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Citrix Command Center Deployment Sizing Guide

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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.

http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/command-center-41/cc-perf-report-pold-cntrs-tsk.html#cc-perf-report-pold-cntrs-tsk


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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

http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/command-center-52/cc-mon-mng-events-conf-evnt-alarm-trgrs-tsk.html


http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/command-center-52/cc-admin-conf-invntry-settng-4-0-tsk.html

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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)



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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.



http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/command-center-51/cc-ns-snmp-counters-wrapper-con.html

http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/command-center-52/cc-admin-conf-servr-settng-4-0-tsk.html



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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



196 SSL BackendDHauthentications

197 SSL BackendDSSauthentications

198 SSL BackendIDEA128-bitencryptions

199 SSL BackendMD5hashes

200 SSL BackendRC2128-bitencryptions







207 SSL BackendRSA1024-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



230 SSL DESencryptionsoffloaded

231 SSL DH1024-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







250 SSL RSA1024-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)



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)







296 SSL(cumulative) BackendRSA1024-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)



317 SSL(cumulative) DESencryptionsoffloaded(Actual)

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318 SSL(cumulative) DH1024-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)







336 SSL(cumulative) RSA1024-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™)


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)


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)

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