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Supported load balancers

BMC Discovery can discover and model the load balancing instances and their configuration for certain NetworkDevice nodes that were previously displayed with a type of Layer 3 Switch. You can discover dedicated hardware load balancers, such as Application Delivery Controllers from F5 or Citrix (NetScaler), or the virtualized versions of these devices. 

Load balancer information is discovered by using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). When BMC Discovery finds a hardware or virtualized Application Delivery Controller (ADC) that has load balancer options enabled, it creates a network device node and triggers the load balancer discovery TPL patterns to query the necessary information about the related load balancing components, including pools, hosts, and services. As soon as these elements are discovered, the following nodes (with relationships) are modeled, where applicable: 

  • Load Balancer Group
  • Load Balancer Instance
  • Load Balancer Service
  • Load Balancer Pool
  • Load Balancer Member

Familiarize yourself with the storage improvements by navigating through the following key sections of this documentation:

  • Release notes and notices — Details of improvements, known issues, and workarounds introduced in each product release.
  • Load balancers pages —  An overview of load balancer models, supported service states and types, and other vendor-specific details.

 

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