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A simple library to control Citrix Netscaler 9.2+ with NITRO API.

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# TODO
# 1. Right now setup.py install creates an extra nsnitro.py along with the folder nsnitro. This creates trouble when running from nsnitro import *
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Simple Python Library to control Citrix Netscaler 9.2+ load balancers with NITRO API.
What we're trying here is implement Citrix NITRO API SDK (that's available for Java and C#) in Python.

You can find simple command-line interface using this library in contrib/.
Feedback/comments welcome.


Very basic usage:

import nsnitro

nitro = NSNitro('192.168.1.100', 'user', 'password')
nitro.login()

# add service test

addservice = NSService()
addservice.set_name("testnitroadd")
addservice.set_servername("existingserver")
addservice.set_servicetype("HTTP")
addservice.set_port(11111)
NSService.add(nitro, addservice)

# get service test

service = NSService()
service.set_name("testnitroadd")
service = service.get(nitro, service)
print service.get_name() + ": " + service.get_svrstate()

# disable service test

disservice = NSService()
disservice.set_name("testnitroadd")
NSService.disable(nitro, disservice)

service = NSService()
service.set_name("testnitroadd")
service = service.get(nitro, service)
print service.get_name() + ": " + service.get_svrstate()

# enable service test

enservice = NSService()
enservice.set_name("testnitroadd")
NSService.enable(nitro, enservice)

service = NSService()
service.set_name("testnitroadd")
service = service.get(nitro, service)
print service.get_name() + ": " + service.get_svrstate()


# rename service test

renservice = NSService()
renservice.set_name("testnitroadd")
renservice.set_newname("testnitroadd_rename")
NSService.rename(nitro, renservice)

# rename service back test

renservice = NSService()
renservice.set_name("testnitroadd_rename")
renservice.set_newname("testnitroadd")
NSService.rename(nitro, renservice)

# delete service test

delservice = NSService()
delservice.set_name("testnitroadd")
NSService.delete(nitro, delservice)

try:
service = NSService()
service.set_name("testnitroadd")
service = service.get(nitro, service)
print service.get_name() + ": " + service.get_svrstate()
except NSNitroError, e:
print e.message

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