Course Description
Overview
This course will provide the foundational concepts and advanced skills necessary to implement, configure, secure, monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot a Citrix Netscaler system from within a networking framework.
Who Should Attend
This course is recommended for learners* who are: ? New to the NetScaler platform ? Currently networking professionals *For administrators interested in integrating NetScaler as an access gateway, please refer CAG-200 Implementing Citrix Access Gateway 9.0 Enterprise Edition.
Agenda
Outline
Lesson 1: 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
Lesson 2: 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
Lesson 3: 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
Lesson 4: High Availability
- High Availability Functionality
- High Availability Node Configuration
- Propagation and Synchronization
- High Availability Management
Lesson 5: 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
Lesson 6: 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
Lesson 7: 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
Lesson 8: 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
Lesson 9: 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
Lesson 10: 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
Lesson 11: 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
Lesson 12: 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
Lesson 13: 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
Lesson 14: 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
Comments
Virtual CNS-205-1 Citrix NetScaler 10 Essentials and Networking Online Live training option
Imagine an industry-leading classroom training experience from wherever you have access to the Internet.
The Virtual Online Live events listed here gives you an effective and proven online virtual learning experience with the freedom to attend virtually from anywhere.
There is also an option of experiencing Online Live from one of the many national partner centers where a computer and headset will be provided for you.
This rich and engaging virtual classroom environment lets you conveniently interact with instructors and other students.
You will hear and see your instructor as they teach the course and answer your questions via voice or text.
Choose the online live virtual training option and you can access the recorded version even after the class has finished.
The onDemand labs give you access to the same client and server technologies covered in class so you can test, apply and hone your skills by accessing the labs before and even after the class.
Technical Requirements: a computer or laptop with a modern browser and high speed internet access along with one or two monitors.