Nsconmsg is a logging process that runs nonstop on the NetScaler. It contains a snapshot of all the available counters taken once every 7 seconds. There are an excess of 10,000 counters each with specific conditions for specific features, which makes this such a formidable troubleshooting tool in identifying if a problem condition has been hit.
The logs produced by this utility are available in /var/nslog
. By default, they roll over once every two days or on reaching a size of 300 MB whichever is first. The file newlog
will always be latest (current log file). They can go up to 99 files after which they restart from 0.
nsconmsg
is used from the shell prompt with the following syntax:
nsconmsg –K <path> –g <counter_name> -d <display_option>
The commonly used options are as follows:
-K
: This is used to specify the name of the log file; if not used, current values of counters are shown.-g
: This is used to grep for the values...