Check if a system software update is available
slauger opened this issue · 3 comments
Since NetScaler 12.0 there is a update check in the admin GUI.
I couldn't find any API method for this. I tried to reverse engineer the PHP code on the appliance to understand how the check works, but I couldn't find anything yet.
We need some kind of API from Citrix to get the latest version for a specific release (10.5, 11.0, 11.1, 12.0). This would be helpful for a lot of my customers.
An other possible resource to get the latest available version is the RSS feed from Citrix. But well, this might be not the best solution):
This would be cool for other products as well (XenMobile, XenDesktop, ...).
is it possible that this check is done on the client side. So the browser queries for possible available updates?
That's just what I was thinking, but I couldn't find anything yet. I also played around with Wireshark and TamperData some time ago.
Parsing the RSS feed works so far, but I don't want to add XML dependencies (e.g. XML::Simple) to check_netscaler. I created a new plugin (check_nsupdate) for this use case.
https://github.com/slauger/check_updates
Closed.