NLB Web Front End (WFEs)servers & Clustering IIS Application Pool between the two WFEs

Hi All,
I have just encountered a very bad experience in my Production environment.My topology is as follows: NLB WFEs, MOSS APP server, Cluster DBs, DCs.
NLB on the WFEs is working fine. However, for some unknown reason, one of my site under the Application Pool in IIS Manager was stopped on one of the WFE and the site was down. NLB did not redirect request to the second WFE server.
My question is: How can I make sites under the Application Pool highly available? If any site is in a stopped state, there should be a mechanism in place to redirect request to the Application Pool on the second NLB WFE.
Kindly help and advise.
Thanks all.

Hi Noah,
The best way of knowing whether the Application pool is down is to monitor it.
Using appcmd, i can check the state of an application under the application pool.
I want to create a schedule task which will check the status of the application pool and in case the application pool is stopped, to send me an email as alerts.
Using Powershell and appcmd, can you guide me on how to do the above i.e I want to use Powershell with appcmd to check for availability of an application pool. If the status is stopped, send me an email as alert.
Thanks.

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We are exploring, as a possible course of action, moving our SharePoint 2007 medium farm to a different Active Directory forest (2008). There is a two way transitive trust between the source and target domains.
I have established that with such a trust it's possible to add content databases on a SQL instance in another forest, so moving content is not a big issue; we'd stand up new instances and move them: the user accounts are almost all in the target domain anyway.
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not be necessary if this has already been done or if the SQL server is not changing domains.
5. Shut down all services on all servers in the farm (this includes SQL if you are moving to the new domain).
6. Change domain membership of all farm servers, reboot or perhaps shutdown and bring back up in the following order:
1. SQL. Verify SQL Server is running and accessible. Check event logs. Resolve any issues.
2. Central Admin server. Verify CA is accessible, check event logs. Web apps and some services may not be available if they are on servers that are currently turned off. Don't worry about these (yet).
3. Application servers, search servers, index, query, other. It's likely some or all of the WFEs will go on at this step. Verify services are accessible as expected. Check event logs. Resolve issues.
4. Any remaining WFEs. Wash, rinse, repeat.
7. Assuming everything is running as expected, users can access the sites, the sky did not fall, etc. take a full farm backup.
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Stop all SP services. Join new domain.
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