ADC

Web server logging

You can use the Web server logging feature to send logs of HTTP and HTTPS requests to a client system for storage and retrieval. This feature has two components:

  • The Web log server, which runs on the Citrix ADC.
  • The Citrix ADC Web Logging (NSWL) client, which runs on the client system.

When you run the Citrix ADC Web Logging (NSWL) client:

  1. It connects to the Citrix ADC.
  2. The Citrix ADC buffers the HTTP and HTTPS request log entries before sending them to the client.
  3. The client can filter the entries before storing them.

To configure Web server logging, you first enable the Web logging feature on the Citrix ADC and configure the size of the buffer for temporarily storing the log entries. Then, you install NSWL on the client system. You then add the Citrix ADC IP address (NSIP) to the NSWL configuration file. You are now ready to start the NSWL client to begin logging. You can customize Web server logging by making additional modifications to the NSWL configuration file (log.conf).

Web server logging