title: Citrix Netscaler DNS Rates
agents: snmp
catalog: app/netscaler
license: GPL
distribution: check_mk
description:

 This check monitors various DNS counter rates of the Citrix Netscaler
 Loadbalacing Appliance. It uses the {NS-ROOT-MIB} to access the
 {nsDnsServerStatsGroup} via SNMP.

 Monitored counter rates are the total DNS queries and the total DNS
 answers (aka replies).

 Warning and critical levels can be configured for each of the rates.

inventory:
 One service per loadbalancer device will be created.

perfdata:
 The counter rates of the monitored counters.

item:
 The name of counter.

[parameters]
parameters(dict): parameters is a dictionary with a key for each monitored counter.

 {"query_rate"}: a tuple of warning and critical levels.

 {"answer_rate"}: a tuple of warning and critical levels.

 The numbers are integers and represent the counter increase per second.

[configuration]
netscaler_dnsrates_default_levels(dict): This variable is preset to
{{ "query_rate": (1500.0, 2000.0), "answer_rate": (1500.0, 2000.0) }}
