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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
    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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Christopher_Boo
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May 20, 2011
I'm in the process of building a new 2008 print server environment and wanted a better health monitor for print services. Following the instructions in the article below, you can create a health monitor for anything that can be queried via WMI (windows service state, cpu, memory, etc.). The title is kind of misleading as the benefits go much further than just terminal services monitoring, but the info is huge for me. Figured it was worth pointing out....

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Tutorials/TechTips/tabid/63/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1086419/Monitoring-Windows-Terminal-Services-from-BIG-IP.aspx