Introduction to NetScaler Console service connect for NetScaler SDX appliances
NetScaler Console service is a cloud-based solution that helps you manage, monitor, orchestrate, automate, and troubleshoot your NetScaler SDX appliances. It also provides analytical insights and curated machine learning based recommendations for your applications health, performance, and security. For more information, see NetScaler Console service.
NetScaler Application Delivery Management (ADM) service connect is a feature to enable seamless onboarding of NetScaler SDX appliances onto NetScaler Console service. This feature helps NetScaler SDX appliances and NetScaler Console service to function as a holistic solution, which offers customers multi fold benefits.
NetScaler Console service connect feature lets the NetScaler SDX instance automatically connect with NetScaler Console service and send system, usage, and telemetry data to it. Using this data, the NetScaler Console service gives you some insights and recommendations on your NetScaler SDX infrastructure - like quick identification of performance issues, and high resource usage.
To harness the power of NetScaler Console service, you can choose to onboard your NetScaler SDX appliances to NetScaler Console service. The onboarding process uses ADM service connect, and makes the experience seamless and faster for you.
Points to note
NetScaler Console service connect is now available on NetScaler MPX, SDX, and VPX instances, and NetScaler Gateway appliances.
NetScaler Console service connect is not yet available on the NetScaler Console service.
For more information, see Data governance.
How does NetScaler Console service connect support with NetScaler Console service?
Here is a high-level workflow of how the NetScaler Console service connect feature on NetScaler interacts with NetScaler Console service.
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NetScaler Console service connect feature on NetScaler SDX appliance auto connects with NetScaler Console service using a periodic probe request.
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This request has system, usage and telemetry data, using which the NetScaler Console service gives you some insights and recommendations on your NetScaler infrastructure - like quick identification of performance issues, and high resource usage.
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You can view the insights and recommendations and decide to onboard your NetScaler SDX appliances to the NetScaler Console service to start managing your NetScaler SDX appliances.
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When you decide to onboard, the NetScaler Console service connect feature helps complete the onboarding seamlessly.
What versions of NetScaler is NetScaler Console service connect supported on?
NetScaler Console service connect is supported on all NetScaler platforms and all appliance models (MPX, VPX, and SDX). Starting from NetScaler release 13.0 build 64.xx, NetScaler Console service connect is enabled by default for NetScaler SDX appliances.
How to enable NetScaler Console service connect?
If you are an existing NetScaler customer, and upgrade to NetScaler release 13.0 build 64.xx, NetScaler Console service connect is enabled by default as part of the upgrade process.
If you are a new NetScaler customer, installing NetScaler release 13.0 build 64.xx, NetScaler Console service connect is enabled by default as part of the install process.
Note
Unlike the new NetScaler appliances, existing NetScaler SDX appliances find the route through Citrix Insight Service (CIS) or Call Home.
How to enable and disable NetScaler Console service connect?
You can enable and disable NetScaler Console service connect from CLI, GUI, or NITRO API methods.
Using the CLI
To enable the NetScaler Console service connect by using the CLI
At the command prompt, type:
set autoreg_setting autoreg=true
To disable the NetScaler Console service connect by using the CLI
At the command prompt, type:
set autoreg_setting autoreg=false
To display NetScaler Console service connect settings by using the CLI
show autoreg_setting
autoreg: true
is_banner_displayed: true
Done
Using the GUI
To disable the NetScaler Console service connect by using the NetScaler GUI
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Navigate to System. On the System page, click Configure NetScaler Console service connect under System Settings section.
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On the Configure ADM Parameters page, clear Enable NetScaler Console service connect, and click OK.
Using the NITRO API
You can disable NetScaler Console service connect by using the NITRO command.
curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type:application/json" http://192.0.2.10/nitro/v1/config/sdx_autoreg -d '{"sdx_autoreg":{"autoreg":"false"}}' -u nsroot:Test@1
NetScaler Console built-in agent behavior
From NetScaler release 13.0 build 61.xx and higher, NetScaler SDX instances have built in agent with ADM service connect functionality. The NetScaler Console built-in agent available on NetScaler SDX instances starts like an active daemon and communicates with ADM service. After communication with ADM service is established, the built-in agent auto-upgrades itself to the latest software version regularly.
References
For more information on NetScaler Console service connect, see the following topics:
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Data governance: Data governance.
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NetScaler Console service: NetScaler Application Delivery Management Service.
In this article
- How does NetScaler Console service connect support with NetScaler Console service?
- What versions of NetScaler is NetScaler Console service connect supported on?
- How to enable NetScaler Console service connect?
- How to enable and disable NetScaler Console service connect?
- NetScaler Console built-in agent behavior
- References