Architecture

The NetScaler API architecture is designed to allow NSConfig client requests to be routed through HTTP daemon, running on the target NetScaler system, to a SOAP handler that translates the SOAP request into a call to the (internal) NetScaler kernel configuration API. Figure below illustrates the NetScaler API Architecture.

The following steps explain the NetScaler API Architecture: The client formats a request containing XML conforming to the SOAP protocol and sends it to NetScaler system. The HTTPD server instance on the NetScaler system routes this request to a SOAP handler. The SOAP handler interprets the SOAP headers, and maps the enclosed request to an internal NetScaler configuration function. The NetScaler kernel acts on the request and returns one or more responses. The SOAP handler then translates the response(s) to a SOAP response message. The XML response is then sent back to the client in a HTTP response.