CNS-205 Citrix NetScaler 10 Essentials and Networking

Getting Started

• Introduction to the NetScaler System
• NetScaler Functionality
• NetScaler Overview
• Product Features
• Hardware Platforms
• Hardware Components
• nCore Configuration Architecture
• Deployment Scenarios
• Logging on to the NetScaler System
• NetScaler Licenses
• Performing an Upgrade

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
• Network Address Translation (NAT)

High Availability

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

Securing NetScaler

• NetScaler System Communication
• Access Control Lists
• Access Control List Configuration
• Detailed Access Control List Configuration
• Users, Groups, and Command Policies
• External Authentication for System Users
• Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing (AAA) Issues
• Authentication Troubleshooting

Basic Load Balancing

• Load Balancing Basics
• Entity Management
• Server Creation
• Services Configuration Overview
• Virtual Server Creation
• Binding Virtual Servers to Services or a Service Group
• Traffic Types
• Service Monitoring
• Persistence and Persistence Connections
• Load-Balancing Configuration Protection
• Advanced Services Options
• Maintaining of Client Connection for Multiple Client Requests
• Specified Source IP Addresses for Back-end Communication Using Network Profiles
• Disabling Services
• Graceful Shutdown of Services
• Removing Services
• Configuration Verification
• The Load-Balancing Visualizer
• Configuring Load Balancing for DataStream
• Link Load Balancing
• Configuration of Sessionless Load-Balancing Virtual Servers
• Load-Balancing Issues
• Use of Telnet or Monitors to Check Ports

SSL Offload

• SSL
• SSL Session Process
• Feature and Benefits
• Offload Performance
• Digital Certificates
• SSL Administration
• SSL Offload Overview
• Deployment Scenarios
• Citrix Recommendations for SSL
• SSL Renegotiation Attack
• SSL Troubleshooting
• Intermediate Certificate Not Linked

Global Server Load Balancing

• GSLB Deployment Methods
• GSLB Concepts
• GSLB Entities
• GSLB DNS Methods
• Metric Exchange Protocol
• Implementing GSLB
• Viewing and Configuring GSLB with the Visualizer
• Configuring Site-to-Site Communication
• RPC Node Password
• Encryption of Site Metrics Exchange
• Source IP Address for an RPC Node
• GSLB Site Communication Example
• Customizing the GSLB Configuration
• Changing the GSLB Method
• GSLB Persistence
• Using Dynamic Weights for Services
• Monitoring GSLB Services
• Binding Monitors to a GSLB Service
• Monitoring GSLB Sites
• Protecting the GSLB Setup Against Failure
• Responding with an Empty Address Record When DOWN
• Backup IP Address Configuration for a GSLB Domain
• Implementing GSLB Failover for Disaster Recovery

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 Transformation

• Rewrite, Responder, and URL Transform
• Configuring Rewrite Policies and Actions
• Responder Actions
• Respondwith
• 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
• Understanding 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
• Binding Content-Switching Policies
• Content-Switching Rule Precedence Without Priority Specified
• Content-Switching Rule Precedence With Priority Specified
• Configuring Content Switching for DataStream

Optimizing Traffic

• Introduction to Compression
• Action Analytics
• AppExpert Templates
• Terminiology
• Deploying NetScaler for an Application
• Application Example
• AppExpert Template Deployment

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
• To Configure a Cluster Link Aggregation Group Statically
• Dynamic Configuration for a Cluster Link Aggregation Group
• NetScaler Cluster Management
• NetScaler Cluster Troubleshooting

Monitoring and Management

• Monitoring Needs
• NetScaler Log Management
• Simple Network Management Protocol
• To Configure SMNPv1 and SMNPv2
• AppFlow on the NetScaler System
• AppFlow Collectors and EdgeSight Monitoring
• AppFlow Actions and EdgeSight Monitoring Responder Policies
• Third-Party Collectors
• Network Traffic Capture using NSTRACE
• Troubleshooting with Filter Expressions
• Decoding SSL Traffic with Wireshark
• Display NetScaler System Information

Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA)

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CCA for Citrix NetScaler 10

Exam: A28 Citrix NetScaler 10 Essentials and Networking