Citrix NetScaler Install, Configure And Manage

Citrix NetScaler Essentials and Traffic Management Course Outline

Getting Started

• Introduction to the NetScaler System
• TriScale
• NetScaler Use Cases
• NetScaler Functionality
• NetScaler Overview
• Product Features
• NetScaler Operating System Overview
• nCore Configuration Architecture
• NetScaler File system
• Deployment Scenarios
• Logging in to the NetScaler System
• NetScaler Licenses

Basic Networking

• OSI Networking Model
• NetScaler Architecture Overview
• NetScaler-Owned IP Addresses
• Network Topology
• NetScaler Network Interfaces
• Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)
• IP Routing
• Determining the Source IP Address
• Packet Forwarding
• Use Source IP Mode
• Client-IP HTTP Header Insertion
• Path MTU Discovery
• Link Aggregation
• Access Control Lists
• Network Address Translation (NAT)

NetScaler Platforms

• Architecture and General Concepts
• Hardware Platforms
• Hardware Components
• MPX Overview
• VPX Overview
• CPX Overview
• SDX Overview
• Identify the unique capabilities and functionality of the NetScaler SDX platform
• Identify the networking characteristics of the NetScaler SDX platform
• Explain the process of provisioning and administration of NetScaler VPX instances on a NetScaler SDX appliance

High Availability

• High Availability Functionality
• High Availability Node Configuration
• Propagation and Synchronization
• Failover, Route Monitors, Fail Safe
• Propagation, Synchronization
• High Availability Management
• Performing an Upgrade
• Troubleshooting
• Upgrading HA pair

Load Balancing

• Local Load Balancing concepts
• Naming conventions
• Persistence
• Service Types
• LB Methods
• Disabling Entities
• Diagnostics/Troubleshooting
• L4 vs L7 for TCP services
• UDP ping vs L7
• Monitor attributes
• Built in L7 monitors
• Monitors from Scripts
• EAV Monitors
• ECV Monitors
• DataStream

SSL Offload

• SSL and TLS
• SSL Session Process
• SSL Administration
• SSL Offload Overview
• SSL Attacks Overview
• SSL Troubleshooting
• Cipher Suites
• Certificate Management
• Feature and Benefits
• Offload Performance
• Deployment Scenarios
• Citrix Recommendations for SSL

Securing the NetScaler

• NetScaler Communication Ports
• Overview of AAA
• Authentication on the NetScaler
• NetScaler Users
• Command Policies
• Admin Partitions

Monitoring, Management, and Troubleshooting

• Monitoring Needs
• NetScaler Log Management
• Simple Network Management Protocol
• AppFlow on the NetScaler System
• NetScaler Insight Overview
• NetScaler Command Center Overview
• Network Traffic Capture using NSTRACE
• Troubleshooting with Filter Expressions
• Decoding SSL Traffic with Wireshark
• Display NetScaler System Information
• NetScaler Command Line Tools

AppExpert Classic Policy Engine

• Policies Overview
• Expression Structures
• Content Filtering
• Content Filtering Actions
• Content Filtering Rules

AppExpert Default Policy Engine

• Understanding Packet-Processing Flow
• Understanding Policies
• Policy Process Evaluation Flow
• Identifying Default Policy Expressions
• Actions
• Understanding Bind Points
• Understanding Policy Labels
• Pattern Sets
• Typecasting

Rewrite, Responder, and URL Transform

• Configuring Rewrite Policies and Actions
• Responder Actions
• Respond with
• Responder Action for Timeouts
• Responder Policies
• Responder HTML Page Imports
• Binding Policies
• URL Transformation
• URL Transformation Actions
• Binding of URL Transformations

Content Switching

• Introduction to Content Switching
• Content Switching Based on Network Characteristics
• Content-Switching Virtual Servers and Load-Balancing Virtual Servers
• Configuring Content-Switching Virtual Servers
• Configure a Load-Balancing Setup for Content Switching
• Content-Switching Policies
• Content-Switching Rule Precedence With Priority Specified

Global Server Load Balancing

• DNS overview and records
• GSLB Deployment Methods
• GSLB Concepts
• GSLB Entities
• GSLB DNS Methods
• Metric Exchange Protocol
• Viewing and Configuring GSLB with the Visualizer
• GSLB Persistence

Optimizing Traffic

• Introduction to Compression
• Frontend Optimization
• Surge Queue
• TCP Optimization
• HTTP Optimization

Clustering (Optional)

• How Clustering Works
• Cluster Synchronization
• Cluster Communication Interfaces
• Striped and Spotted IP Addresses
• Traffic Distribution
• Cluster and Node States
• NetScaler Cluster Set up
• Dynamic Configuration for a Cluster Link Aggregation Group
• NetScaler Cluster Management
• NetScaler Cluster Troubleshooting