{"id":3508,"date":"2017-05-01T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2017-08-05T11:01:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T07:01:32","slug":"aside-netscaler-newnslog-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/aside\/aside-netscaler-newnslog-files\/","title":{"rendered":"[Aside] NetScaler newnslog files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some links to myself on the <code>newnslog<\/code> files (these are binary log files; high precision; need a tool called <code>nsconmsg<\/code> to view them).\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o-4GkIRBF-E&amp;t=2557s\">NetScaler Master Class of April 2017<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Useful blog posts:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/uncon\/wiki\/blob\/master\/netscaler\/nsconmsg.md\">https:\/\/github.com\/uncon\/wiki\/blob\/master\/netscaler\/nsconmsg.md<\/a>\u00a0(has a good list of all the options)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.franken.pro\/blog\/citrix-netscaler-cli-commands\">https:\/\/www.franken.pro\/blog\/citrix-netscaler-cli-commands<\/a>\u00a0(a very good post with examples)<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.citrix.com\/article\/CTX113341\">https:\/\/support.citrix.com\/article\/CTX113341<\/a> &#8211; from Citrix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A typical format of the command is like this:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true\">nsconmsg -K \/path\/to\/newnslog -d &lt;operation&gt;<\/pre>\n<p>The &lt;operation&gt; can be one of these (this is just a copy-paste from <code>nsconmsg -?<\/code>):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"\">current - display the current performance data\r\npast - display the performance data from begining\r\nstats - display current statistics counters\r\nfinalstats - display final newnslog statistics counters\r\nlast - display last newnslog statistics counters\r\nmemstats - display current memory statistics\r\nstatswt0 - display current statistics counters, excluding counters with 0 value\r\nlastwt0 - display last newnslog statistics counters, excluding counters with 0 value\r\nfinalstatswt0 - display final newnslog statistics counters, excluding counters with 0 value (same as '-d lastwt0')\r\ndevcr - display device creation\/removal information\r\ndevlink - display device link information\r\ndevname - display all device names\r\nsymname - display all symbol names &amp; decoding scheme\r\ndevsymrel - display all device and symbol relationship\r\nevent - display events\r\nnicdata - display NIC debug data\r\neventwait - display events (real time wake)\r\nconsmsg - display console message\r\noldconmsg - display netscaler old console message (use -s options for different debug level)\r\nsetime - display the start and end time of data file\r\nauditedcmd - display audited command\r\nlogfromnfw - display seleced log messages from new logging framework\r\ncopy - alias to copyr\r\ncopyr - copy data from one file to another file with filter and sample rate change\r\nmaxvalue - display highest value and time\r\nminvalue - display lowest value and time\r\nmaxrate - display highest rate value and time\r\nminrate - display lowest rate value and time\r\ndistrconmsg - display distribution of counter (use -s options for different debug level)<\/pre>\n<p>The newnslog files are rotated every 2 days (or a certain number of events if I remember correctly). The older ones can be accessed\u00a0by putting a path to that file (e.g. <code>\/var\/nslog\/newnslog.28.tar.gz<\/code> in the command above). This will extract the file and show the logs.\u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/support.citrix.com\/article\/CTX113341\">Citrix page<\/a>\u00a0says we have to extract the logs first, but am guessing that&#8217;s old info.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now. Will add more to this post later &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some links to myself on the newnslog files (these are binary log files; high precision; need a tool called nsconmsg to view them).\u00a0 NetScaler Master Class of April 2017 Useful blog posts: https:\/\/github.com\/uncon\/wiki\/blob\/master\/netscaler\/nsconmsg.md\u00a0(has a good list of all the options) https:\/\/www.franken.pro\/blog\/citrix-netscaler-cli-commands\u00a0(a very good post with examples) https:\/\/support.citrix.com\/article\/CTX113341 &#8211; from Citrix A typical format of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/aside\/aside-netscaler-newnslog-files\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Aside] NetScaler newnslog files<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[258,657],"tags":[647,738],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}