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vrivoire_97090
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Oct 29, 2008

MS Print servers

Hi all,     I am planning to use my new F5 LTM to load balance Windows Server 2003 print servers. For the moment, it doesn't work for me: I can see the shared printer but I can't map it. ...
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  • Christopher_Boo's avatar
    Christopher_Boo
    Feb 05, 2014

    Here's the new link to the guide for creating the WMI monitor. As I recall it was pretty straightforward. I'm even using the same interval and timeout. Looking at my monitor properties, the only thing I see that is different is my alias service port is 3389 and the external program path is /usr/bin/monitors. Also, you'll need to enable remote WMI requests on the win2k8 boxes if not already enabled.

     

    Monitoring WMI Services from Big-IP

     

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Stefan_Klotz
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May 03, 2011
Hi Chris,

as I'm only responsible for the Loadbalancer I can only provide this config (I hope the server guy has done his job correctly as well, he mentioned that he want's to test some additional things these days, but didn't get any feedback yet):

virtual mltprtp01 {
   destination 10.10.10.10:any
   translate address disable
   profile fastL4_print_profile
   pool printer_cluster_mltprtp01
   vlans Productie enable
}
pool printer_cluster_mltprtp01 {
   action on svcdown reselect
   monitor all check_mltprtp01_tcp_445
   member 10.10.10.20:any
   member 10.10.10.21:any
        
}
monitor check_mltprtp01_tcp_445 {
   defaults from tcp
   dest *:microsoft-ds
}
profile fastL4 fastL4_print_profile {
   defaults from fastL4
   tcp close timeout 51
   loose close enable
}
As you can see the VIP is in the same subnet as the printservers, but I hope this is not a problem.

Thank you for any additional ideas or information.

Ciao Stefan üôÇ