Monitoring Infoblox

eG Enterprise provides a specialized Infoblox appliance monitoring model (see Figure 1) to monitor the services of the Infoblox appliance, the messages transmitted/received through various protocols, the DNS zones in the appliance etc .

Figure 1 : The layer model of an Infoblox appliance

Every layer of Figure 1 is mapped to a variety of tests which connect via SSH commands to collect critical statistics in the Infoblox appliance pertaining to its performance. The metrics reported by these tests enable administrators to answer the following questions:

  • Is any fan running at an abnormal speed?
  • Has any power supply unit failed? If so, which are those power supply units?
  • Is the appliance running short of CPU/disk/memory resources?
  • Is the Infoblox database running out of object capacity?
  • Is the target Infoblox appliance the grid master of an Infoblox grid?
  • Has the license of the target appliance expired?
  • Is the target appliance part of a high availability setup? If yes, has the appliance switched over recently?
  • Is there a sudden spike in the count of DHCP requests and DHCP discovers to the target appliance?
  • Is the target Infoblox appliance available over SSH?
  • Are there any DNS request failures encountered by DNS queries? If so, which DNS query encountered frequent failures?

  • Has any type of DNS request encountered frequent failure on the target appliance?