What is a Foundry Load Balancer?
The Foundry Load Balancer was a key product from Foundry Networks, a company renowned for its specialized Ethernet switches and routers. Before being acquired by Brocade Communication Systems, Foundry Networks produced these load balancers to distribute network or application traffic across multiple servers effectively. The primary goal was to enhance reliability, efficiency, and capacity, thus improving overall performance and ensuring service continuity.
How to monitor a Foundry Load Balancer?
ServicePilot makes it very easy to monitora Foundry Load Balancer. Simply configure the SNMP interface of the Foundry Load Balancer. Then use the ServicePilot web interface to add a resource from the ServicePilot network-foundry-load-balancer package.
The statistics gathered in this way include:
- Network: Ping Response Time and Interfaces activity
- System: CPU and memory
- RealServers: State and traffic
- Environment: Fan and Power Supply
How to install a foundry-load-balancer resource?
- Use your ServicePilot OnPremise installation or a SaaS account.
- Add a new foundry-load-balancer resource via the web interface (
/prmviewsor/prmresources) or via API (/prmpackagespage), the default ServicePilot agent or another agent will be provisioned automatically.
Details of the foundry-load-balancer package are located in the
/prmpackagespage of the software.
Benefits
ServicePilot enables you to deliver IT services faster and more securely with automated discovery and advanced monitoring features.
By correlating the technology FOUNDRY LOAD BALANCER with APM and infrastructure monitoring, ServicePilot is able to provide a more comprehensive view of an organization's IT environment.
This allows IT teams to quickly identify and diagnose issues that may be impacting application performance, and take corrective action before end-users are affected.
Start with a free trial of our SaaS solution. Explore our plans or contact us to find what works best for you.
