Wlbs Display Command

The wlbs display command-line command provides much valuable information about the Network Load Balancing host on which it is carried out. It is intended for use in diagnosing problems with NLB configurations. The information comprises the following areas:

  • Details of the current cluster configuration.
    This section includes the current values for the cluster parameters, host parameters, and port rules, and other registry values for the host.
    For more information about the cluster parameters, host parameters, and port rules, see Windows 2000 Network Load Balancing Help.

  • Last 10 event messages.
    The output for each message is the output of the event log. Each message is followed by two lines of hexadecimal numbers.
    For the sake of brevity, all the event messages but one were deleted from the following sample output.

  • IP configuration of the host operating system and network adapter.
    This is the output of the ipconfig command.

  • Current state of the cluster.
    This is the membership of the cluster as of the last convergence.

The following is an example of the output of the wlbs display command:

D:\>wlbs display
WLBS Cluster Control Utility V2.3. (c) 1997-99 Microsoft Corporation
=== Configuration: ===
Current time              = Thu Jul 01 13:02:23 1999
ParametersVersion         = 4
VirtualNICName            = \Device\{31270FF0-11FD-11D3-8B19-02BFAC1FF0AB}
AliveMsgPeriod            = 1000
AliveMsgTolerance         = 5
NumActions                = 50
NumPackets                = 100
NumAliveMsgs              = 66
ClusterNetworkAddress     = 02-bf-00-00-00-00
ClusterName               = cluster.reskit.com
ClusterIPAddress          = 0.0.0.0
ClusterNetworkMask        = 255.255.248.0
DedicatedIPAddress        = 172.31.240.170
DedicatedNetworkMask      = 255.255.248.0
HostPriority              = 1
ClusterModeOnStart        = ENABLED
LicenseKey                =
DescriptorsPerAlloc       = 512
MaxDescriptorAllocs       = 512
ScaleSingleClient         = 0
NBTSupportEnable          = 1
MulticastSupportEnable    = 0
MulticastARPEnable        = 1
MaskSourceMAC             = 1
IPToMACEnable             = 1
ConnectionCleanupDelay    = 300000
RemoteControlEnabled      = 1
RemoteControlUDPPort      = 2504
RemoteControlCode         = 0x0
RemoteMaintenanceEnabled  = 0x0
CurrentVersion            = V2.3
InstallDate               = 0x36D75CDA
VerifyDate                = 0x1C9E7553
NumberOfRules             = 1
PortRules
Start   End     Prot    Mode            Pri     Load    Affinity
   1    65535   Both    Multiple                Equal   S
00000001 0000FFFF 6FFFF001 00000002 00000003 00000001 00010001 00000000
=== Event messages: ===
#3852 ID: 0x40070024 Type: 4 Category: 0 Time: Fri Jun 11 15:29:16 1999
WLBS : registry parameters successfully reloaded.
00000070 00420042 00490041 002D004E 00310057 004E002D 00350054 00000000
00370031 002E0032 00310033 0032002E 00300034 0031002E 00310037
=== IP configuration: ===
Windows NT IP Configuration
        Host Name . . . . . . . . . : NLB-HOST-1
        Primary Domain Name . . . . : testclus.reskit.com
        Node Type . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . : Yes
        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . : No
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
        Adapter Domain Name . . . . :
        DNS servers . . . . . . . . :
        Description . . . . . . . . : 3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI TX NIC (3C905
B-TX)
        Physical Address. . . . . . : 00-C0-4F-57-0E-34
        DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 172.31.240.170
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.248.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . :
=== Current state: ===
Host 1 is stopped and does not know convergence state of the cluster.