Load balanced IIS servers discovery

Microsoft.Windows.NetworkLoadBalancing.2008.LoadBalancingIIS.Discovery (Discovery)

This discovery discovers IIS servers that are load balanced using NLB.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This discovery discovers the containment relationship between NLB and IIS. Without this relationship, the health state of IIS can not be rolled up to the health state of NLB.

Configuration

You can only configure the interval value for this discovery. The value is in seconds.

Element properties:

Target	Microsoft.Windows.NetworkLoadBalancing.2008.ServerRole
Enabled	True
Frequency	14400
Remotable	False

Object Discovery Details:

Discovered relationships and their attribuets:
Microsoft.Windows.NetworkLoadBalancing.ServerRoleContainsDependantServerRole

Member Modules:

ID	Module Type	TypeId	RunAs
DS	DataSource	Microsoft.Windows.Server.LoadBalanced.IIS.2008.Discovery.DataSource	Default

Source Code:

<Discovery ID="Microsoft.Windows.NetworkLoadBalancing.2008.LoadBalancingIIS.Discovery" Enabled="onEssentialMonitoring" Target="NLB2008!Microsoft.Windows.NetworkLoadBalancing.2008.ServerRole" ConfirmDelivery="false" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal">

  <Category>Discovery</Category>

  <DiscoveryTypes>

    <DiscoveryRelationship TypeID="NLBLibrary!Microsoft.Windows.NetworkLoadBalancing.ServerRoleContainsDependantServerRole"/>

  </DiscoveryTypes>

  <DataSource ID="DS" TypeID="Microsoft.Windows.Server.LoadBalanced.IIS.2008.Discovery.DataSource">

    <IntervalSeconds>14400</IntervalSeconds>

    <NlbNodeNamePropName>$MPElement[Name="NLBLibrary!Microsoft.Windows.NetworkLoadBalancing.ServerRole"]/NodeName$</NlbNodeNamePropName>

    <NlbNodeNamePropValue>$Target/Property[Type="NLBLibrary!Microsoft.Windows.NetworkLoadBalancing.ServerRole"]/NodeName$</NlbNodeNamePropValue>

    <ComputerPrincipalNamePropName>$MPElement[Name="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</ComputerPrincipalNamePropName>

    <ComputerPrincipalNamePropValue>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</ComputerPrincipalNamePropValue>

  </DataSource>

</Discovery>