Howto: Execute Netscaler Loadbalancer NITRO after Netscaler Load Balancer using Pattern Orchestrator

[Tyler Piccolo]

We are attempting to discover Citrix Netscaler devices using the pattern -> Netscaler Loadbalancer NITRO. When doing quick discovery or scheduling a discovery against a single IP address we know to be using SNMP. All the firewalls are open on these ports, and the SNMP Credentials have been added to the instance. Still, when in the this pattern is not executed in any of the discovery stages.

Because the pattern does have input parameters, we attempted scheduling it as a Serverless discovery. The pattern log shows us this was unsuccessful.

After running a normal discovery against this IP, the device does enter the SNMP - Classify, followed by the HorizontalDiscoveryProbe - Pattern Launcher: Netscaler Load Balancer. The device is successfully classified as a Citrix Netscaler CI Type and ends this. For us, this is not the desired behavior. We need the Netscaler Loadbalancer NITRO pattern to execute.

At this point, we believe we may need to use the Pattern Orchestrator to kick off the pattern but have had trouble doing so and would like additional assistance.

[Aneesh-D]

Dear @Tyler Piccolo - I know this is late, but just wanted to leave a reply so that it might be helpful to others.

So the way it works out of the box is - it checks for the System Object Id OID  in SNMP System OIDs

Eg: in below screen, you can see the OID for Netscaler Load balancer. Open this record to see which horizontal probe is attached with this classifer.

You can either duplicate this classifier to create a new one and then change the horizontal probe to NITRO version or update the existing classifier to point to NITRO pattern.