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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

The Citrix® Command Center


The Citrix Command Center will be used to manage and monitor all Citrix NetScaler, Citrix NetScaler SDX platform, and Citrix CloudBridge appliances.

The Citrix Command Center delivers a unified console for management, and also provides the IT engineer/manager with real-time performance monitoring for Citrix NetScaler and Citrix CloudBridge environments. Some of the benefits are:

  • Centralized management of a NetScaler infrastructure

  • Automated configuration for multiple systems

  • Advanced performance monitoring and reporting

  • Global management of system events and alarms

  • Delegated user administration with complete audit information

  • Centralized SSL certificate management

  • Centralized change management

Besides monitoring, the Citrix Command Center allows IT engineers to easily manage multiple devices, whether the appliances are distributed globally or reside in a datacenter. With the Citrix Command Center we can easily create management tasks that need to be run often. Also the...