Cisco GSS load balancer discovery

Discovery of Cisco GSS load balancers is performed by both SNMP and SSH.

Note:

For information on Probe to Pattern migration see the knowledge article KB0694477.

Classifiers

Discovery uses the Cisco GSS Load Balancer classifier, which contains the condition: sysdescr contains Global Site Selector to classify the device.

Probes

Discovery uses several probes, including an SNMP probe to discover the specific GSS device and a Serial Number probe to identify the serial number of the device. See the table below for the list of related probes.

Warning:

You must have SNMP and SSH credentials configured correctly for the GSS load balancers on your network.

The following probes are triggered after classification:

Probe	Description	Type
Cisco GSS - Identity	A multiprobe that identifies the GSS device and serial number.	MultiProbe
Cisco GSS - Network	This is included in the Cisco GSS - Identify probe.	Java- SNMP
Cisco GSS - Serial Number	This is included in the Cisco GSS - Identify probe.	JavaScript
Cisco GSS - Get Domains	A probe that discovers global domain names corresponding to the device.	JavaScript

Tables

Discovery creates a record for each GSS device in the Cisco GSS [cmdb_ci_lb_cisco_gss] table. Domains are populated in the DNS Names [cmdb_ci_dns_name] table. Host names and IP addresses are stored in the IP Address to DNS Name [cmdb_ip_address_dns_name] table. Service Mapping uses this information. You can see the DNS name information on the DNS Names for CIs related list of the Load Balancer form.

Note:

The Cisco GSS pattern is available by default to use with the Pattern Designer.