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System Health Monitoring

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System health monitoring detects errors in the monitored components, so that you can take corrective action to avoid a

failure. The following components are monitored on a NetScaler SDX appliance:

Hardware and software resources

Physical and virtual disks

Hardware sensors, such as fan, temperature, voltage, and power supply sensors

Interfaces

In the Monitoring tab, click System Health. A summary of all the components is displayed. To view details of the monitored

components, expand System Health, and then click the component that you want to monitor.

Monitoring the Resources on the SDX Appliance

You can monitor the hardware and software components on the NetScaler SDX appliance and take corrective action if

required. To view the components monitored, in the Monitoring tab, expand System Health, and then click Resources.

Details are displayed for hardware and software resources. For all hardware components, current and expected values are

displayed. For software components, except the BMC firmware version, current and expected values are displayed as not

applicable (NA).

Name

Name of the component, such as CPU, memory, or BMC firmware version.

Status

State (condition) of the component. For Hardware and for BMC Firmware Version, ERROR indicates a deviation from the

expected value. For calls to XenServer, ERROR indicates that the Management Service is unable to communicate with

XenServer by using an API, HT TP, PING, or SSH call. For Health Monitor Plugin, ERROR indicates that the plugin is not

installed on XenServer.

Current Value

Current value of the component. In normal conditions, current value is the same as the expected value.

Expected Value

Expected value for the component. Does not apply to software calls to XenServer.

Monitoring the Storage Resources on the SDX Appliance

You can monitor the disks on the NetScaler SDX appliance and take corrective action if required. To view the components

monitored, in the Monitoring tab, expand System Health, and then click Storage. Details are displayed for physical disks and

for virtual disks or partitions created from physical disks.

For disks (Disk), the following details are displayed:

Name

Name of the physical disk.

Size

Size of the disk, in gigabytes (GB).

Utilized

Amount of data on the disk, in gigabytes (GB).

Citrix NetScaler SDX 8015 User Manual

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