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.

Note

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

Note

Words in parentheses relate to One-Line Per Appliance mode. They replace the words immediately preceding them, which relate to the default mode, One Line – Summary.

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 Click the name to open another Citrix NetScaler Load Balancing report with only this Load Balancer selected.
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.)