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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

Installation


After selecting the best matching deployment modes, it's time to start the installation. It always starts with configuration of the management interface for physical appliances or the accelerated bridge port for the virtual appliance.

The default management IP of the physical appliance is 192.168.100.1.

Some of the deployment modes require additional configuration settings in the Citrix CloudBridge appliance; for example, WCCP needs to be enabled as a feature before WCCP is supported.

In order to use the Citrix CloudBridge features, we need to install the license. The license could be installed on the appliance or from the Citrix License Server configured in your network.

Note

If your Citrix CloudBridge can access your Citrix License Server please use the remote license server. By using the Citrix License Server, all licenses are in one place instead of being installed on every appliance. This makes the renewal of the license far easier.

The license file will be registered on the...