cache contentGroup¶

The following operations can be performed on "cache contentGroup":

add cache contentGroup¶

Creates a new content group for grouping cached objects on the basis of some unique property.

Synopsys¶

Arguments¶

name

Name for the content group. Must begin with an ASCII alphabetic or underscore (_) character, and must contain only ASCII alphanumeric, underscore, hash (#), period (.), space, colon (:), at (@), equals (=), and hyphen (-) characters. Cannot be changed after the content group is created.

weakPosRelExpiry

Relative expiry time, in seconds, for expiring positive responses with response codes between 200 and 399. Cannot be used in combination with other Expiry attributes. Similar to -relExpiry but has lower precedence.

Default value: -1

Maximum value: 31536000

heurExpiryParam

Heuristic expiry time, in percent of the duration, since the object was last modified.

Default value: -1

Minimum value: 0

Maximum value: 100

relExpiry

Relative expiry time, in seconds, after which to expire an object cached in this content group.

Default value: -1

Maximum value: 31536000

relExpiryMilliSec

Relative expiry time, in milliseconds, after which to expire an object cached in this content group.

Default value: -1

Maximum value: 86400000

absExpiry

Local time, up to 4 times a day, at which all objects in the content group must expire.

CLI Users:

For example, to specify that the objects in the content group should expire by 11:00 PM, type the following command: add cache contentgroup <contentgroup name> -absexpiry 23:00

To specify that the objects in the content group should expire at 10:00 AM, 3 PM, 6 PM, and 11:00 PM, type: add cache contentgroup <contentgroup name> -absexpiry 10:00 15:00 18:00 23:00

absExpiryGMT

Coordinated Universal Time (GMT), up to 4 times a day, when all objects in the content group must expire.

weakNegRelExpiry

Relative expiry time, in seconds, for expiring negative responses. This value is used only if the expiry time cannot be determined from any other source. It is applicable only to the following status codes: 307, 403, 404, and 410.

Default value: -1

Maximum value: 31536000

hitParams

Parameters to use for parameterized hit evaluation of an object. Up to 128 parameters can be specified. Mutually exclusive with the Hit Selector parameter.

invalParams

Parameters for parameterized invalidation of an object. You can specify up to 8 parameters. Mutually exclusive with invalSelector.

ignoreParamValueCase

Ignore case when comparing parameter values during parameterized hit evaluation. (Parameter value case is ignored by default during parameterized invalidation.)

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: VAL_NOT_SET

matchCookies

Evaluate for parameters in the cookie header also.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: VAL_NOT_SET

invalRestrictedToHost

Take the host header into account during parameterized invalidation.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: VAL_NOT_SET

pollEveryTime

Always poll for the objects in this content group. That is, retrieve the objects from the origin server whenever they are requested.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: NO

ignoreReloadReq

Ignore any request to reload a cached object from the origin server.

To guard against Denial of Service attacks, set this parameter to YES. For RFC-compliant behavior, set it to NO.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

removeCookies

Remove cookies from responses.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

prefetch

Attempt to refresh objects that are about to go stale.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

prefetchPeriod

Time period, in seconds before an object's calculated expiry time, during which to attempt prefetch.

Default value: -1

Maximum value: 4294967294

prefetchPeriodMilliSec

Time period, in milliseconds before an object's calculated expiry time, during which to attempt prefetch.

Default value: -1

Maximum value: 4294967290

prefetchMaxPending

Maximum number of outstanding prefetches that can be queued for the content group.

Default value: -1

Minimum value: 0

Maximum value: 4294967294

flashCache

Perform flash cache. Mutually exclusive with Poll Every Time (PET) on the same content group.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: NO

expireAtLastByte

Force expiration of the content immediately after the response is downloaded (upon receipt of the last byte of the response body). Applicable only to positive responses.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: NO

insertVia

Insert a Via header into the response.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

insertAge

Insert an Age header into the response. An Age header contains information about the age of the object, in seconds, as calculated by the integrated cache.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

insertETag

Insert an ETag header in the response. With ETag header insertion, the integrated cache does not serve full responses on repeat requests.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

cacheControl

Insert a Cache-Control header into the response.

quickAbortSize

If the size of an object that is being downloaded is less than or equal to the quick abort value, and a client aborts during the download, the cache stops downloading the response. If the object is larger than the quick abort size, the cache continues to download the response.

Default value: 4194303

Maximum value: 4194303

minResSize

Minimum size of a response that can be cached in this content group.

Default minimum response size is 0.

Maximum value: 2097151

maxResSize

Maximum size of a response that can be cached in this content group.

Default value: 80

Maximum value: 2097151

memLimit

Maximum amount of memory that the cache can use. The effective limit is based on the available memory of the NetScaler appliance.

Default value: 65536

ignoreReqCachingHdrs

Ignore Cache-Control and Pragma headers in the incoming request.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

minHits

Number of hits that qualifies a response for storage in this content group.

Default value: 0

alwaysEvalPolicies

Force policy evaluation for each response arriving from the origin server. Cannot be set to YES if the Prefetch parameter is also set to YES.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: NO

persistHA

Setting persistHA to YES causes IC to save objects in contentgroup to Secondary node in HA deployment.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: NO

pinned

Do not flush objects from this content group under memory pressure.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: NO

lazyDnsResolve

Perform DNS resolution for responses only if the destination IP address in the request does not match the destination IP address of the cached response.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

hitSelector

Selector for evaluating whether an object gets stored in a particular content group. A selector is an abstraction for a collection of PIXL expressions.

invalSelector

Selector for invalidating objects in the content group. A selector is an abstraction for a collection of PIXL expressions.

type

The type of the content group.

Possible values: HTTP, MYSQL, MSSQL

Default value: HTTP

rm cache contentGroup¶

Removes the specified content group. Before removing, make sure that no cache policy has its storeInGroup attribute set to this group, otherwise the group cannot be removed.

Synopsys¶

rm cache contentGroup <name>

Arguments¶

name

Name of the content group to be removed.

set cache contentGroup¶

Modifies the specified attributes of the content group.

Synopsys¶

Arguments¶

name

Name of the content group to be modified.

weakPosRelExpiry

Relative expiry time, in seconds, for expiring positive responses with response codes between 200 and 399. Cannot be used in combination with other Expiry attributes. Similar to -relExpiry but has lower precedence.

Maximum value: 31536000

heurExpiryParam

Heuristic expiry time, in percent of the duration, since the object was last modified.

Minimum value: 0

Maximum value: 100

relExpiry

Relative expiry time, in seconds, after which to expire an object cached in this content group.

Default value: -1

Maximum value: 31536000

relExpiryMilliSec

Relative expiry time, in milliseconds, after which to expire an object cached in this content group.

Default value: -1

Maximum value: 86400000

absExpiry

Local time, up to 4 times a day, at which all objects in the content group must expire.

CLI Users:

For example, to specify that the objects in the content group should expire by 11:00 PM, type the following command: add cache contentgroup <contentgroup name> -absexpiry 23:00

To specify that the objects in the content group should expire at 10:00 AM, 3 PM, 6 PM, and 11:00 PM, type: add cache contentgroup <contentgroup name> -absexpiry 10:00 15:00 18:00 23:00

absExpiryGMT

Coordinated Universal Time (GMT), up to 4 times a day, when all objects in the content group must expire.

weakNegRelExpiry

Relative expiry time, in seconds, for expiring negative responses. This value is used only if the expiry time cannot be determined from any other source. It is applicable only to the following status codes: 307, 403, 404, and 410.

Maximum value: 31536000

hitParams

Parameters to use for parameterized hit evaluation of an object. Up to 128 parameters can be specified. Mutually exclusive with the Hit Selector parameter.

invalParams

Parameters for parameterized invalidation of an object. You can specify up to 8 parameters. Mutually exclusive with invalSelector.

ignoreParamValueCase

Ignore case when comparing parameter values during parameterized hit evaluation. (Parameter value case is ignored by default during parameterized invalidation.)

Possible values: YES, NO

matchCookies

Evaluate for parameters in the cookie header also.

Possible values: YES, NO

invalRestrictedToHost

Take the host header into account during parameterized invalidation.

Possible values: YES, NO

pollEveryTime

Always poll for the objects in this content group. That is, retrieve the objects from the origin server whenever they are requested.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: NO

ignoreReloadReq

Ignore any request to reload a cached object from the origin server.

To guard against Denial of Service attacks, set this parameter to YES. For RFC-compliant behavior, set it to NO.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

removeCookies

Remove cookies from responses.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

prefetch

Attempt to refresh objects that are about to go stale.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

prefetchPeriod

Time period, in seconds before an object's calculated expiry time, during which to attempt prefetch.

Default value: -1

Maximum value: 4294967294

prefetchPeriodMilliSec

Time period, in milliseconds before an object's calculated expiry time, during which to attempt prefetch.

Default value: -1

Maximum value: 4294967290

prefetchMaxPending

Maximum number of outstanding prefetches that can be queued for the content group.

Minimum value: 0

Maximum value: 4294967294

flashCache

Perform flash cache. Mutually exclusive with Poll Every Time (PET) on the same content group.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: NO

expireAtLastByte

Force expiration of the content immediately after the response is downloaded (upon receipt of the last byte of the response body). Applicable only to positive responses.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: NO

insertVia

Insert a Via header into the response.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

insertAge

Insert an Age header into the response. An Age header contains information about the age of the object, in seconds, as calculated by the integrated cache.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

insertETag

Insert an ETag header in the response. With ETag header insertion, the integrated cache does not serve full responses on repeat requests.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

cacheControl

Insert a Cache-Control header into the response.

quickAbortSize

If the size of an object that is being downloaded is less than or equal to the quick abort value, and a client aborts during the download, the cache stops downloading the response. If the object is larger than the quick abort size, the cache continues to download the response.

Maximum value: 4194303

minResSize

Minimum size of a response that can be cached in this content group.

Default minimum response size is 0.

Maximum value: 2097151

maxResSize

Maximum size of a response that can be cached in this content group.

Default value: 80

Maximum value: 2097151

memLimit

Maximum amount of memory that the cache can use. The effective limit is based on the available memory of the NetScaler appliance.

Default value: 65536

ignoreReqCachingHdrs

Ignore Cache-Control and Pragma headers in the incoming request.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

minHits

Number of hits that qualifies a response for storage in this content group.

alwaysEvalPolicies

Force policy evaluation for each response arriving from the origin server. Cannot be set to YES if the Prefetch parameter is also set to YES.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: NO

persistHA

The option for IC objects to save objects to Secondary in a HA deployment. Set YES for IC to take this state.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: NO

pinned

The option for IC from flushing objects from this contentgroup under memory pressure. Set YES for IC to take this state.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: NO

lazyDnsResolve

Perform DNS resolution for responses only if the destination IP address in the request does not match the destination IP address of the cached response.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: YES

hitSelector

Selector for evaluating whether an object gets stored in a particular content group. A selector is an abstraction for a collection of PIXL expressions.

invalSelector

Selector for invalidating objects in the content group. A selector is an abstraction for a collection of PIXL expressions.

unset cache contentGroup¶

Use this command to remove cache contentGroup settings.Refer to the set cache contentGroup command for meanings of the arguments.

Synopsys¶

unset cache contentGroup <name> [-weakPosRelExpiry] [-heurExpiryParam] [-relExpiry] [-relExpiryMilliSec] [-absExpiry] [-absExpiryGMT] [-weakNegRelExpiry] [-hitParams] [-invalParams] [-ignoreParamValueCase] [-matchCookies] [-invalRestrictedToHost] [-pollEveryTime] [-ignoreReloadReq] [-removeCookies] [-prefetch] [-prefetchPeriod] [-prefetchPeriodMilliSec] [-prefetchMaxPending] [-flashCache] [-expireAtLastByte] [-insertVia] [-insertAge] [-insertETag] [-cacheControl] [-quickAbortSize] [-minResSize] [-maxResSize] [-memLimit] [-ignoreReqCachingHdrs] [-minHits] [-alwaysEvalPolicies] [-persistHA] [-pinned] [-lazyDnsResolve] [-hitSelector] [-invalSelector]

show cache contentGroup¶

Displays information about all content groups, or about the specified content group.

Synopsys¶

show cache contentGroup [<name>]

Arguments¶

name

Name of the content group about which to display information.

Outputs¶

flags

Flags.

type

The type of the content group.

relExpiry

The relative expiry time in seconds.

relExpiryMilliSec

Relative expiry time, in milliseconds, after which to expire an object cached in this content group.

absExpiry

Local time, up to 4 times a day, at which all objects in the content group must expire.

CLI Users:

For example, to specify that the objects in the content group should expire by 11:00 PM, type the following command: add cache contentgroup <contentgroup name> -absexpiry 23:00

To specify that the objects in the content group should expire at 10:00 AM, 3 PM, 6 PM, and 11:00 PM, type: add cache contentgroup <contentgroup name> -absexpiry 10:00 15:00 18:00 23:00

absExpiryGMT

Coordinated Universal Time (GMT), up to 4 times a day, when all objects in the content group must expire.

heurExpiryParam

Heuristic expiry time, in percent of the duration, since the object was last modified.

weakPosRelExpiry

Relative expiry time, in seconds, for expiring positive responses with response codes between 200 and 399. Cannot be used in combination with other Expiry attributes. Similar to -relExpiry but has lower precedence.

weakNegRelExpiry

Relative expiry time, in seconds, for expiring negative responses. This value is used only if the expiry time cannot be determined from any other source. It is applicable only to the following status codes: 307, 403, 404, and 410.

hitParams

Parameters to use for parameterized hit evaluation of an object. Up to 128 parameters can be specified. Mutually exclusive with the Hit Selector parameter.

invalParams

Parameters for parameterized invalidation of an object. You can specify up to 8 parameters. Mutually exclusive with invalSelector.

ignoreParamValueCase

Ignore case when comparing parameter values during parameterized hit evaluation. (Parameter value case is ignored by default during parameterized invalidation.)

matchCookies

Evaluate for parameters in the cookie header also.

invalRestrictedToHost

Take the host header into account during parameterized invalidation.

pollEveryTime

Always poll for the objects in this content group. That is, retrieve the objects from the origin server whenever they are requested.

ignoreReloadReq

Ignore any request to reload a cached object from the origin server.

To guard against Denial of Service attacks, set this parameter to YES. For RFC-compliant behavior, set it to NO.

removeCookies

Remove cookies from responses.

prefetch

Attempt to refresh objects that are about to go stale.

prefetchPeriod

Time period, in seconds before an object's calculated expiry time, during which to attempt prefetch.

prefetchPeriodMilliSec

Time period, in milliseconds before an object's calculated expiry time, during which to attempt prefetch.

prefetchCur

Current outstanding prefetches.

prefetchMaxPending

Maximum number of outstanding prefetches that can be queued for the content group.

flashCache

Perform flash cache. Mutually exclusive with Poll Every Time (PET) on the same content group.

expireAtLastByte

Force expiration of the content immediately after the response is downloaded (upon receipt of the last byte of the response body). Applicable only to positive responses.

insertVia

Insert a Via header into the response.

insertAge

Insert an Age header into the response. An Age header contains information about the age of the object, in seconds, as calculated by the integrated cache.

insertETag

Insert an ETag header in the response. With ETag header insertion, the integrated cache does not serve full responses on repeat requests.

cacheControl

Insert a Cache-Control header into the response.

quickAbortSize

If the size of an object that is being downloaded is less than or equal to the quick abort value, and a client aborts during the download, the cache stops downloading the response. If the object is larger than the quick abort size, the cache continues to download the response.

minResSize

Minimum size of a response that can be cached in this content group.

Default minimum response size is 0.

maxResSize

Maximum size of a response that can be cached in this content group.

memUsage

Current memory usage.

memDUsage

Current disk memory usage.

diskLimit

Maximum amount of disk that the cache can use. The effective limit is based on the available memory of the NetScaler appliance.

memLimit

Maximum amount of memory that the cache can use. The effective limit is based on the available memory of the NetScaler appliance.

ignoreReqCachingHdrs

Ignore Cache-Control and Pragma headers in the incoming request.

cacheNon304Hits

Cache non 304 hits.

cache304Hits

Cache 304 hits.

cacheCells

Number of cells.

cacheGroupIncarnation

Cache group incarnation.

minHits

Number of hits that qualifies a response for storage in this content group.

alwaysEvalPolicies

Force policy evaluation for each response arriving from the origin server. Cannot be set to YES if the Prefetch parameter is also set to YES.

persist

Setting persist to YES causes IC to save objects in contentgroup to disk.

persistHA

Setting persistHA to YES causes IC to save objects in contentgroup to Secondary node in HA deployment.

pinned

Do not flush objects from this content group under memory pressure.

lazyDnsResolve

Perform DNS resolution for responses only if the destination IP address in the request does not match the destination IP address of the cached response.

hitSelector

Selector for evaluating whether an object gets stored in a particular content group. A selector is an abstraction for a collection of PIXL expressions.

invalSelector

Selector for invalidating objects in the content group. A selector is an abstraction for a collection of PIXL expressions.

policyName

Active cache policies refering to this group.

cacheNumInvalPolicy

Number of active Invalidation policies refering to this group.

markerCells

Numbers of marker cells in this group.

builtin

devno

count

stateflag

expire cache contentGroup¶

Forces expiration of all the objects in the specified content group. The next request for any object in the group is sent to the origin server.

Synopsys¶

expire cache contentGroup <name>

Arguments¶

name

Name of the content group whose objects are to be expired.

flush cache contentGroup¶

Flush the objects in the specified content group.

Synopsys¶

flush cache contentGroup <name> [-query <string> | -selectorValue <string>] [-host <string>]

Arguments¶

name

Name of the content group from which to flush objects, or "all" to flush all content groups.

query

Query string specifying individual objects to flush from this group by using parameterized invalidation. If this parameter is not set, all objects are flushed from the group.

host

Flush only objects that belong to the specified host. Do not use except with parameterized invalidation. Also, the Invalidation Restricted to Host parameter for the group must be set to YES.

selectorValue

Value of the selector to be used for flushing objects from the content group. Requires that an invalidation selector be configured for the content group.

stat cache contentGroup¶

Displays a summary of cache group statistics.

Synopsys¶

stat cache contentGroup [<name>] [-detail] [-fullValues] [-ntimes <positive_integer>] [-logFile <input_filename>] [-clearstats ( basic | full )]

Arguments¶

name

Name of the cache contentgroup for which to display statistics. If you do not set this parameter, statistics are shown for all cache contentgroups.

detail

Specifies detailed output (including more statistics). The output can be quite voluminous. Without this argument, the output will show only a summary.

fullValues

Specifies that numbers and strings should be displayed in their full form. Without this option, long strings are shortened and large numbers are abbreviated

ntimes

The number of times, in intervals of seven seconds, the statistics should be displayed.

Default value: 1

Minimum value: 0

logFile

The name of the log file to be used as input.

clearstats

Clear the statsistics / counters

Possible values: basic, full

Outputs¶

count

devno

stateflag

Outputs¶

non304 Hits for Content group (non304hit)

Non304 hits for ContentGroup

304 Hits for Content group (304hit)

304 hits for ContentGroup

Number of objects in contentgroup (cell)

Number of objects in contentgroup

Number of marker objects in contentgroup (Mrkcell)

Number of marker objects in contentgroup

Number of times contentgroup is flushed (flushed)

Number of times contentgroup is flushed

current memory usage (CurMem)

current memory usage

maximum memory usage limit (MaxMem)

maximum memory usage limit

Example¶

stat cache contentgroup

save cache contentGroup¶

Save the objects in the specified content group.

Synopsys¶

save cache contentGroup <name> [-tosecondary ( YES | NO )]

Arguments¶

name

The name of the content group whose objects are to be save.

tosecondary

content group whose objects are to be sent to secondary.

Possible values: YES, NO

Default value: NO

cache contentGroup¶

add cache contentGroup¶

Synopsys¶

Arguments¶

rm cache contentGroup¶

Synopsys¶

Arguments¶

set cache contentGroup¶

Synopsys¶

Arguments¶

unset cache contentGroup¶

Synopsys¶

show cache contentGroup¶

Synopsys¶

Arguments¶

Outputs¶

expire cache contentGroup¶

Synopsys¶

Arguments¶

flush cache contentGroup¶

Synopsys¶

Arguments¶

stat cache contentGroup¶

Synopsys¶

Arguments¶

Outputs¶

Outputs¶

Example¶

Related Commands¶

save cache contentGroup¶

Synopsys¶

Arguments¶