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Citrix NetScaler Load Balancing Report
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The Citrix Load Balancing Report lets you analyze the usage trends of the load balancers in your organization. For the selected time frame, the report presents data about past activity and performance, either individually for each load balancer or in summary form for all selected load balancers.
Use the report to answer questions like:
- Do I need to add more capacity to serve the load balancers?
- How many requests does a certain load balancer usually handle during business hours?
- Is load balancer traffic and behavior influencing user experience?
Select Which Load Balancers to View
By default, the report shows all load balancers in your environment. To select which load balancers to include in the report:
- In the first dropdown, select which NetScalers to include.
- In the second dropdown, select which load balancers to include. The list of available load balancers depends on your selected NetScalers.
Select a Graph Display Mode
Set whether to plot load balancers on the graphs individually, or as a summary of all selected load balancers.
One Line - Summary plots all selected load balancers as a single line. If the metric is a percentage, the value is the average of the percentages of all selected load balancers. For all other metrics, the value is the sum of the average values of all selected load balancers.
One Line - Per Appliance plots all selected load balancers individually.
The graph display mode does not affect the grid at the bottom of the report.
Report Details
This section describes the data you can find in the report.
Graphs
Graph | Contents |
Connections | Total (average) number of client connections to all (each) of the selected virtual servers together (individually) |
Traffic In/Out | Total (average) rate of request/response bits, for all (each) of the selected load balancers together (individually), in Mbps |
vServer Health | The average percentage of services bound to all (each) of the selected virtual servers that were in an Upstate |
Grid Contents
The grid at the bottom of the report shows data about each selected load balancer for the selected timeframe.
Column | Description |
NetScaler Name | Name of the NetScaler |
Load Balancer Name | Name of the Load Balancer
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Primary IP Address | The IP address of the vServer |
Primary Port | The port on which the service is running |
Protocol | Protocol used by the Load Balancer for connections (HTTP, SSL, etc.) |
Traffic In | The average rate of request bits for the Load Balancer, in Mbps |
Traffic Out | The average rate of response bits for the Load Balancer, in Mbps |
vServer Health | The average percentage of services bound to this virtual server that were in an Upstate |
Active Services | The average number of active services bound to this virtual server |
Inactive Services | The average number of inactive services bound to this virtual server |
Hit Rate | Average rate per second of total requests received by this Load Balancer |
Spill Over | Maximum number of spillovers experienced by the virtual server |
Surge Count | The average number of requests in the surge queue |
Method | The load-balancing method used by this Load Balancer (Round Robin, Least Connection, etc.) |