citrix netscaler appliance network devices monitoring

What is a Citrix NetScaler MPX Appliance?

The Citrix NetScaler Appliance, now known as Citrix ADC MPX (Citrix Application Delivery Controller), is a specialized hardware-based solution developed by Citrix Systems. It's primarily designed to enhance the delivery of web applications by scaling web traffic, providing network load balancing, and ensuring application availability. The Citrix NetScaler MPX Appliance has multifaceted functionalities in a single, dedicated hardware appliance combining load balancing, content switching, application acceleration, and traffic management tasks. Moreover, its support for a range of protocols and technologies, from HTTP and TCP to SSL VPN and application firewall capabilities, make it a versatile network infrastructure solution.

How to monitor a Citrix NetScaler MPX Appliance?

ServicePilot makes it very easy to monitor a Citrix NetScaler MPX Appliance. Simply configure the SNMP interface of the Citrix NetScaler MPX Appliance. Then use the ServicePilot web interface to add a resource from the ServicePilot network-citrix-netscaler-appliance package.

The statistics gathered in this way include:

• CPU
• Memory
• Network Interfaces (will be automatically discovered)
• vServers (will be automatically discovered)

Here is an example of the possible checkboxes to obtain more or less granularity regarding the indicators collected from the monitored Citrix Netscaler MPX appliance:

1. Options System :

   1. ICMP : Ping status
   2. SystemEnable : system performance statistics
   3. InterfaceEnable : interface details
   4. DiskEnable : disk details
   5. HaEnable : high-availability statistics
   6. AclEnable : ACL statistics ACL
   7. PrbEnable : PRB statistics
   8. AaaEnable : AAA statistics
   9. IPv6Enable : IPv6 statistics
   10. VPNSSLEnable : VPN SSL statistics
   11. NATEnable : NAT statistics
   12. VPNSSLEnable : VPN SSL statistics

2. Options :

   1. AclEnable : ACL statistics
   2. PrbEnable : PRB statistics
   3. FirewallEnable : firewall statistics
   4. VserverEnable : vServers statistics

How to install a citrix-netscaler-appliance resource?

1. Use your ServicePilot OnPremise installation or a SaaS account.
2. Add a new citrix-netscaler-appliance resource via the web interface (/prmviews or /prmresources) or via API (/prmpackages page), the default ServicePilot agent or another agent will be provisioned automatically.

Details of the citrix-netscaler-appliance package are located in the /prmpackages page of the software.

Benefits

ServicePilot enables you to deliver IT services faster and more securely with automated discovery and advanced monitoring features.

By correlating the technology CITRIX NETSCALER APPLIANCE with APM and infrastructure monitoring, ServicePilot is able to provide a more comprehensive view of an organization's IT environment.

This allows IT teams to quickly identify and diagnose issues that may be impacting application performance, and take corrective action before end-users are affected.

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