Centralized Load Balancer Status Down Alarm

Products

• VMware NSX

Issue/Introduction

Title: Alarm for Centralized Load Balancer Status Down

Event ID: load_balancer.lb_status_down

Alarm Description:

• Purpose: To inform users that the centralized load balancer service is down completely.
• Impact: All the traffic to this load balancer is broken.

Environment

VMware NSX-T Datacenter
VMware NSX

Cause

Load balancer service is not ready on both active and standby Edge nodes.

Resolution

Steps to resolve
For 3.0.0 and higher

Recommendation Action:

    On active Edge node, check load balancer status by invoking the NSX CLI command `get load-balancer <lb-uuid> status`.

    If the LB-State of load balancer service is not_ready or there is no output, make the Edge node enter maintenance mode, then exit maintenance mode.

Maintenance window required for remediation? Yes