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BryanS_12854
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Mar 12, 2008

Load Balancing Windows Terminal Services using WMI or SNMP

Hello all:

 

 

I have a Windows 2003 Terminal Server farm that consists of 15 nodes and is using Session Directory. I would like to load balance them based on server load (CPU and Memory load). Can anyone tell me how to go about doing this? I have WMI configured on the nodes but do not know where I need to go from there. I also have the option os using SNMP is that makes it easier.

 

 

Anyone's help would be greatly appreciated!

 

 

Bryan
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  • JRahm's avatar
    JRahm
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    Mar 12, 2008
    you will need to enable iis on the terminal servers and install the isapi plugin to use wmi. At the pool level, assign wmi monitor and dynamic ratio. At the virtual level, assign the msrdp profile for persistence.

     

     

    For snmp, substitute the snmp_dca monitor for the wmi monitor. Only requirement on the terminal server for this is a correctly configured snmp agent.

     

     

    I'm assuming you know best what your monitor/persistence profile configuration options should be.
  • BryanS_12854's avatar
    BryanS_12854
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    Mar 12, 2008
    I have the f5ISAPI.dll file loaded and the Terminal Servers configured. I also ahve a WMI monitor defined and Dynamic Ratio selected, but what do I do from there? I can't find anything that lets me set threshholds for CPU/Memory loads or even view them. Am I missing something?

     

     

    Sorry if I seem kind of dumb on this, but I am a mewbie.