MS NLB by NTCMD or UDA Job

DFM triggers on Windows machines with more than one (two or more) IP addresses, and collects information using the nlb.exe command line utility. (In earlier versions of the Windows 2000 family, wlbs.exe is used.) These utilities enable the retrieval of all NLB-related information. For details, see MS NLB by NTCMD or UDA Adapter.

There is no need for DFM to collect information from every participating node to verify that an MS NLB cluster system exists: even one single machine running the software is considered a cluster machine. If more machines are discovered that include the NLB service (with the same settings as the first machine), the NLB cluster begins the convergence process.

Furthermore, cluster information is collected by discovering one node at a time because nodes participating in a cluster do not include information about the other participants.

• Trigger CIT: NTCMD

• Trigger query:



• CI Attribute Condition: NTCMD or UDA running on a Windows machine with at least two IP addresses.

Name	Category	Description
ntcmd_with_2_IP	Trigger	Used by the MS NLB by NTCMD or UDA job
MS NLB topology	View	Used by the MS NLB Topology view

This job uses the MS NLB by NTCMD or UDA adapter. For details, see MS NLB by NTCMD or UDA Adapter.

• Microsoft NLB topology

• ms_nlb_report_utils.py

• ms_nlb_ntcmd.py

• Composition

• ConfigurationDocument. For details, see MS NLB by NTCMD or UDA Adapter.

• Containment

• IpAddress

• Membership

• MS NLB Cluster. For details, see MS NLB by NTCMD or UDA Adapter.

• NLB Cluster Software. For details, see MS NLB by NTCMD or UDA Adapter.

• Node