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Troubleshooting NetScaler

By : Raghu Varma Tirumalaraju
Book Image

Troubleshooting NetScaler

By: Raghu Varma Tirumalaraju

Overview of this book

NetScaler is a high performance Application Delivery Controller (ADC). Making the most of it requires knowledge that straddles the application and networking worlds. As an ADC owner you will also likely be the first person to be solicited when your business applications fail. You will need to be quick in identifying if the problem is with the application, the server, the network, or NetScaler itself. This book provides you with the vital troubleshooting knowledge needed to act fast when issues happen. It gives you a thorough understanding of the NetScaler layout, how it integrates with the network, and what issues to expect when working with the traffic management, authentication, NetScaler Gateway and application firewall features. We will also look at what information to seek out in the logs, how to use tracing, and explore utilities that exist on NetScaler to help you find the root cause of your issues.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Troubleshooting NetScaler
Credits
Notice
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

NetScaler Gateway™ integration with XenMobile®


XenMobile is Citrix's Enterprise Mobile Management suite. It allows enterprises to maintain better control over how their IT users interact with company data, when connected through either company-provided or employee-owned mobile devices. The importance of such a solution is easy to see when you consider how ubiquitous mobile devices have become and also how they offer better on the run access to information, something hugely important to the mobile workforce of today.

Before we dive into troubleshooting XenMobile integration, let's look at some fundamentals.

XenMobile components

From an integration perspective, the key components are as follows:

  1. The XenMobile Server, a Linux virtual machine which is an amalgamation of the following:

    • The AppController service, which provides mobile application management, but also acts as an STA for ticketing

    • The MDM service, which provides mobile device management

  2. The WorxHome component, which is the application...