License Expiration and License Rate Limiting Cause HA Failovers and Performance issues

License Expiration and License Rate Limiting Cause HA Failovers and Performance issues

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Article ID: CTX211911

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Description

  • Load balanced application performance issues
  • Difficulties connecting to NSIP for management (GUI and CLI)
  • HA Failovers due to HA Heartbeats missed
  • License shows expired in /var/nslog/license.log
  • show license indicates licensed features lost and/or VPX-1 License is present
  • Counter incrementing: allnic_err_rl_rate_pkt_drops

Resolution

Replacement of Netscaler platform license will resolve issue.

Problem Cause

Platform license expiration has caused the Netscaler to transition to demo mode (depending on model/platform, limiting all traffic [including management] to a total across all interfaces of less than 1Mbps).