How to Discover Microsoft Network Load Balancing Systems

This task includes the following steps:

1. Prerequisite - Set up protocol credentials

   This discovery uses the NTCMD protocol, or Universal Discovery protocol if UD Agent installed on the Exchange server.

   For credential information, see Supported Protocols.

   Verify that the user defined in the NTCMD protocol is granted administration rights for Shell execution on the remote machine.

   The NTCMD protocol retrieves information about NLB by executing the wlbs params command.

2. Run the discovery

   For details on running jobs, refer to "Module/Job-Based Discovery" in the Universal CMDB Data Flow Management section of the UCMDB Online Help.

   Activate the following jobs in the following order:

   • The Host Connection by Shell job to discover Windows machines that act as the triggers for the NLB discovery.

   • The MS NLB by NTCMD or UDA job to connect to the host by NTCMD and retrieve the MS NLB Cluster topology. For job details, see MS NLB by NTCMD or UDA Job.

   For details on the discovery mechanism, see MS NLB by NTCMD or UDA Job.