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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Cisco ACE load balancer discovery

Discovery identifies and classifies information about ACE load balancers.

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

Credentials

Configure SNMP credentials and SSH credentials.

Classifier, pattern, and probe

ClassifierTrigger probesPattern
ACE Load BalancerHorizontal discovery probe: launches patternsACE Load Balancer by SSH (formerly ACE Load Balancer)

Data collected

The following data is collected on the Ace Load Balancers [cmdb_ci_lb_ace] table.

LabelField Name
Serial Numberserial_number
Operational Statusoperational_status

The following data is collected on the Load Balancer Services [cmdb_ci_lb_service] table.

LabelField Name
Namename
IP addressip_address
Portport
Operational statusoperational_status
Install statusinstall_status
Short descriptionshort_description

The following data is collected on the DNS [cmdb_ci_dns_name] table.

LabelField name
Namename
IP addressip_address

The following data is collected on the Load Balancer Pool [cmdb_ci_lb_pool] table.

LabelField name
Namename
Contextcontext
Load balancing methodload_balancing_method

The following data is collected on the Load Balancer Pool Members [cmdb_ci_lb_pool_member] table.

LabelField name
Namename
IP addressip_address
Service portservice_port
Poolpool
Contextcontext

The following data is collected on the Serial Number [cmdb_serial_number] table.

LabelField name
Serial numberserial_number
Serial number typeserial_number_type
Validvalid

The following data is collected on the Load Balancer Interface table [cmdb_ci_lb_interface] table:

LabelField name
Namename
MAC addressmac_address
Operational statusoperational_status

Parent Topic:Load balancer discovery