Specifications

Chapter 7: Monitoring Equalizer Operation
118 Equalizer Installation and Administration Guide
A management station is not provided with Equalizer and must be obtained from a third party
supplier. The management station is often used primarily to browse through the MIB tree, and so is
sometimes called a MIB browser. One such management station that is available in a free personal
edition is the iReasoning MIB Browser, available from
http://www.ireasoning.com.
A MIB database is a hierarchical tree of variables whose values describe the state of the monitored
device. A management station that want to browse the MIB database on a device sends a request to
the SNMP agent running on the device. The agent queries the MIB database for the variables
requested by the management station, and then sends a reply to the management station.
With SNMP, you can monitor the following information from the Equalizer MIBs:
Static configuration information, such as:
• Device name and Model
• Software version
• Internal and external IP addresses and netmasks
• Default gateway
• Failover alias
Equalizer’s failover details
• Sibling Name
• Sibling Status (Primary or Secondary)
Dynamic configuration information, such as:
• Failover status
• NAT enabled
• L4 configuration state
• L7 configuration state
• Server Health check status
• Email status notification
• Cluster parameters (timeouts, buffers)
• Server parameters
Equalizer status
• L4 Statistics
• L7 Statistics
Equalizer cluster configuration
• L4 or L7 protocol of cluster
• Load balancing policy for cluster.
• IP address and port (or range)
• Sticky time and cross cluster sticky
• Cookie on or off