Contents
Integrating with Operations Manager and Service Monitor
Creating a Capacity Planning Home View
Creating a Trunk Capacity Trend Report
Create a Trunk Utilization SLA
Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager Licensing
This document outlines best practices for a successful deployment of Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager. It documents the initial deployment and ongoing operational environments.
This document is not an alternative to the installation guide or the user guide, as it does not cover all the features and functions of the product. It is a supplement to the installation guide and the user guide. Detailed steps are provided for best practices wherever relevant.
Figure 1. Deployment Example
Features and Benefits
• Integrates with and uses the data collection capabilities of Cisco Unified Operations Manager and Cisco Unified Service Monitor to harvest and consolidate Cisco Unified Communications statistics information from a variety of Cisco devices and systems, including Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express (formerly known as Cisco Unified CallManager Express), Cisco Unity software, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Unity Express, and Cisco IOS® Software-based voice gateways; the collected data stored in a consolidated database can be partitioned based on a variety of network, service, user, and business criteria for detailed analysis and reporting.
• Provides a variety of ready-made reports on key metrics including call volume, service availability, call quality, and resource utilization across the Cisco Unified Communications System. Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager 1.0 provides a variety of reports for executive, operations, and capacity planning personnel. These include:
– Call volume, call duration, service availability, service quality, call completion, and mean opinion score (MOS) reports across multiple Cisco Unified Communications Manager clusters, with capabilities to get more information about specific clusters and time periods
– A variety of top-N reports based on calls, users, endpoints, and other entities in the Cisco Unified Communications deployment
– Gateway and trunk traffic and utilization reports over time, with capacity trending and capabilities to get more detailed information
– Call failure analysis reports over time, including cause code information
– Top-N upgrade and downgrade candidates reports for capacity planning and trending
– IP phone and inventory reports
– IP telephony testing reports, including IP SLA test results over time
– A variety of exception and operations reports, including most frequently dialed numbers, longest calls, calls to specified number, and more
– A variety of SLA reports, including SLA capacity trends, SLA compliance history, SLA executive summary, SLA health summary, and more
• Helps enable the user to personalize reports, customizing the content as well as the format and presentation of the reports.
• Facilitates the distribution of reports to executive, operations, and capacity planning personnel through e-mail as well as a user-friendly Web-based portal that features a customizable dashboard displayed when the user logs in. Users can specify the reports to be shown on their dashboard as well as the layout in a user-friendly manner. The product features intuitive navigation and detailed reporting from aggregate to fine levels.
• Provides powerful scheduling features, facilitating the generation and distribution of user-specified reports automatically at specific times.
• Facilitates the export of data and reports to external applications and users in a variety of formats, including HTML, PDF, and comma-separated value (CSV) file formats.
Server Requirements
Table 1. System Requirements for Standalone Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager Deployments
Table 2. System Requirements for Coresident Deployments
Integrating with Operations Manager and Service Monitor
1. Log in to the Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager GUI through http://<hostname>:80 where hostname is the name of the machine running Cisco USSM. See Figure 2.
Figure 2. Log in to the Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager
2. Then click Administration > Show (in the Advanced section-see Figure 3).
Figure 3. Click Show in the Advanced Section
Figure 4. Enter the Operations Manager Server Name, Username, and Password and Click Discover
3. Enter the IP address of the Operations Manager server, username, and password.
4. Click Discover.
Administration Tab
Figure 5. Functions in the Administration Tab
Creating a Capacity Planning Home View
1. Click the Create button.
2. Enter Capacity Planning Home in the View Title field.
3. Click Add Reports.
4. Select the reports for this view.
Figure 6. Creating a Capacity Planning Home View
5. Click Add to View after selecting the reports.
Figure 7. Click Finish to Add the Reports
6. Click Finish (see Figure 7).
Figure 8. To View Details, Click on the Appropriate Graph or Title
Capacity Trend Reports
Creating a Trunk Group
1. Launch the console from Start > Programs > Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager > Cisco Unified Service Statistics Manager Admin (Figure 9) and log in (Figure 10).
Figure 9. Launch the Administration Console
Figure 10. Log In
2. Right-Click Group > Add Group (see Figure 11).
Figure 11. Click Add Group
3. Enter the group name (Figure 12).
Figure 12. Add the Group Name
4. Expand the All Monitored Resources tree to Trunk Utilization. Select the trunks in the San Jose group and click Add (Figure 13).
5. Click Finish.
Figure 13. Click Add to Add the Resources
Figure 14. Creating a Trunk Capacity Trend Report
Creating a Trunk Capacity Trend Report
1. Select the Reports tab and click Create (Figure 15).
Figure 15. Creating a Capacity Trends Report
2. Click the Selected Groups option.
3. Highlight San Jose Trunks and move to Selected Groups.
4. Click the Single Attribute option.
5. Select Trunk Utilization and Utilization from the drop-down lists.
6. Enter the Capacity Threshold.
7. Select the appropriate time duration for "Show Instance that will violate in the next:" and "Use data of the last:"
8. Click Next.
Figure 16. Choosing Report Options
9. Select the 3D Bar radio button for the Graph Type.
10. Select the "Show Device name with Monitor Info", "Show Source Agent with Monitor Info", and "Show Report Details at:" check boxes.
11. Select the "Generate This Report Immediately After Adding to the Schedule" check box.
12. Click Finish.
Figure 17. Enter Report Details
13. Click the Capacity Trend report from the Reports table (Figures 17 and 18).
Figure 18. The Capacity Trend Report for San Jose Trunks
SLA Creation
Modify/Create Attribute Set
1. In the Administration tab, select Edit for Attribute Set (Figure 19).
Figure 19. Edit the Attribute Sets
2. Click Add or Edit an existing attribute, for example, System Utilization.
3. Add attributes (Figures 20 and 21).
Figure 20. The Attribute Set Administration Dialog Box
Figure 21. The Edit Attribute Set Dialog Box
4. Select Trunk Utilization and click Next.
5. Select the Call Count attribute and click Next (Figures 22 and 23).
Figure 22. Select Trunk Utilization
Figure 23. Select the Call Count Attribute
Create a Trunk Utilization SLA
1. On the SLA tab, click SLA Administration > Add.
2. Enter the name and contact information, then select Trunk Utilization from the SLA Type drop-down list and fill in 75% for the SLA Compliance Objective (Figure 24).
3. Click Next.
Figure 24. Entering the SLA Details
4. Select the trunks to monitor and click Next (Figure 25).
Figure 25. Select the Elements to Monitor
5. Select all or individual trunks, enter the condition parameters, and click Apply and Finish (Figure 26).
Figure 26. Enter the Service-Level Objective Values
6. The Trunk Utilization SLA is created; to view it, click Compliance Matrix (Figures 27 and 28).
Figure 27. Click Compliance Matrix to View the Trunk Utilization SLA
Figure 28. Details for the Trunk Utilization SLA
7. Click one of the Threshold Condition links to see more details (Figure 29).
Figure 29. The Threshold Condition Links Provide More Details
Super-SLA
Figure 30. Branch SLAs
1. Click Add in SLA Administration to create the regional SLA (Figure 31).
Figure 31. Enter the SLA Details
2. Select the three branch SLAs from the list and click the top arrow (Figure 32).
Figure 32. Select the SLAs
3. The weight can be changed, or you can accept the default setting; click Finish (Figure 33).
Figure 33. Enter a Weight for the Selected SLAs
4. The newly created SLA is shown in the SLA Administration table (Figure 34).
Figure 34. The SLA Administration Table
5. Click the Compliance Matrix to view the status of the SLAs. The table will only display the SJ-Jitter SLA since the branch SLAs have been rolled up into SJ-Jitter (Figure 35).
Figure 35. The Compliance Matrix
6. View the branch SLAs by clicking SJ-Jitter in the list of SLAs.
Figure 36. The Branch SLAs
SLA Capacity Trends
Figure 37. SLA Capacity Trends Report
