Metric Server provides server load information to the Load Balancer in the form of system-specific metrics, reporting on the health of the servers.
The Metric Server agent must be installed and running on all servers that are being load balanced.
If you are using IPv6 protocol on your machine and want to use Metric Server, you must check to see if protocol 58 is defined to be ICMPv6 in the protocol file.
ipv6-icmp 58 IPv6-ICMP # IPv6 interface control message protocolThe protocol file is in the following directory:
/etc/protocols
C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\
Metric Server Restriction: Like the Metric Server agent, the WLM agent reports on server systems as a whole, rather than on individual protocol-specific server daemons. Metric Server and WLM place their results into the system column of the manager report. As a consequence, running both the WLM advisor and Metric Server at the same time is not supported.