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
- Is the CPU, memory and temperature of the Infoblox appliance within optimal limits?
- What is the current status of each service running on the Infoblox appliance? What is the current status of the Physical node service?
- Is the Infoblox appliance to be monitored configured in a high availability pair?
- How many messages such as DHCPRequest, DHCPReceive, DHCPRelease etc were transmitted/received through DHCP protocol?
- How many messages such as Solicit, Request, Release, Advertise etc were transmitted/received through DHCP6 protocol?
- How well each DNS zone of the Infoblox appliance handles queries?
- How well the Infoblox appliance handles queries and how well responses are sent from the DNS cache?
- How many replies were sent from an authoritative server and how many from a non authoritative server?
- Is the license nearing the expiry date?
- Is the appliance up and running?
- Is the CPU/memory/disk being over-utilized?
- Are there too many DNS queries that had failed to return a response?
- Are there too many DNS requests that had failed?
- Is the grid master unavailable?
- Is the capacity usage of the database very high?
- Are the NTP servers facing delay/offset?
