This documentation supports the 20.02 (12.0) version of BMC Discovery.To view an earlier version of the product, select the version from the Product version menu.

Viewing a load balancer instance

A load balancer instance in BMC Discovery represents a load balancer instance configured on a network device.

  1. From the main menu, select Explore > Infrastructure.
    The Infrastructure page opens.
  2. In the Infrastructure Summary section, click Load Balancer Instances.
  3. Select a load balancer instance from the list. 
    The following screen shows a typical example of a discovered load balancer instance.
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The information fields for a discovered load balancer instance are arranged in the following groups:

Field name

Details

Name

The name of the load balancer instance; for example, F5 BIG-IP on lon-vm-f5bigip.tideway.com.

Type

The type of load balancer instance; for example, F5 BIG-IP.

Version

The load balancer instance version; for example, 11.5.1-0.0.110-Final.

Device

The link to the device where a load balancer instance is running, for example, lon-vm-f5bigip.tideway.com—To see the load balancer device page, click the corresponding table row. For more information, see Viewing load balancer device.

Failover type

Type of failover the load balancer instance uses; for example, Active-Standby, Active-Active, Service Clustering.

Failover state

State of the failover for this load balancer instance; for example, Active or Standby.

Failover group

The link to a load balancer group that contains this instance—To see the load balancer group page, click the corresponding table row. For more information, see Viewing load balancer group.

Configuration

Displays the following configuration information:

  • Failover state of the load balancer instance.
  • List of related failover devices and their failover state—To see the failover device page, click the corresponding link. For more information, see Viewing load balancer device  .
  • Load balancer services available on the load balancer instance—To see the load balancer service page, click the corresponding link. For more information, see Viewing load balancer service.
  • Load balancer pools that groups load balancer members on the load balancer instance—To see the load balancer pool page, click the corresponding link. For more information, see Viewing load balancer pool. 
  • Load balancer members (a physical server that acts as a provider of a service available to a load balancer instance)—To see the load balancer member page, click the corresponding link. For more information, see Viewing load balancer member.
  • Hosts where a load balancer services of the instance are running—To see the host page, click the corresponding link.

 

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