Citrix Netscaler VPX Monitoring A-Z

I am wanting no monitor service availability, service hits over time, VIP availability, throughput. Does anyone have a step by step process for monitoring these elements of a Netscaler VPX load balancer? Thank you.

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mesverrum

I wouldn't try to use SAM for Netscalers, I use NPM with the custom UNDP pollers.
This thread has a decent poller file you can import as a starting point https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/NPM-Documents/NetScaler-Universal-Device-Pollers-UnDP/tac-p/527216

I know back when I was working as a consultant I had another expanded version of that along with some custom views and reports to tie it all together in a nice package, but I no longer have access to those files. I will say you can put together some very good detailed info, but making it look good and building good alert logic to go with it is a pretty big task.

serena

@designerfx has a post that could be of help while you look at monitoring! https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/SAM-Discussions/Netscaler-polling-Solarwinds-API-Edition/m-p/148781

FormerMember

I was able to add in the universal pollers and associate them at the node. But they're yielding no data.

FormerMember

Looks like we're behind on our SAM versioning

Product Name	Server & Application Monitor
Version	6.7.0
Service Pack	None
License	Production
Allowed Number of Component Monitors	unlimited
Total Number of Component Monitors	6561
Licensed Component Monitors	6561
Unlicensed Component Monitors	0
Available Component Monitors	unlimited

AE_Watcher

Hello SW community (Thwack), which template is used to monitor the servers or virtual nodes of the Citrix ADC VPX version NS 13.0.64.35.nc specifically when one is in a disabled state