You can use the NSX Advanced Load Balancer entity pages to get detailed insight of NSX Advanced Load Balancer entities such as cluster, data source, tenant, controller, pool, virtual service, service engine, and analytics profile.

How to Access NSX Advanced Load Balancer Entity Pages?

To access NSX Advanced Load Balancer entity pages:
  1. Enter NSX-ALB in the Search bar.
  2. In the search result, click the entity type that you want to view, and press Enter.
  3. On the respective entity type page, click the name of the entity for which you want to view the details.

Alternatively, select Entities on the left navigation pane and enter ALB or NSX-ALB in the entity search bar.

NSX Advanced Load Balancer Entity Details Pages

Entity Name Description
NSX-ALB Cluster You see the deployment details at the cluster level, which includes:
  • Summary of open alerts
  • Count of Tenants, Clouds, Service Engines, Service Engine Groups, Virtual Services, Pools and Pool Members in the deployment.
  • List of key properties
  • List of Controllers
  • List of alerts encountered in the last seven days
  • Health of Virtual Services
  • Graphical representation of the following metrics:
    • Controller Metrics
    • Service Engine Metrics
    • Virtual Service Metrics
    • Pool Metrics
NSX-ALB Data Source You see the details of the data source which includes:
  • List of key properties
  • List of open problems
  • List of all the changes and the problems encountered in the last seven days
NSX-ALB Controller You see the details of the controller which includes:
  • List of key properties
  • List of alerts encountered in the last seven days
  • Graphical representation of the CPU Usage Metrics
    Note: You have to be a super user to view this metrics.
NSX-ALB Tenant You see the details of the tenant which includes:
  • Summary of open alerts
  • Count of Service Engines, Service Engine Groups, Virtual Services, Pools and Pool Members in the deployment.
  • List of key properties of the tenant
  • List of alerts encountered in the last seven days
  • Graphical representation of the following metrics:
    • Virtual Service Metrics
    • Service Engine Metrics
    • Pool Metrics
NSX-ALB Cloud You see the deployment details at the Cloud level which includes:
  • Summary of open alerts
  • Count of Service Engines, Service Engine Groups, Virtual Services, Pools and Pool Members in the deployment.
  • List of key properties
  • List of open alerts encountered in the last seven days
  • Graphical representation of the following metrics:
    • Service Engine Metrics
    • Virtual Service Metrics
    • Pool Metrics
NSX-ALB Service Engine Group You see the details of the Service Engine Group which includes:
  • Summary of open alerts
  • Count of Service Engines, Virtual Services, Pools and Pool Members in the deployment.
  • List of key properties
  • List of alerts encountered in the last seven days
  • Graphical representation of the following metrics:
    • Virtual Service Metrics
    • Service Engine Metrics
    • Pool Metrics
NSX-ALB Service Engine You see the details of the Service Engine which includes:
  • Summary of open alerts
  • Count of Virtual Services, Pools, and Pool Members
  • List of alerts encountered in the last seven days
  • Graphical representation of the following metrics:
    • Virtual Service Metrics
    • Service Engine Metrics
    • Pool Metrics
NSX-ALB Virtual Service You see the details of the Virtual Service which includes:
  • List of key properties
  • List of Pool Members
  • List of VMs associated with the Virtual Service
  • List of Pool Members associated with this Virtual Service by Sum of Connections
  • List of alerts encountered in the last seven days
  • Graphical representation of the Virtual Service Metrics
NSX-ALB Pool You see the details of the pool which includes:
  • List of key properties
  • List of Pool Members associated with the pool
  • List of VMs in the pool
  • List of alerts encountered in the last seven days
  • Graphical representation of the Pool Metrics
NSX-ALB Pool Member You see the details of the pool member which includes:
  • List of key properties
  • Details of the VM that is backing the Pool Member
  • List of alerts encountered in the last seven days
  • Graphical representation of VM and Pool Metrics
NSX-ALB Pool Group You see the details of the Pool Group which includes:
  • List of key properties
  • List of alerts encountered in the last seven days
  • Graphical representation of the Pool Metrics
NSX-ALB Analytics Profile You see the detailed analytics of NSX Advanced Load Balancer which includes:
  • List of key properties
  • List of alerts encountered in the last seven days
  • List of Virtual Services