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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

Analyzing issues using Citrix® Insight Services


Citrix Insight Service is a free cloud service from Citrix that allow us to upload detailed logging information and configuration from NetScaler and scan it against a set of rules to see if there are any issues or best-practices that we have not configured. It is also often used in conjunction with Citrix support cases; Citrix will often tell you to upload data to Insight Services before they can continue troubleshooting.

In order to generate log files for Citrix Insight Services, we need to go into System | Diagnostics, and then from there click on Generate support file. Or we can use the command:

show techsupport

This will generate a tar.gz under the folder /var/tmp/support/collector_ip_data.tar.gz, which can be downloaded to a local machine using for instance WinSCP or any other FTP-based client.

Note

You can also enable a feature called Call Home, which will allow NetScaler to automatically upload a tech support tar.gz to Insight Services in...