Plink and Citrix Netscalers

Our global Citrix infrastructure contains multiple Netscalers load balancers situated worldwide.  However not all regions run the same apps.  The issue is our US call center does a shift change and cannot access a published application due to being directed to the wrong application portal page from the load balancer.  The resource they are trying to use doesn't have access to it from our EU and AS NS.

First, I'm not experienced with Citrix and Netscalers but been tasked to perform the documented steps when escalations come in.  There's a script already to run on a schedule that our EU team has done but I didn't ask to see their script and some times it still slips through.

I wrote this script to be used in Powershell ISE and you must have Plink downloaded. 

The first command is loaded into a variable and the Do While loop is to run the command again until the variable is null.  Most instances it runs the commands 3 to 4  times.  I've tested it on all the NS that this works right after the last deletion a sh command via Putty to verify doesn't show anything. 


$route =./plink.exe -ssh nsroot@host -pw PASSWORD "sh persistentSessions ""
Do {./plink.exe -ssh nsroot@host -pw PASSWORD "clear persistentSessions ""} while (!$route)