Troubleshooting - NetScaler Load Balancing & Packet Drop
Troubleshooting - NetScaler Load Balancing & Packet Drop
Contents
Check VIP Traffic Statistics GUI ............................................................................................................................................... 2
Check VIP and Services using CLI ............................................................................................................................................ 2
Take a Packet Capture............................................................................................................................................................. 4
Basic Packet Capture ........................................................................................................................................................... 4
Traffic capture showing TO and FROM traffic .................................................................................................................... 4
Check License .......................................................................................................................................................................... 5
License expiration ............................................................................................................................................................... 5
Check License Type ............................................................................................................................................................. 6
Check Current Throughput ................................................................................................................................................. 6
SSL Throughput info ............................................................................................................................................................ 8
Check for Packet Drops ........................................................................................................................................................... 8
Troubleshooting - NetScaler Load Balancing
Go to Configuration > Traffic Management > Load Balancing > Virtual Servers
Right click the VIP then choose Statistics.
Virtual Server Summary shows status and health. If Green and UP this is good.
Scroll to the bottom and view Bound Services to see the Service status. This displays the load balanced backend
servers and Service Hits. Service Hits will show real-time traffic.
You can grab the packet capture file and open with Wireshark - Use WinSCP to grab the file.
/var/nstrace/nstrace1.cap
Troubleshooting - NetScaler Load Balancing
Check License
License expiration
Check license file via #Shell cd /nsconfig/license
Is and CAT to the .lic file.
Check the license is Permanent (license should not expire)
Troubleshooting - NetScaler Load Balancing
The example below is running 25MB license so we can see the throughput is nearly maxed out.
Troubleshooting - NetScaler Load Balancing
When deciding on the appropriate NetScaler platform the key resource metric that should be targeted is SSL
throughput. SSL throughput – is the gigabits of SSL traffic that may be processed per second (Gbps).
To determine the SSL throughput required by NetScaler platform multiply the maximum concurrent bandwidth for a
datacenter by 1.02.
Assuming 128Mbps maximum concurrent bandwidth, the appropriate NetScaler model would be:
a. Grab the details about the time stamp when packet drop occurred, this info would be present in the
event link which is attached to the SNOW ticket.
Go to the bottom of the snow ticket you will get the EM7 event link open it at Citrix browser of QS jump
server.
Let’s suppose the drop occurred on July 15, an event must be triggered from NetScaler box for the
knowledge of our monitoring system. Since the event is triggered from Netscaler box itself, so it will have
a logged event for the same in its log files.