Citrix NetScaler Install, Configure And Manage

Citrix NetScaler Essentials and Traffic Management 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