Monitoring NLB cluster Microsoft with IM7

[Primo]

Hi all,
I need some informations about monitoring NLB cluster Microsoft with IM7.
I've already monitoring Mscs cluster very well.
Thanks in advance at all

[David Claypool · Accepted solution]

Neither IM7 nor hpSIM have any special recognition of Microsoft Network Load Balancing. Certainly you will want to load the Insight agents on the systems so IM7 can monitor them and they can send events when something goes awry.

Additionally, you may want to use the field that is available in the agents called "Server Role" and set that to a common name or description of the cluster. That way you can easily group them by creating a query based on that field. Once that query is created, you can use the "My Favorites" category that will give an at-a-glance status indication of all of the members of the cluster.

Since I'm assuming that most activities that relate to the NLB cluster will be written to the NT event log, read up on the EVNTWIN utility on the Microsoft site to see how you could use that to turn event log messages into SNMP traps that can be directed to IM7.

One of the things that could be interesting is exploring the wlbs.exe CLI utility. Used in conjunction with new hpSIM's distributed task function, you could do all kinds of cool things.

Last, HP does provide a product in the OpenView family that does extensive monitoring of load balancing. See more here: http://www.openview.hp.com/products/spi/spi_msnet/index.html

[Primo]

David,
many thanks for your informations!