Go client for configuring Citrix ADC

About

The Citrix®ADC® NITRO for GO allows you to configure and monitor the NetScaler appliance programmatically in GO based applications.

Installation

• From github

go get github.com/citrix/adc-nitro-go

• When downloaded from Citrix ADC GUI

Once you have a copy of the source archive unpacked into a similarly-named directory, run following command:

./install.sh

install.sh will copy the lib to $GOPATH/src/github.com/citrix/adc-nitro-go.

Usage

Import the SDK from github.com/citrix/adc-nitro-go/service. Config objects are available at github.com/citrix/adc-nitro-go/resource/config. Instantiate a client using NewNitroClient. To initialize the client from environment variables:

export NS_URL=http://<ip-address>
export NS_LOGIN=<adc-username>
export NS_PASSWORD=<adc-password>

Config object types can be passed in as strings ("lbvserver"), or looked up from service.<config object type>.Type(). The general pattern for NetScaler config objects is some combination of AddResource, UpdateResource, BindResource, UnbindResource and DeleteResource.

Logging level can be set using env variable NS_LOG or calling function client.SetLogLevel("debug").

Example

package main

import (
        "github.com/citrix/adc-nitro-go/resource/config/lb"
        "github.com/citrix/adc-nitro-go/service"
)

func main() {
        client, _ := service.NewNitroClientFromEnv()
        lb1 := lb.Lbvserver{
                Name:        "sample_lb",
                Ipv46:       "10.71.136.50",
                Lbmethod:    "ROUNDROBIN",
                Servicetype: "HTTP",
                Port:        8000,
        }
        _, err := client.AddResource(service.Lbvserver.Type(), "sample_lb", &lb1)
        if err == nil {
            client.SaveConfig()
        }
}

Unit Tests

The unit tests are invoked with make unit. Note that they are actually functional tests and need a running NetScaler. The tests also need the environment variables NS_URL, NS_LOGIN and NS_PASSWORD to be set. Additionaly NS_LOG can be set for setting log level and ADC_PLATFORM to CPX for skipping some tests which don't work for CPX.

Using HTTPS

If you specify https in the URL then the client will use HTTPS. By default it will verify the presented certificate. If you want to use the default or self-signed certificates without verification, specify sslVerify=false in the constructor NewNitroClientFromParams or set the environment variable NS_SSLVERIFY to false and use the NewNitroClientFromEnv constructor