Detailed 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
Authentication and Authorization
- System and AAA Users Groups
- External Authentication
- Authentication Actions and Policies
- Authentication Configuration
- Supported Authentication Types
Access Policies
- Endpoint Analysis
- Policy, Profiles, and Expressions
- Pre-Authentication Policies and Profiles
- Post-Authentication Policies
- Endpoint Analysis Troubleshooting
End-User Access and Experience
- Connection Methods
- Endpoint Session Policies Settings
- Timeout Settings
- RDP Proxy
- Clientless Access
- VLAN Options
Gateway Services Load Balancing
- SSL Offload Overview
- Traffic Types
- Ldap, HDX, StoreFront Load Balancing
- Extended Content Verification (ECV) Monitoring
Integrating NetScaler with XenApp and XenDesktop
- Required Firewall Rules
- Web Interface or StoreFront Integration with NetScaler Gateway
- WebFront Overview
- Session Policies
Unified Gateway
- NetScaler Unified Gateway Overview
- NetScaler Unified Gateway Reference Architecture Review
- Unified Gateway Key Features
- Unified Gateway Topologies