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Mastering NetScaler VPX

By : Marius Sandbu, Andy Paul
Book Image

Mastering NetScaler VPX

By: Marius Sandbu, Andy Paul

Overview of this book

Citrix NetScaler is one of the best Application Delivery Controller products in the world. The Application Delivery Controllers are commonly used for load balancing purposes, to optimize traffic, and to perform extra security settings. This book will give you an insight into all the available features that the Citrix NetScaler appliance has to offer. The book will start with the commonly used NetScaler VPX features, such as load balancing and NetScaler Gateway functionality. Next, we cover features such as Responder, Rewrite, and the AppExpert templates, and how to configure these features. After that, you will learn more about the other available Citrix technologies that can interact with Citrix NetScaler. We also cover troubleshooting, optimizing traffic, caching, performing protection using Application Firewall, and denying HTTP DDoS attacks for web services. Finally, we will demonstrate the different configuration principles real-world Citrix NetScaler deployment scenarios.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering NetScaler VPX™
Notice
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Using the Features of NetScaler® AppExpert

AppExpert's features are one of the most used features available in Citrix NetScaler. Most of AppExpert's features are included in the Citrix NetScaler Standard licensing. With AppExpert's features, we're able to make adjustments too, for example, HTTP headers and prevent services for Denial-of-Service (DOS) attacks. Citrix NetScaler offers seamless compatibility with your infrastructure through configuration templates for key Microsoft applications and built-in system center integration. Setup wizards and AppExpert templates make integrating and configuring NetScaler with Microsoft technologies easy. These extensible templates provide preconfigured policies for advanced optimizations, such as caching and compression. They even replicate the exact configurations that your business needs by modifying existing templates.

NetScaler has been validated to enhance user experience with these applications, whether they are accessed locally or...