Monitoring Availability of Farm Elements

The Control Center automatically sets up an availability monitor for each element in an active farm. The availability monitor checks the availability of a machine and informs whether the machine is up. The availability monitor cannot be modified or deleted.

Monitoring Servers

The availability monitor indicates that the server is available when the monitoring agent is running and that the server's primary interface responds to ping.

You may configure an alarm for the availability monitor if you wish to be notified of state changes. There is a maximum of two minutes lag time from the time the machine goes up or down to the time when the Control Center is notified.

Any monitor deployed to a server group is automatically applied to each server in the group.

Monitoring Load Balancers

The availability monitor indicates that the load balancer is up when the primary interface responds to ping.

You cannot configure monitors or alarms for load balancers. Availability monitors are automatically set up for load balancers which appear as red or green indicating the current status.