High CPU
Following are some of the functionality and high CPU related debugging issues encoutered and the best practices to follow when working with Web App Firewall:
Check Policy hits, Bindings, Network configuration, Web App Firewall configuration:
- Identify misconfiguration
- Identifyvserverthat is serving the affected traffic
Inspect logs in the following log files for security violations and recent configuration changes:
/var/log/ns.log
/var/nslog/import.log
/var/nslog/aslearn.log
tail -f /var/log/ns.log | grep APPFW_SIGNATURE_MATCH
Example:
Jun 13 01:11:09 10.217.31.98 CEF:0|Citrix|NetScaler|NS11.0|APPFW| APPFW_SIGNATURE_MATCH|6|src=10.217.253.62 spt=61141 method=GET request= http://aaron.stratum8.net/FFC/wwwboard/passwd.txt msg=Signature violation rule ID 807: web-cgi /wwwboard/passwd.txt access cn1=140 cn2=841 cs1=pr_ffc cs2=PPE0 cs3=OyTgjbXBqcpBFeENKDlde3OkMQ00001 cs4=ALERT cs5=2015 cs6=web-cgi act=not blocked
Isolate the traffic that is effected:
- Isolate the profile
- Isolate the security check
- Isolate the URL, virtual server and traffic parameters
Conditional profile level trace helps identify the traffic and violation records:
set appfw profile -trace ON
start nstrace -mode APPFW -size 0
stop nstrace
Note: Ensure that the trace is collected with -size 0 option.
Check appfw, dht, IP reputation activity counters:
nsconmsg -g as_ -g appfwreq_ -g iprep -d current
Monitor window size for resets in connection:
Appfw sets the window size to 9845 when Citrix ADC resets the connection due to an invalid http message.
Examples:
- Malformed request received - connection reset
- High CPU related issues
- Check data sheets for system limits
- Inspect for cpu usage, appfw, DHT and memory related activity. Monitor appfw sessions
- nsconmsg -g cc_cpu_use -g appfwreq -g as -g dht -g mem_AS_OBJ -g mem_AS_COMPONENT -d current
Monitor memory allocated and freed from Web App Firewall components and objects during the target time period.It helps in isolating the protection leading to high CPU usage.
- Profiler output
- Observe logs
Isolate appfw check leading to high CPU:
- startURLClosure
- Formfiledconsistency
- CSRF
- Cookie protections
- Referer header check
Ascertain that autoupdate of signatures is not leading to high CPU (Disable to confirm).
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