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Table of ContentsIntroduction 3 Deployment Type 3 DataProfile 3Command Center Hardware Appliance 4Command Center Software 4Points to Note 5 Evaluation vs. Enterprise version 5 Distributed Deployment: 5Database Sizing Guidelines 6 Counters 6 SNMPTraps,Configuration&Others 7 TotalStorageNeeded 7Conclusion 8Appendix 10 Links to Refer 10 Counters 10 Vector Counter Groups (Netscaler) 11 Scalar Counter Groups (Netscaler) 14 Vector Counter Groups (CloudBridge) 24 Scalar Counter Groups (CloudBridge) 25
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Thisdeploymentsizingguidewillhelpyoudecidetherightresource allocation for your Command Center installation. Decidingtherightdeploymentdependsonfollowingfactors:
1.DeploymentType:Ifyouwantaplug&playorself-deployedsolution. 2. Syslog’s: If you are looking for syslog management. 3.VectorSNMPCounters:IfyouarelookingtogetreportsacrossanyofthesecountersforNetScale
ACL Table + CacheRedirectionPolicies+ Interface + System Disks +
ACL6 Table + Content Filters + Policy Engine + VLAN +
AppFirewallProfile+ ContentSwitchpolicies+ Service Groups + Virtual Servers +
CPU Usage + DNSRECORDSTATS+ Services + Virtual Services +
4. Devices: Number of devices you want to manage and monitor
Deployment TypeThefirststepistodecidetypeofdeploymentyouneed.Therearetwotypesofdeploymentavailable–software&hardware.
• Software Deployment - CommandCentersoftwaresolutionshouldbeconsideredwhentheuserwantstomanagetheirowndatabase&operatingsystem.
• Hardware Deployment - CommandCenterHardwaresolutionshouldbedeployedwhentheuserdoesnotwanttomanagetheirowndatabaseoroperatingsystemandwantsaplugandplaysolution.ThehardwaresolutionalwayscomesinHApair.
DataProfileDataprofileencompassesthenexttwofactorsofdeploymentconsideration–Syslog’s&Counters.SelectionoftherightdataprofilewilldependonthekindoffeaturesyouarelookingtoenableonyourCommand Center Deployment. You will need to enable Syslog collection, if you want NetScaler AppFirewall™ Reports, NetScaler Gateway™ Reports or complete NetScaler® logging information. WhereasforVectorSNMPcounters,youcanenablespecificcountergroupsasneeded.Syslog&VectorSNMPcountersarethemostdataguzzlingsources.Thedataprofilescanbesegregatedintotwotypes:
• BasicDataProfile - Thisdataprofilewillhaveallthebasicdefaultdataenabled.ItwillhavedefaultScalarSNMPcounters and SNMP Traps enabled only.
• AdvanceDataProfile - Thisdataprofilewillhaveallthebasicdefaultdataalongwithafeworallthedataguzzlingsourcesenabled.ItwillhavedefaultScalarSNMPcounters,SNMPTraps,Syslog’sandVectorCounters enabled too.
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Now,furthersectionsshouldbeselectedbasedontheselectionofdeploymenttypeanddataprofiles.
Command Center Hardware ApplianceTheHardwareversionisaplugandplaysolution.TheOperatingSystem,DatabaseandtheCommandCenterSoftwareareallpackagedtogetherinthehardwaresolution.Herearethetechnicaldetailsofthehardwareappliance:
• OperatingSystem-CentOS5.564-bit• Database-MySQL5.1.48,32bit• Hypervisor-XenServer® • HardDisk–500GB
ItalwayscomesinHigh-Availabilitypair.WithHAdeploymentcoupledwithDatabaseoverboththenodes,italsoprovidesdatareplicationsupportacrosstheprimary/secondarynodes.
Recommended MAXIMUM number of Devices to be managed per installation – 250 Devices
Command Center Software TheSoftwareversionwillneedtobeinstalledonasupportedoperatingsystem&willneedtobeassociatedtoadatabase.BelowarethesizingrecommendationsacrossLinuxandWindowsOperatingSystem.
RecommendedMAXIMUMnumberofDevicestobemanagedperinstallation
• Linux– - BasicDataProfile:100Devices - AdvanceDataProfile:60Devices
• Windows– - BasicDataProfile:80Devices - AdvanceDataProfile:40Devices
Note:ObservedDataRatefortheserecommendationareasfollows:
• SNMPTrapsperDevice–10traps/secondperdevice• SyslogperDevice–10Syslog’s/secondperdevice
- Recommended Resource AllocationRAM(CommandCenter&DBinstall)–8GB vCPU(CommandCenter&DBinstall)–4
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- SupportedOperatingSystemCentOS6.532bit, CentOS6.232bit&64bit CentOS5.132bit Microsoft® Windows® 2012 and 2012 R2 Microsoft® Windows® 2008 and 2008 R2 Microsoft® Windows® 2003 Service Pack 2 Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 and 6.5 32 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 6.2 32 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4.0 and 5.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4.0
- Supported DatabaseMSSQL2012 MySQL5.6 MySQL5.1.xwithInnoDBstorageengine MicrosoftSQLServer2005/2008/2008R2 OracleDatabaseServer10g/11g
Points To NoteThesizingguidelinesinthissectionwillhelptheCommandCenterSoftwareadministratorsdecidehowmuchdatabasestoragetoallocateandforCommandCenterHardwareadministratorshowmuchdatacollection to enable for optimum scalability. Here are few facts to know before getting started.
Evaluation Vs. Enterprise VersionWhenyouinstallCommandCenterSoftware,you’llbepromptedwithEvaluationversusEnterpriseDeployment.Belowarethedetailsastowhenshouldtheseversionsbeconsidered:
• Evaluation:Evaluationversionletsyoudeploycommandcenterwithoutneedinganexternaldatabaseinstallation.IthasaPostgreSQLinstallpackagedinit.ItisimportanttonotethatEvaluation version is not recommended for Production Deployment as it will not scale well to manageproductiondeployments.ThisshouldonlybeusedforevaluationofCommandCenter.
• Enterprise:TodeployEnterpriseversionyouwillneedtohaveanexternaldatabaselinkedtoCommandCenter.ItisrecommendedtohavetheEnterpriseversioninstalledforProductionDeploymentsforhigherscalability.
Distributed Deployment:Factorstoconsiderfordistributeddeployment,whereoneCommandCenterismanagingdevicesdeployedindifferentgeographicallocations.
• Time zone - AllthedevicesbeingmanagedbyCommandCenterandtheCommandCenterdeployment,shouldbeNTPsynced.
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• WAN Latency - IfCommandCenterismanagingdeviceslocatedindifferentGeographicallocations,theadministratorwillhavetobemindfuloftheacceptablerangeofWANLatencyacrossthelocations.
- Itisrecommendedtohavelessthan500msastheWANlatencybetweenCommandCenterandthedevicesbeingmanaged.
Database Sizing GuidelinesThedatabaseestimationguidelinesdependson4datasources.
1. Counters• SNMP Scalar Counters (default)• SNMP Vector Counters
2. Syslog’s 3. SNMP Traps (default) 4.Configuration&Others
Outofthesefouronlythefirstandsecondaffectthedatabasestoragethemost.
Basedonwhatisenabledthedatabaseestimatewillvary.Let’slookintodatabaseestimatecalculationwithSNMPcountersandsyslog’senabled.
CountersWhat are scalar & vector counters?
Scalarcountersaresingularinnature.Whenoneofthescalarcountersarepolled,onlyonevaluewillbereturnedperdevice.Whereas,whenvectorcountersarepolled,multiplevaluesarereturnedperdevice.Forinstance,ifone“vserverhits”counterispolled,oneNetScalerdevicewillreturnstatisticsacrossallthevserversconfiguredonthatoneNetScaler.
Hereisalinkonhowtoenabledcounters-http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/command-center-41/cc-perf-report-pold-cntrs-tsk.html#cc-perf-report-pold-cntrs-tsk
RefertoCountersectionunderAppendixtounderstandthecounterdetails.
Refer to Appendixtounderstandwhichonesarevectorandscalarcountersfromthecompletelist.
Note:Thepollingintervaliskeptas300sec(default)foralltheSNMPcounterspecificreferencesinthisguide.
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SNMPTraps,Configuration&OthersThisguidehasconsidered20GBasthestoragespaceneededforSNMPTraps,configurationandotherfunctionality.FollowingmethodscanbetakenifcertainSNMPtrapsneedstobesuppressedorconfigurationarchivesettingsneedtobechanged.
Purging Unwanted Snmp Traps
Select“SuppressAction”asaTriggertosuppresscertainSNMPtrapstopopulateyourEvents/Alarmsdashboard http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/command-center-52/cc-mon-mng-events-conf-evnt-alarm-trgrs-tsk.html
Configuration Archive Settings:
Editthe“ArchiveInterval”&“Numberofpreviousarchivefilestoretain”asneeded. http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/command-center-52/cc-admin-conf-invntry-settng-4-0-tsk.html
Total storage neededThissectionwillthrowsomelightonhowthestoragesizecalculationcanbedonebasedontypeofsource enabled.
Scalar Counters Value Calculation FormulaTotal Scalar Counters on Command Center 431 NA
DB Storage per Counter (MB) 0.5 NA
Total DB Storage taken by Scalar Counters (GB)
0.2 = (431 * 0.5)/1024 (Total Scalar Counters across ALL devices * DB Storage per Counter)/1024
Vector Counters Value Calculation FormulaType of Vector Counter Group Enabled Vservers NA
No.ofCountersintheCounterGroupEnabled 8 NA
Total Vservers per Device 15 NA
Total Vector Counters per Device 120 = 15*8 Total Vservers per Device *No. of CountersintheCounterGroupEnabled
DB Storage per Counter (MB) 0.5 NA
Total DB Storage taken by Vector Counters (GB)
0.1 = (120 * 0.5)/1024 (Total Vector Counters per device * DB Storage per Counter)/1024
Others Value Calculation FormulaDB Storage Required for Other Functionality of CC (GB)
20 NA NA
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Syslogs Value Calculation FormulaStorage taken by one syslog message (MB) 0.0026
Syslog’s per second rate (per NetScaler) 1
Syslogs accumulated over a day 86400 = 1*60*60*24 Syslog’s per second rate (per NetScaler) * No. seconds in minutes*No.ofminutesinhour*No.ofhoursinaday
Syslog purge Interval (N) 15
Total Number of Syslogs accumulated over N Days
1296000 = 86,400 *15 Syslogs accumulated over a day * Syslog purge Interval (N)
Total Space taken by Syslogs (GB) 3.3 = (1296000*.0026)/1024
(Total Number of Syslogs accumulated over N Days * Storage taken by one syslog message (MB))/1024
ConclusionThestorageallocationdependsonwhichsourceofdataisenabled,thedatasentrateandforhowlongthedataismaintained.Basedonhowmuchdatabasestoragecanbeallocated,thedatasourcesshouldbeenabled,disabledorpurgedattherightintervalforoptimumscalabilityofthecommandcenterdeployment.Basedonyourrequirement,youwillneedtopickuptherightdataprofiletodecidetherightstorageallocation.
Basic Data ProfileTotal Database Needed per device (GB) 20.2 = 0.2 +20 Total DB Storage taken by Scalar
Counters (GB)+DB Storage RequiredforOtherFunctionalityof CC (GB)
Total storage for 50 Devices (GB) 30 = 0.2*50 + 20 Total DB Storage taken by Scalar Counters (GB) * 50 + DB Storage RequiredforOtherFunctionalityof CC (GB)
Total storage for 100 Devices (GB) 40 = 0.2*100 + 20 Total DB Storage taken by Scalar Counters (GB) * 100 + DB Storage RequiredforOtherFunctionalityof CC (GB)
Total storage for 200 Devices (GB) 60 = 0.2*200 + 20 Total DB Storage taken by Scalar Counters (GB) * 200 + DB Storage RequiredforOtherFunctionalityof CC (GB)
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Advance Data Profile (Vector Counters + Scalar Counters)Total Database Needed per device (GB) 20.3 = 0.2 + 0.1 +20 Total DB Storage taken by Scalar
Counters (GB) + Total DB Storage taken by Vector Counters (GB) + DBStorageRequiredforOtherFunctionality of CC (GB)
Total storage for 50 Devices (GB) 35 = (0.2 + 0.1)* 50 + 20 [Total DB Storage taken by Scalar Counters (GB) + Total DB Storage taken by Vector Counters (GB)]*50 +DBStorageRequiredforOtherFunctionality of CC (GB)
Total storage for 100 Devices (GB) 50 = (0.2 + 0.1) * 100 + 20 [Total DB Storage taken by Scalar Counters (GB) + Total DB Storage taken by Vector Counters (GB)]*100 + DB Storage Required forOtherFunctionalityofCC(GB)
Total storage for 200 Devices (GB) 80 = (0.2 + 0.1) * 200 + 20 [Total DB Storage taken by Scalar Counters (GB) + Total DB Storage taken by Vector Counters (GB)]*200 + DB Storage Required forOtherFunctionalityofCC(GB)
Advance Data Profile (Syslog’s + Vector Counters + Scalar Counters)Total Database Needed per device (GB) 23.5 = 0.2 + 0.1 + 3.3 +20 Total DB Storage taken by Scalar
Counters (GB) + Total DB Storage taken by Vector Counters (GB) + Total Space taken by Syslogs (GB) +DBStorageRequiredforOtherFunctionality of CC (GB)
Total storage for 50 Devices (GB) 200 = (0.2 + 0.1 + 3.3)* 50 + 20 [Total DB Storage taken by Scalar Counters (GB) + Total DB Storage taken by Vector Counters (GB) + Total Space taken by Syslogs (GB)]*50 + DB Storage Required for OtherFunctionalityofCC(GB)
Total storage for 100 Devices (GB) 380 = (0.2 + 0.1 + 3.3) * 100 + 20 [Total DB Storage taken by Scalar Counters (GB) + Total DB Storage taken by Vector Counters (GB) + Total Space taken by Syslogs (GB)]*100 + DB Storage Required forOtherFunctionalityofCC(GB)
Total storage for 200 Devices (GB) 740 = (0.2 + 0.1 + 3.3) * 200 + 20 [Total DB Storage taken by Scalar Counters (GB) + Total DB Storage taken by Vector Counters (GB) + Total Space taken by Syslogs (GB)]*200 + DB Storage Required forOtherFunctionalityofCC(GB)
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AppendixLinks To ReferHereisalinkonhowtoenabledcounters http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/command-center-41/cc-perf-report-pold-cntrs-tsk.html#cc-perf-report-pold-cntrs-tsk
Linktowhatthesecountersmean http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/command-center-51/cc-ns-snmp-counters-wrapper-con.html
To edit Syslog purge interval on Command Center, go to: http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/command-center-52/cc-admin-conf-servr-settng-4-0-tsk.html
Purging unwanted SNMP Traps http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/command-center-52/cc-mon-mng-events-conf-evnt-alarm-trgrs-tsk.html
ConfigurationArchiveSettings: http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/command-center-52/cc-admin-conf-invntry-settng-4-0-tsk.html
CountersYoucanaccessdetailedinformationofallthecountersunderthedownloadsectionoftheCommandCenterGUIasshownbelow.ThiswillgivedetailedinformationoftheassociationbetweenNetScaler/CloudBridge&CommandCenterrepresentationsofSNMPtraps.
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Vector Counter Groups (Netscaler)
S_No. Vector Counter Group Counters
1 ACL Table + Acl Hits
2 ACL Table + Acl Priority
3 ACL6 Table + Acl6 Hits
4 ACL6 Table + Acl6 Priority
5 AppFirewallProfile+ BufferOverflowViolationsPerProfile
6 AppFirewallProfile+ CSRForgeryFormtagViolationsPerProfile
7 AppFirewallProfile+ CookieViolationsPerProfile
8 AppFirewallProfile+ CreditCardViolationsPerProfile
9 AppFirewallProfile+ Cross-siteScriptingViolationsPerProfile
10 AppFirewallProfile+ DenyURLViolationsPerProfile
11 AppFirewallProfile+ FieldConsistencyViolationsPerProfile
12 AppFirewallProfile+ FieldFormatViolationsPerProfile
13 AppFirewallProfile+ HTTP4xxRequestsPerProfile
14 AppFirewallProfile+ HTTP5xxRequestsPerProfile
15 AppFirewallProfile+ LongResponseTime(ms)PerProfile
16 AppFirewallProfile+ RefererHeaderViolationsPerProfile
17 AppFirewallProfile+ RequestBytesPerProfile
18 AppFirewallProfile+ RequestsAbortedPerProfile
19 AppFirewallProfile+ RequestsReceivedPerProfile
20 AppFirewallProfile+ RequestsRedirected(HTTP302)PerProfile
21 AppFirewallProfile+ ResponseBytesPerProfile
22 AppFirewallProfile+ ResponsesHandledPerProfile
23 AppFirewallProfile+ SOAPFaultViolationsPerProfile
24 AppFirewallProfile+ SQLViolationsPerProfile
25 AppFirewallProfile+ SafeObjectViolationsPerProfile
26 AppFirewallProfile+ ShortResponseTime(ms)PerProfile
27 AppFirewallProfile+ StartURLViolationsPerProfile
28 AppFirewallProfile+ TotalNumberofViolationsPerProfile
29 AppFirewallProfile+ WSIViolationsPerProfile
30 AppFirewallProfile+ XMLAttachmentViolationsPerProfile
31 AppFirewallProfile+ XMLDOSViolationsPerProfile
32 AppFirewallProfile+ XMLFormatViolationsPerProfile
33 AppFirewallProfile+ XMLMessageValidationViolationsPerProfile
34 AppFirewallProfile+ XMLSQLInjectionViolationsPerProfile
35 AppFirewallProfile+ XMLXSSViolationsPerProfile
36 CPU Usage + CPU Usage(Percentage)
37 CacheRedirectionPolicies+ Policy Hits
38 Content Filters + Content Filter Hits
39 ContentSwitchpolicies+ Contentswitchpolicyhits
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40 DNSRECORDSTATS+ DNS Server responses
41 DNSRECORDSTATS+ DNS queries received
42 DNSRECORDSTATS+ DNS record entries
43 Interface + Linkhangerrors
44 Interface + RxAveragebandwidth(bits/sec)
45 Interface + Rx Average packet rate
46 Interface + Rx CRC errors
47 Interface + Rx Frame errors
48 Interface + Rx alignment errors
49 Interface + TxAveragebandwidth(bits/sec)
50 Interface + Tx Average packet rate
51 Interface + Tx Carrier errors
52 Interface + Tx collisions
53 Interface + Tx excess collisions
54 Interface + Tx late collisions
55 Interface + Tx multiple collision errors
56 Policy Engine + Policy bytes in
57 Policy Engine + Policy bytes out
58 Policy Engine + Policyhits
59 Service Groups + Average TTFB
60 Service Groups + Establishedactiveconnections
61 Service Groups + Establishedconnections
62 Service Groups + Genuineclientsonthisservice
63 Service Groups + Javascript sent to genuine clients
64 Service Groups + Request rate
65 Service Groups + Request rate bytes
66 Service Groups + Response rate bytes
67 Service Groups + Service Group Current client connections
68 Service Groups + Service Group Request bytes
69 Service Groups + Service Group Response bytes
70 Service Groups + Surge queue requests
71 Service Groups + Unacknowledged SYNs rate
72 Services + Active connections
73 Services + Active transactions
74 Services + Establishedconnections
75 Services + Genuineclientsonthisservice
76 Services + Javascripts sent to genuine clients
77 Services + Maximum open connections
78 Services + Service Average TTFB
79 Services + Service Current client connections
80 Services + Service average transaction time
81 Services + Serviceestablishedclientconnections
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82 Services + Serviceestablishedserverconnections
83 Services + Service maximum requests per connection
84 Services + Service packets received
85 Services + Service packets sent
86 Services + Service request bytes
87 Services + Service requests
88 Services + Service response Bytes
89 Services + Service responses
90 Services + Service syns received
91 Services + Service type
92 Services + Surge count
93 System Disks + Available disk space (MB)
94 System Disks + Percentage of disk space used (%)
95 System Disks + Total disk space (MB)
96 System Disks + Used disk space (MB)
97 SystemHealth+ Healthcounter
98 VLAN + Broadcast pkts sent and received
99 VLAN + Bytes received
100 VLAN + Bytes sent
101 VLAN + Packets dropped
102 VLAN + VLAN packets received
103 VLAN + VLAN packets sent
104 Virtual Servers + Current server connections
105 Virtual Servers + Current server connections(Diff)
106 Virtual Servers + Number of services
107 Virtual Servers + Number of spill overs
108 Virtual Servers + Number of spill overs(Diff)
109 Virtual Servers + Number of ssl users
110 Virtual Servers + Requests bytes
111 Virtual Servers + Requests bytes(Actual)
112 Virtual Servers + Requests bytes(Diff)
113 Virtual Servers + Total Vserver Misses
114 Virtual Servers + UP services (%)
115 Virtual Servers + VserverEstablishedclientconnections
116 Virtual Servers + VserverEstablishedclientconnections(Diff)
117 Virtual Servers + Vserver Hits
118 Virtual Servers + Vserver Hits(Actual)
119 Virtual Servers + Vserver Hits(Diff)
120 Virtual Servers + Vserver client connection open rate
121 Virtual Servers + Vserver current client connections
122 Virtual Servers + Vserver current client connections(Diff)
123 Virtual Servers + Vserver packets received
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124 Virtual Servers + Vserver packets received(Diff)
125 Virtual Servers + Vserver packets sent
126 Virtual Servers + Vserver packets sent(Diff)
127 Virtual Servers + Vserver requests
128 Virtual Servers + Vserver requests(Actual)
129 Virtual Servers + Vserver response bytes
130 Virtual Servers + Vserver response bytes(Actual)
131 Virtual Servers + Vserver response bytes(Diff)
132 Virtual Servers + Vserver responses
133 Virtual Servers + Vserver responses(Actual)
134 Virtual Servers + Vserver syns received
135 Virtual Servers + Vserver type
136 Virtual Services + Service Hits
137 Virtual Services + Service Persistent Hits
138 Virtual Services + ServiceWeight
Scalar Counter Groups (Netscaler)
S_No. Counter Group Name Counters
1 AAA AAA sessions
2 AAA Authenticationfailures
3 AAA Authenticationsuccessratio
4 AAA Authenticationsuccesses
5 AAA Current AAA sessions
6 AAA Current ICA sessions
7 AAA HTTPauthorizationfailures
8 AAA HTTPauthorizationsuccessratio
9 AAA HTTPauthorizationsuccesses
10 AAA NonHTTPauthorizationfailures
11 AAA NonHTTPauthorizationsuccesses
12 AAA NonHttpauthorizationsuccessratio
13 AAA Timed out AAA sessions
14 ACL AllowACLhits
15 ACL BridgeACLhits
16 ACL DenyACLhits
17 ACL NATACLhits
18 ACL6 ACL6hits
19 ACL6 ACL6 misses
20 ACL6 AllowACL6hits
21 ACL6 BridgeACL6hits
22 ACL6 DenyACL6hits
23 ACL6 NATACL6hits
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24 App Firewall BufferOverflowViolations
25 App Firewall Cookie Violations
26 App Firewall Credit Card Violations
27 App Firewall Cross-siteScriptingViolations
28 App Firewall Deny URL Violations
29 App Firewall Field Consistency Violations
30 App Firewall HTTP 4xx Requests
31 App Firewall HTTP 5xx Requests
32 App Firewall Long Response Time(ms)
33 App Firewall Referer Header Violations
34 App Firewall Request Bytes
35 App Firewall Requests Aborted
36 App Firewall Requests Received
37 App Firewall Requests Redirected (HTTP 302)
38 App Firewall Response Bytes
39 App Firewall Responses Handled
40 App Firewall SOAPFaultViolations
41 App Firewall SQLViolations
42 App Firewall SafeObjectViolations
43 App Firewall ShortResponseTime(ms)
44 App Firewall Start URL Violations
45 App Firewall Total Number of Violations
46 App Firewall WSI Violations
47 App Firewall XMLAttachmentViolations
48 App Firewall XMLDOSViolations
49 App Firewall XMLFormatViolations
50 App Firewall XMLMessageValidationViolations
51 App Firewall XMLSQLInjectionViolations
52 App Firewall XMLXSSViolations
53 App Firewall appFirewallViolCSRFtag
54 App Firewall fieldformatViolations
55 Compression Compressed packets transmitted
56 Compression Compressible bytes received
57 Compression Compressible packets received
58 Compression HTTP bytes compressed
59 Compression HTTP compression ratio
60 Compression HTTP compression requests
61 Compression HTTP compression success ratio
62 DNS DNS queries
63 DNS DNS requests refused
64 DNS DNS responses
65 DNS Othererrors
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66 DNS Queriesauthoritativelyanswered
67 DNS Querieswhichwereauthoritativelyansweredwithnodata
68 DNS Querieswhichwerenon-authoritativelyanswered
69 DNS Querieswhichwerenon-authoritativelyansweredwithnodata
70 DNS Unsupported record type
71 DNS authoritativenosuchname'responses
72 GSLB Custom Entries
73 GSLB Static Entries
74 HTTP Chunkedrequests
75 HTTP Chunkedrequests/responses
76 HTTP Contentlengthrequests
77 HTTP Contentlengthresponses
78 HTTP HTTP GET requests received
79 HTTP HTTPPOSTrequestsreceived
80 HTTP HTTP request bytes received
81 HTTP HTTP requests received
82 HTTP HTTP response bytes received
83 HTTP HTTP responses received
84 HTTP HTTP/1.0requestsreceived
85 HTTP HTTP/1.0responsesreceived
86 HTTP HTTP/1.1pipelinerequests
87 HTTP IncompleteHTTPheaders
88 HTTP Incompleterequestheaders
89 HTTP Incompleteresponseheaders
90 HTTP Large/invalidchunkrequests
91 HTTP Large/invalidrequests
92 HTTP Morethancontentlengthdata
93 HTTP Non-GET/POSTmethodsreceived
94 HTTP Request bytes transmitted
95 HTTP Response bytes transmitted
96 HTTP Server BUSY responses (500)
97 ICMP ICMP bytes received
98 ICMP ICMP bytes transmitted
99 ICMP ICMPechorepliesreceived
100 ICMP ICMPechorepliestransmitted
101 ICMP ICMPechosreceived
102 ICMP ICMP packets dropped
103 ICMP ICMP packets received
104 ICMP ICMP packets transmitted
105 ICMP ICMPratethreshold
106 ICMP ICMPratethresholdexceeded
107 ICache 304hitratio(Percentage)
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108 ICache 304hits
109 ICache Bytehitratio(Percentage)
110 ICache Bytes served by NetScaler
111 ICache Bytesservedbycache
112 ICache Cachedobjects
113 ICache Compressedbytesfromcache
114 ICache Conversions to conditional req
115 ICache Expire at last byte
116 ICache Flashcachehits
117 ICache Flashcachemisses
118 ICache Full inval requests
119 ICache Hit ratio(Percentage)
120 ICache Hits being served
121 ICache ICachehits
122 ICache ICacherequests
123 ICache Inval requests
124 ICache Largest response so far(B)
125 ICache Maximum memory(KB)
126 ICache Memory allocation failures
127 ICache Misses
128 ICache Missesbeinghandled
129 ICache Non-304hits
130 ICache Non-storablemisses
131 ICache Originbandwidthsaved(Percentage)
132 ICache Parameterized304hitratio(Percentage)
133 ICache Parameterized304hits
134 ICache Parameterized inval requests
135 ICache Parameterizednon-304hits
136 ICache Parameterized requests
137 ICache Polleverytimehitratio(Percentage)
138 ICache Polleverytimehits
139 ICache Poll every time requests
140 ICache Recent304hitratio(Percentage)
141 ICache Recentbytehitratio(Percentage)
142 ICache Recenthitratio(Percentage)
143 ICache Recentoriginbandwidthsaved(Percentage)
144 ICache Recentparameterized304hitratio(Percentage)
145 ICache Recent storable miss ratio(Percentage)
146 ICache Recent successful reval ratio(Percentage)
147 ICache Revalidations
148 ICache Storable miss ratio(Percentage)
149 ICache Storable misses
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150 ICache Successful reval ratio(Percentage)
151 ICache Successful revalidations
152 ICache Totalparameterizedhits
153 ICache Utilized memory(KB)
154 IP IP bytes received
155 IP IP bytes transmitted
156 IP IP fragments received
157 IP IP packets received
158 IP IP packets transmitted
159 IP Megabits received
160 IP Megabits transmitted
161 IP PacketswithbadMACsent
162 IP Packetswithlen>1514rcvd
163 IP Unknown services
164 IP land-attacks
165 IP maxnon-TCPclients
166 IPV6 ICMPv6 fragmented packets
167 IPV6 IPv6 bytes received
168 IPV6 IPv6 bytes transmitted
169 IPV6 IPv6 dynamic routes
170 IPV6 IPv6 fragments forwarded
171 IPV6 IPv6 fragments processed
172 IPV6 IPv6 fragments received
173 IPV6 IPv6headererrors
174 IPV6 IPv6 land attack
175 IPV6 IPv6 packets received
176 IPV6 IPv6 packets transmitted
177 IPV6 IPv6packetswithzeropacketlength
178 IPV6 IPv6 static routes
179 IPV6 nd6 lookup
180 IPV6 nd6 lookup failed
181 IPV6 nd6 total routes
182 IPV6 v4 to v6 conversion
183 IPV6 v6 Non TCP connection
184 IPV6 v6 TCP connection
185 IPV6 v6 to v4 conversion
186 NIC Megabits Received
187 NIC Megabits Transmitted
188 Resources CPU Usage(Percentage)
189 Resources Memory Usage(Percentage)
190 SSL Backend3DES168-bitencryptions
191 SSL BackendDES40-bitencryptions
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192 SSL BackendDES56-bitencryptions
193 SSL BackendDH1024-bitkeyexchanges
194 SSL BackendDH2048-bitkeyexchanges
195 SSL BackendDH512-bitkeyexchanges
196 SSL BackendDHauthentications
197 SSL BackendDSSauthentications
198 SSL BackendIDEA128-bitencryptions
199 SSL BackendMD5hashes
200 SSL BackendRC2128-bitencryptions
201 SSL BackendRC240-bitencryptions
202 SSL BackendRC256-bitencryptions
203 SSL BackendRC4128-bitencryptions
204 SSL BackendRC440-bitencryptions
205 SSL BackendRC456-bitencryptions
206 SSL BackendRC464-bitencryptions
207 SSL BackendRSA1024-bitkeyexchanges
208 SSL BackendRSA2048-bitkeyexchanges
209 SSL BackendRSA512-bitkeyexchanges
210 SSL BackendRSAauthentications
211 SSL BackendSHAhashes
212 SSL Backend SSL multiplex failures
213 SSL Backend SSL sessions
214 SSL Backend SSL sessions reused
215 SSL BackendSSLv3clientauthentications
216 SSL BackendSSLv3handshakes
217 SSL Backend SSLv3 sessions
218 SSL BackendTLSv1clientauthentications
219 SSL BackendTLSv1handshakes
220 SSL Backend TLSv1 sessions
221 SSL Backend export sessions
222 SSL Backendnullauthentications
223 SSL Backend null encryptions
224 SSL Backend session multiplex attempts
225 SSL Backend session multiplex successes
226 SSL Current SSL sessions
227 SSL DES168-bitencryptions
228 SSL DES40-bitencryptions
229 SSL DES56-bitencryptions
230 SSL DESencryptionsoffloaded
231 SSL DH1024-bitkeyexchanges
232 SSL DH2048-bitkeyexchanges
233 SSL DH512-bitkeyexchanges
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234 SSL DHauthentications
235 SSL DHkeyexchangesoffloaded
236 SSL DSS(DSA)authentications
237 SSL Exportsessions(40-bit)
238 SSL IDEA128-bitencryptions
239 SSL MD5hashes
240 SSL New SSL sessions
241 SSL Nullauthentications
242 SSL Nullcipherencryptions
243 SSL RC2128-bitencryptions
244 SSL RC240-bitencryptions
245 SSL RC256-bitencryptions
246 SSL RC4128-bitencryptions
247 SSL RC440-bitencryptions
248 SSL RC456-bitencryptions
249 SSL RC464-bitencryptions
250 SSL RSA1024-bitkeyexchanges
251 SSL RSA2048-bitkeyexchanges
252 SSL RSA512-bitkeyexchanges
253 SSL RSAauthentications
254 SSL RSAkeyexchangesoffloaded
255 SSL RSAsignoperationsoffloaded
256 SSL SHAhashes
257 SSL SSL Crypto card status
258 SSL SSL Engine status
259 SSL SSLsessionhits
260 SSL SSL session misses
261 SSL SSL sessions
262 SSL SSL sessions per second
263 SSL SSL transactions
264 SSL SSLv2SSLhandshakes
265 SSL SSLv2clientauthentications
266 SSL SSLv2 sessions
267 SSL SSLv2 transactions
268 SSL SSLv3SSLhandshakes
269 SSL SSLv3clientauthentications
270 SSL SSLv3 session renegotiations
271 SSL SSLv3 sessions
272 SSL SSLv3 transactions
273 SSL TLSv1SSLhandshakes
274 SSL TLSv1clientauthentications
275 SSL TLSv1 session renegotiations
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276 SSL TLSv1 sessions
277 SSL TLSv1 transactions
278 SSL Total SSL Session Renegotiations
279 SSL(cumulative) Backend3DES168-bitencryptions(Actual)
280 SSL(cumulative) BackendDES40-bitencryptions(Actual)
281 SSL(cumulative) BackendDES56-bitencryptions(Actual)
282 SSL(cumulative) BackendDH1024-bitkeyexchanges(Actual)
283 SSL(cumulative) BackendDH2048-bitkeyexchanges(Actual)
284 SSL(cumulative) BackendDH512-bitkeyexchanges(Actual)
285 SSL(cumulative) BackendDHauthentications(Actual)
286 SSL(cumulative) BackendDSSauthentications(Actual)
287 SSL(cumulative) BackendIDEA128-bitencryptions(Actual)
288 SSL(cumulative) BackendMD5hashes(Actual)
289 SSL(cumulative) BackendRC2128-bitencryptions(Actual)
290 SSL(cumulative) BackendRC240-bitencryptions(Actual)
291 SSL(cumulative) BackendRC256-bitencryptions(Actual)
292 SSL(cumulative) BackendRC4128-bitencryptions(Actual)
293 SSL(cumulative) BackendRC440-bitencryptions(Actual)
294 SSL(cumulative) BackendRC456-bitencryptions(Actual)
295 SSL(cumulative) BackendRC464-bitencryptions(Actual)
296 SSL(cumulative) BackendRSA1024-bitkeyexchanges(Actual)
297 SSL(cumulative) BackendRSA2048-bitkeyexchanges(Actual)
298 SSL(cumulative) BackendRSA512-bitkeyexchanges(Actual)
299 SSL(cumulative) BackendRSAauthentications(Actual)
300 SSL(cumulative) BackendSHAhashes(Actual)
301 SSL(cumulative) Backend SSL multiplex failures(Actual)
302 SSL(cumulative) Backend SSL sessions reused(Actual)
303 SSL(cumulative) Backend SSL sessions(Actual)
304 SSL(cumulative) BackendSSLv3clientauthentications(Actual)
305 SSL(cumulative) BackendSSLv3handshakes(Actual)
306 SSL(cumulative) Backend SSLv3 sessions(Actual)
307 SSL(cumulative) BackendTLSv1clientauthentications(Actual)
308 SSL(cumulative) BackendTLSv1handshakes(Actual)
309 SSL(cumulative) Backend TLSv1 sessions(Actual)
310 SSL(cumulative) Backendnullauthentications(Actual)
311 SSL(cumulative) Backend null encryptions(Actual)
312 SSL(cumulative) Backend session multiplex attempts(Actual)
313 SSL(cumulative) Backend session multiplex successes(Actual)
314 SSL(cumulative) DES168-bitencryptions(Actual)
315 SSL(cumulative) DES40-bitencryptions(Actual)
316 SSL(cumulative) DES56-bitencryptions(Actual)
317 SSL(cumulative) DESencryptionsoffloaded(Actual)
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318 SSL(cumulative) DH1024-bitkeyexchanges(Actual)
319 SSL(cumulative) DH2048-bitkeyexchanges(Actual)
320 SSL(cumulative) DH512-bitkeyexchanges(Actual)
321 SSL(cumulative) DHauthentications(Actual)
322 SSL(cumulative) DHkeyexchangesoffloaded(Actual)
323 SSL(cumulative) DSS(DSA)authentications(Actual)
324 SSL(cumulative) IDEA128-bitencryptions(Actual)
325 SSL(cumulative) MD5hashes(Actual)
326 SSL(cumulative) New SSL sessions(Actual)
327 SSL(cumulative) Nullauthentications(Actual)
328 SSL(cumulative) Nullcipherencryptions(Actual)
329 SSL(cumulative) RC2128-bitencryptions(Actual)
330 SSL(cumulative) RC240-bitencryptions(Actual)
331 SSL(cumulative) RC256-bitencryptions(Actual)
332 SSL(cumulative) RC4128-bitencryptions(Actual)
333 SSL(cumulative) RC440-bitencryptions(Actual)
334 SSL(cumulative) RC456-bitencryptions(Actual)
335 SSL(cumulative) RC464-bitencryptions(Actual)
336 SSL(cumulative) RSA1024-bitkeyexchanges(Actual)
337 SSL(cumulative) RSA2048-bitkeyexchanges(Actual)
338 SSL(cumulative) RSA512-bitkeyexchanges(Actual)
339 SSL(cumulative) RSAauthentications(Actual)
340 SSL(cumulative) RSAkeyexchangesoffloaded(Actual)
341 SSL(cumulative) RSAsignoperationsoffloaded(Actual)
342 SSL(cumulative) SHAhashes(Actual)
343 SSL(cumulative) SSLsessionhits(Actual)
344 SSL(cumulative) SSL session misses(Actual)
345 SSL(cumulative) SSL sessions per second(Actual)
346 SSL(cumulative) SSL sessions(Actual)
347 SSL(cumulative) SSL transactions(Actual)
348 SSL(cumulative) SSLv2SSLhandshakes(Actual)
349 SSL(cumulative) SSLv2clientauthentications(Actual)
350 SSL(cumulative) SSLv2 sessions(Actual)
351 SSL(cumulative) SSLv2 transactions(Actual)
352 SSL(cumulative) SSLv3SSLhandshakes(Actual)
353 SSL(cumulative) SSLv3clientauthentications(Actual)
354 SSL(cumulative) SSLv3 session renegotiations(Actual)
355 SSL(cumulative) SSLv3 sessions(Actual)
356 SSL(cumulative) SSLv3 transactions(Actual)
357 SSL(cumulative) TLSv1SSLhandshakes(Actual)
358 SSL(cumulative) TLSv1clientauthentications(Actual)
359 SSL(cumulative) TLSv1 session renegotiations(Actual)
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360 SSL(cumulative) TLSv1 sessions(Actual)
361 SSL(cumulative) TLSv1 transactions(Actual)
362 SSL(cumulative) Total SSL Session Renegotiations(Actual)
363 Simple ACL AllowSimpleACLhits
364 Simple ACL BridgeSimpleACLhits
365 Simple ACL DenySimpleACLhits
366 Simple ACL SimpleACLhits
367 Simple ACL Simple ACL misses
368 Sure Connect Alternatecontenthits
369 Sure Connect Corrupted SureConnect cookies
370 Sure Connect Delay stats reset
371 Sure Connect In-memorypop-upscreenhits
372 Sure Connect POSTrequests
373 Sure Connect Requests from unsupported browsers
374 Sure Connect Requests in SureConnect session
375 Sure Connect SureConnectURLhits
376 Sure Connect Thresholdconditionsfailed
377 TCP All client connections
378 TCP All server connections
379 TCP Closing client connections
380 TCP Closing server connections
381 TCP CurrentPhysicalserverswithopenconns
382 TCP Establishedclientconnections
383 TCP Establishedserverconnections
384 TCP Openingclientconnections
385 TCP Openingserverconnections
386 TCP RejectedTCPSYNcookiepackets(BadSeqNo)
387 TCP RejectedTCPSYNcookiepackets(BadSignature)
388 TCP ServerConnReuse-poolhits
389 TCP Server active connections
390 TCP Spare connections
391 TCP Surge queue
392 TCP TCP client connection open rate
393 TCP TCP current pending connections
394 UDP UDP bytes received
395 UDP UDP bytes transmitted
396 UDP UDPpacketratethreshold
397 UDP UDP packets received
398 UDP UDP packets transmitted
399 UDP UDPratethreshold
400 UDP UDP unknown service errors
401 VPN Backend HTTP server probes
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402 VPN Backendnon-HTTPserverprobes
403 VPN Backend servers probe successes
404 VPN CPS connection failure
405 VPN CPS connection success
406 VPN Clientconfigurationrequests
407 VPN DNS queries received
408 VPN File-systemrequestsreceived
409 VPN ICA license failure
410 VPN IIP disabled and MIP disabled
411 VPN IIP disabled and MIP used
412 VPN IIP failed and MIP disabled
413 VPN IIP failed and MIP used
414 VPN Login-pagedeliveryfailures
415 VPN Login-pagerequestsreceived
416 VPN SOCKSclienterror
417 VPN SOCKSconnectrequestreceived
418 VPN SOCKSconnectrequestsent
419 VPN SOCKSconnectresponsereceived
420 VPN SOCKSconnectresponsesent
421 VPN SOCKSmethodrequestreceived
422 VPN SOCKSmethodrequestsent
423 VPN SOCKSmethodresponsereceived
424 VPN SOCKSmethodresponsesent
425 VPN SOCKSservererror
426 VPN SSLVPN tunnels
427 VPN STA connection failure
428 VPN STA connection success
429 VPN STA request sent
430 VPN STA response received
431 VPN WINS queries received
Vector Counter (CloudBridge™)
S_No. Counter Group Name Counters
1 CloudBridgeAppTraffic+ App dropped received packets per second
2 App dropped received rate(bps)
3 App dropped sent rate(bps)
4 App dropped transmit packets per second
5 App received packets per second
6 App received rate(bps)
7 App sent rate(bps)
8 App transmit packets per second
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9 CloudBridgeICATraffic+ WANtransmitbandwidth(%)
10 WAN transmit data rate (bps)
11 CloudBridge Link Stats + Link dropped received packets
12 Link dropped received rate(bps)
13 Link dropped sent packets
14 Link dropped sent rate(bps)
15 Link received packets
16 Link received rate(bps)
17 Link sent packets
18 Link sent rate(bps)
19 CloudBridgeQOSStats+ QOSdroppedreceiverate(bps)
20 QOSdroppedreceivedpackets
21 QOSdroppedsentpackets
22 QOSdroppedsentrate(bps)
23 QOSreceiverate(bps)
24 QOSreceivedpackets
25 QOSsentpackets
26 QOSsentrate(bps)
27 CloudBridge Service Classes + Accelerated connections
28 Accelerated data rate (bps)
29 Compression ratio
30 New accelerated connections
31 NonAccelerated bytes
32 NonAccelerated bytes(Actual)
33 NonAccelerated connections
34 NonAccelerated connections(Actual)
35 NonAccelerated data rate (bps)
36 Receivebandwidthsavings(%)
37 Receive compression ratio
38 Send and receive compression ratio
39 Sendbandwidthsavings(%)
40 Send compression ratio
41 Total accelerated bytes
42 Total precompression octets
Scalar Counter (CloudBridge)
S_No. Counter Group Name Counters
1 CloudBridge System Active connections
2 Bandwidthlimit(bps)
3 CPU usage
4 Compressioneffectivebandwidth(bps)
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5 LAN receive bytes
6 LAN receive datarate (bps)
7 LAN transmit bytes
8 LAN transmit data rate (bps)
9 NonAccelerated rate
10 Number of accelerated connections
11 Numberofnon-acceleratedconnections
12 Number of plugins connected
13 OperationalState
14 Receivebandwidthsavings(%)
15 Receive compression ratio (cumulative)
16 Receive compression ratio (per poll interval)
17 Receive link utilization (%)
18 Send and receive compression ratio (per poll interval)
19 Sendbandwidthsavings(%)
20 Send compression ratio (cumulative)
21 Send compression ratio (per poll interval)
22 System Load
23 Transmitandreceivebandwidthsavings(%)
24 Transmit link utilization (%)
25 WAN receive bytes
26 WAN receive data rate (bps)
27 WAN transmit bytes
28 WAN transmit data rate (bps)