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Managing and Monitoring the NetScaler SDX
Appliance
Apr 18, 2015
After your SDX appliance is up and running, you can perform various tasks to manage and monitor the appliance from the
Management Service user interface.
If a task that you need to perform is not described below, see the list of tasks at the left.
You can modify the network configuration details that you provided for the NetScaler SDX appliance during initial
configuration.
Modifying the Network Configuration of the SDX Appliance
You can modify the network configuration details that you provided for the NetScaler SDX appliance during initial
configuration.
To modify the network configuration of the SDX appliance, click System. In the System pane, under the Setup Appliance
group, click Network Configuration and enter the details in the wizard.
Changing the Password of the Default User Account
The default user account provides complete access to all features of the Citrix NetScaler SDX appliance. Therefore, to
preserve security, the nsroot account should be used only when necessary, and only individuals whose duties require full
access should know the password for the nsroot account. Citrix recommends changing the nsroot password frequently. If
you lose the password, you can reset the password to the default by reverting the appliance settings to factory defaults ,
and you can then change the password.
To change the password of the default user account, click System > User Administration > Users. Select a user and click
Edit to change the password.
Modifying the Time Zone on the Appliance
You can modify the time zone of the Management Service and the Xen Server. The default time zone is UTC.
To modify the time zone, click System and in the System Settings group, click Change Time Zone.
Modifying the Hostname of the Appliance
You can change the hostname of the Management Service.
VLAN Filtering
VLAN filtering provides segregation of data between NetScaler VPX instances that share a physical port. For example, if
you have configured two NetScaler VPX instances on two different VLANs and you enable VLAN filtering, one instance
cannot view the other instance's traffic. If VLAN filtering is disabled, all of the instances can see the tagged or untagged
broadcast packets, but the packets are dropped at the software level. If VLAN filtering is enabled, each tagged broadcast
packet reaches only the instance that belongs to the corresponding tagged VLAN. If none of the instances belong to the
corresponding tagged VLAN, the packet is dropped at the hardware level (NIC).