Citrix and nsclient

[Patrick Stockton]

On the NSclient support forums it's been documented that the client will occasionally crash.
http://support.tsmgsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=261

I've noticed the client will occasionally stop to requests but haven't had it happen often enough to 
try and figure out a pattern.  One way to tell if the client has stopped responding to requests is 
to try and stop the service.  If the service fails to stop and kill the process then you know the 
client has crashed.

A reboot will fix the problem but if a reboot isn't possible use the pskill utility to kill the 
actual process id (much like UNIX kill):
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml

Our Citrix servers reboot every night so the nsclient has never had an oprotunity to run longer than 
24 hours so I'm still trying to figure out exactly what conditions are needed to cause the client to 
crash.

patrick


Frank de Groodt wrote:
> It's not the command to check if Citrix is running on the box that gives
> us problems but all checks performed by check_nt very often come up with
> connection refused.
> 
> Frank
> 
> On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 13:58, Patrick Stockton wrote:
> 
>>I'm using the ns client to check a number of Citrix metaframe boxes.
>>
>>What is the command you are using to check the Citrix boxes.
>>
>>Mine looks like this:
>>
>>
>># 'check_nt_citrix' command definition
>>define command{
>>         command_name    check_nt_citrix
>>         command_line    $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v SERVICESTATE -l imaservice
>>}
>>
>>
>>Patrick
>>
>>sonar at xs4all.nl wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>We have problems running the nsclient on Citrix machines.
>>>While the boxes are running just fine, no huge mem or cpu load, check_nt
>>>returns with "Connection refused by host". We've tried several versions of
>>>the nsclient but nothing seems to help.
>>>
>>>Does anyone have any idea or the same problem??
>>>
>>>Thx,
>>>
>>>Frank de Groodt
>>>
>>>
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