Server Farm Configuration (Windows SharePoint Services 2.0)
Figure 1: Server Farm Configuration
Public DNS servers
Internet
Router (Cisco Systems)
Load balancer (F5 Networks BIG-IP)
Load balancer (F5 Networks BIG-IP)
Front-end Web server farm (six servers)
SMTP and DNS server
Terminal services, debugging, and administration server
SQL Server server 1
SQL Server server 2
SQL Server server 3
SQL Server server 4
SAN unit (Hewlett Packard)
Active Directory domain controller 1
Active Directory domain controller 2
MOM server
Backup server (Veritas software)
Backup tape device
HTML transformation server
Imaging and installation server (Altiris deployment server)
Router (Cisco Systems)
Edge network
Figure 1 shows the diagram of the server farm and network set up by the Internet Platform and Operations group. The following sections will discuss the implementation of monitoring this Windows SharePoint Services server farm in detail.