Citrix Netscaler 10 Essentials for ACE Migration

Training Course Content Getting Started

• NetScaler Overview
• Introduction to the NetScaler System
• NetScaler Functionality
• NetScaler Operating System Overview
• Hardware Platforms
• Hardware Components
• Planning a NetScaler Deployment
• Deployment Scenarios
• TriScale
• NetScaler Configuration
• Logging in to the NetScaler System
• NetScaler Licenses

Basic Networking

• OSI Networking Model
• NetScaler Architecture Overview
• Packet Forwarding
• NetScaler-Owned IP Addresses
• NetScaler IP Address
• Sending a Client IP Address to Servers
• Virtual Local Area Networks
• Network Address Translation

Basic Load Balancing

• Load Balancing Basics
• Configure Basic Load Balancing
• Services Configuration Overview
• Virtual Servers Creation
• Services Bound to a Virtual Server
• Configuration Verification
• Load-Balancing Methods
• Service Weights
• Session Persistence Methods
• Service Level Monitors

High Availability

• High Availability Functionality
• High Availability Node Configuration
• Propagation and Synchronization
• High Availability Management

Policies and Expressions

• Policies Overview
• Policy Basics
• Basic Policy Components
• About Policy Bindings
• Policy Priorities
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• Expression Structures
• Wildcards
• Context-Sensitive Fields
• Simple Expressions
• Compound Expressions
• Advanced Policy Conversion

Content Switching

• Introduction to Content Switching
• Understanding Content Switching
• Configure a Load-Balancing Setup for Content Switching
• Content-Switching Policies
• Content-Switching Rule Precedence Without Priority Specified
• Content-Switching Rule Precedence With Priority Specified
• Connection Tuning
• IPv6
• DNS and the NetScaler
• IP Routing
• Link Load Balancing
• SIP Load Balancing
• Custom Load
• Persistence and Persistence Connections
• Load-Balancing Configuration Protection
• Load-Balancing Setup Management
• Traffic Management

Global Server Load Balancing

• GSLB Deployment Methods
• GSLB Concepts
• GSLB DNS Methods
• Implementing Static GSLB
• Metric Exchange Protocol
• Configuring Site-to-Site Communication
• Customizing the GSLB Configuration
• GSLB Persistence
• Monitoring GSLB Services
• Protecting the GSLB Setup Against Failure
• Implementing GSLB Failover for Disaster Recovery

Clustering

• Features supported by Clustering
• How Clustering Works
• Cluster Synchronization
• Cluster Connections
• Cluster Communication Interfaces
• Striped and Spotted IP Addresses
• Traffic Distribution
• Cluster and Node States
• NetScaler Cluster Set up
• NetScaler Cluster Traffic Distribution Mechanisms
• NetScaler Cluster Management
• NetScaler Cluster Troubleshooting

Security and Authentication

• SSL
• SSL Administration
• SSL Keys
• Digital Certificates
• Certificate Signing Request
• SSL Certificates
• Certificate Generation
• Certificate Key Pairs
• NetScaler System Communication
• Front-end SSL
• Front-end SSL_TCP
• Securing Traffic
• SSL_Bride
• SSL Termination Points
• SSL Offload
• Configuring SSL Offload
• Advanced SSL Settings
• Hardware Compliance
• Authentication Setup
• AAA for Traffic Management
• SAML 2.0 Consumer Support
• Enhanced NTLMv2 Support
• Authentication Policy Creation
• Single Sign-on Setup
• LDAP Authentication
• Detailed Access Control Lists Configuration
• Extended Access Control Lists
• Creation and Removal of Access Control Lists
• SYN, SSL Renegotiation, TLS Man-in-the-Middle, and DoS Protection
• Client Traffic Management Based on Traffic Rate

Rewrite, Responder, and URL Transformation

• Understanding Packet Processing Flow
• Understanding Policies
• Policy Process Evaluation Flow
• Identifying Advanced Policy Expressions
• Actions
• Understanding Bind Points
• Understanding Policy Labels
• Pattern Sets
• Typecasting
• Rewrite, Responder, and URL Transform
• Configuring Rewrite Policies and Actions
• Configuring Responder Policies and Actions
• Configuring URL Transformation Policies and Actions

Optimizing Traffic

• Introduction to Compression
• Integrated Caching
• Reverse-Proxy-Cache Configuration
• Content Groups
• Cache Selectors and Policies
• Caching Static and Dynamic Content
• Request and Response Process Flow
• Cache Policies and Cache Expressions
• Action Analytics
• Evaluation Order
• Built-In Policies
• Graceful Cache Configuration Changes
• Cache Content Groups
• FlashCache
• Caching Management
• AppExpert Templates
• Terminology
• Methodology
• Advanced Monitoring
• Monitoring Needs
• Simple Network Management Protocol
• Dashboard
• Citrix Command Center
• Reporting Tools
• NetScaler Log Management
• Audit Logging
• Configuring NetScaler for Audit Logging
• Configuring an Audit Logging Server
• Global Auditing Parameters
• Configuring Auditing Policies
• Monitoring Methods
• Reporting Tools
• Monitoring Needs
• Simple Network Management Protocol
• To Configure SMNPv1 and SMNPv2
• AppFlow on the NetScaler
• AppFlow Collectors and EdgeSight Monitoring
• AppFlow Actions and EdgeSight Monitoring
• Third-Party Collectors

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting Methodology
• Troubleshooting Resources
• Troubleshooting Tools
• Troubleshooting Network Issues
• Troubleshooting Hardware Issues
• Load Balancing Issues
• Authentication, Authorization, and Access (AAA) Issues
• SSL Troubleshooting
• SSL Offload Troubleshooting
• Policy Troubleshooting
• High Availability Troubleshooting

ACE Migration

• Review of Cisco Load Balancers and Terminology
• Application Delivery Networking Overview Terminology
• Cisco Load Balancing Terminology
• Physical Deployments
• Cisco Data Centre Integration
• Networking Terminology
• Deploying NetScaler to replace ACE
• SSL Service Options
• Choosing the appropriate NetScaler replacement hardware
• Best design and deployment practices
• How to port a ACE deployment to a NetScaler platform
• ACE Conversion Tool (ACT)
• Translating CLI from ACE to NetScaler
• Added customer benefits