test outbound UDP traffic from citrix netscaler

I needed a way to test outbound UDP traffic from citrix netscaler to prove traffic was working.

Normally I would use telnet for a quick TCP port check or the "nc" command but nc was not available on NetScaler and I could not install. I was able to test like so

Log into citrix netscaller

"shell" to get into CLI mode

echo -n "Test from 192.168.0.10" > /dev/udp/172.30.50.50/514

This sent UDP traffic from 192.168.0.10 (citrix) to 172.30.50.50 (logserver) on UDP port 514 (syslog)

I was able to see it arrive in my wireshark capture on 172.30.50.50