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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

Authentication


By default the Citrix NetScaler Insight Center authentication method uses the LOCAL user database. Citrix NetScaler Insight Center also supports external authentication services such as LDAP, RADIUS, and TACACS. The configuration is the same on Citrix NetScaler. But if we want LDAP authentication as the default we need to change the default value.

  1. Navigate to System | Authentication.

  2. Click Authentication Configuration.

  3. Set the following parameters:

    • Server Type: Type of authentication server configured for user authentication

    • Server Name: Name of the authentication server configured

    • Enable fallback local authentication: This functionality can be enabled if you like to have support for local authentication when the external authentication fails

  4. Click OK.

Insight deployment management

Insight deployment management will be used to add more agents, connectors, and database nodes because, if we want to save a lot of information, there should be enough resources to actually save it. In...