-07-18

Monitoring Server is a server role that enables you to collect numerical data describing the media quality on your network and endpoints, usage information related to Voice over IP (VoIP) calls, instant messaging (IM) messages, audio/video conversations, meetings, application sharing, and file transfers, and call error and troubleshooting information for failed calls. A Monitoring Server deployment requires the following prerequisites:

Except for the above prerequisites, Monitoring Server hardware and software requirements are the same as for a typical Communications Server deployment. You will use the following steps to deploy Monitoring Server:

The steps are described in topic listed below.

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