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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

NetScaler® Insight Center


Citrix NetScaler Insight Center will be used to monitor and report on Citrix NetScaler and Citrix CloudBridge appliances. Citrix NetScaler Insight Center can be used for Web Insight, HDX Insight, and for WAN Insight. Web Insight will be used for HTTP analytics, HDX Insight will be used for monitoring ICA traffic and WAN Insight will give us information about the efficiency of the optimized traffic. Also Citrix NetScaler Insight Center will be used to monitor, diagnose, and subsequently improve the performance of business-critical applications and is essential to ensuring a positive user experience and maintaining the highest levels of employee productivity and customer satisfaction.

Licensing

Depending on the configured Citrix NetScaler license, Insight Center will save the information.

The following table describes Web Insight license/version information. As you can see, Web Insight is free and doesn't require a special license to get information from HTTP traffic...