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Troubleshooting NetScaler

You're reading from   Troubleshooting NetScaler Gain essential knowledge and keep your NetScaler environment in top form

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
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ISBN-13 9781782175353
Length 270 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Raghu Varma Tirumalaraju Raghu Varma Tirumalaraju
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. NetScaler Concepts at a Glance 2. Traffic Management Features FREE CHAPTER 3. Integrated Caching and Compression 4. AAA for Traffic Management 5. High Availability and Networking 6. Application Firewall 7. NetScaler Gateway™ 8. System-Level Issues 9. Troubleshooting Tools Index

The Showtechsupport utility


The show techsupport utility runs a perl script to collect a number of log files and command outputs. The utility's primary purpose is for Citrix Techsupport Engineers to collect all necessary logs and debug info via a single command. But it is also useful to you as an Administrator as it provides you a means to export all the useful logs to your local machine, which might have your preferred tools, such as Textpad, to examine them.

Running the utility

The easiest means is to use the GUI. It is available under System | Diagnostics | Generate Support File. You can also run the command showtechsupport from CLI or shell and then export the file that gets created in the folder /var/tmp/support/.

What does it contain?

The file itself is named with the convention—collector_<primary or secondary (denoted as P/S)>_NSIP_Date_Time. Here's a summary of the useful info it contains.

The shell directory

This is a collection of files each with the output of CLI or shell commands...

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