Monitoring the Cluster Using WLBS

The best tool to use to monitor the status of the cluster is the wlbs command. This command is available on any server that has NLB installed. Using this command you can check the status of the convergence, check the settings of your server, stop or start clustering, and even perform these commands on other servers in the cluster. The wlbs command has many command-line options. You can view these options by just running the wlbs command with no parameters.

The two most useful commands available are the wlbs display and wlbs query commands. The wlbs display command will display all the current cluster settings for your server in one consolidated output, as shown in Listing 27.1. The wlbs query command will show ...

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