Citrix NetScaler SDX

Remotely monitor your Citrix NetScaler SDX devices

Extension

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Overview

Citrix NetScaler SDX is a hardware-based Application Delivery Appliance for enterprise and cloud datacenters that allow users to provision and manage multiple virtual NetScaler machines. Dynatrace offers remote monitoring of NetScaler devices via the Citrix NetScaler SDX ActiveGate extension. Our extension queries devices every minute and retrieves key performance data. These metrics are paired with OneAgent and NetScaler ADCs data to provide real-time interaction visualization and the ability to follow transactions throughout your stack.

Use cases

This is intended for users, who:

Would like to monitor the health and status of the NetScaler infrastructue managed by SDX

This enables you to:

Monitor NetScaler infrastructure with a dedicated dashboard and Dynatrace entities to represent core components
Detect and alert on anomalies

Get started

Activate the extension in your environment using the in-product Hub, provide the required authentication configuration. Follow the instructions and prompts within the extension settings.

Host
Username
Password
SSL preferences (Optional)

Details

This extension uses the Netscaler Nitro API to collect important NetScaler component metrics:

fans
temperature
voltage
storage repository
hardware
software

Compatibility information

Citrix NetScaler SDX

13.x
14.x

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Extension content

Content typeNumber of items included

screen layout

generic relationship

screen metric tables

dashboards

metric metadata

generic type

screen entities lists

Feature sets

Below is a complete list of the feature sets provided in this version. To ensure a good fit for your needs, individual feature sets can be activated and deactivated by your administrator during configuration.

Feature setsNumber of metrics included

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Hardware current value	netscaler.xen_health_resource_hw.current_value	Current value of the hardware sensor.	Count
Hardware status	netscaler.xen_health_resource_hw.status	Health status of the resource.	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
IPMI Sensor temperature	netscaler.xen_health_monitor_temp.current_value	Current measurement of the IPMI sensor's temperature.	Count
IPMI temperature sensor status	netscaler.xen_health_monitor_temp.status	Health status of the resource.	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Storage repository size	netscaler.xen_health_sr.size	Physical size of the storage repository.	Count
Storage repository utilization	netscaler.xen_health_sr.utilized	Physical utilization of the storage repository.	Count
Storage repository status	netscaler.xen_health_sr.status	Health status of the resource.	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Fan speed	netscaler.xen_health_monitor_fan_speed.current_value	Current measurement of the fan's speed.	Count
Fan status	netscaler.xen_health_monitor_fan_speed.status	Health status of the resource.	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Software status	netscaler.xen_health_resource_sw.status	Health status of the resource.	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
IPMI Sensor voltage	netscaler.xen_health_monitor_voltage.current_value	Current measurement of the IPMI sensor's voltage.	Count
IPMI voltage sensor status	netscaler.xen_health_monitor_voltage.status	Health status of the resource.	Count

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Fixed a bug where screens for the device would not show any charts.

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Official release of the NetScaler SDX extension. It includes:

12 metrics split into 6 feature sets
2 generic types
1 generic relationship
Overview dahsboard and screens for the above types

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