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Basic Administration for Citrix NetScaler 9.0

Course Code: CNS200-1I
Day(s): 5
Price: £1,545.00 (ex. VAT)

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Overview 

The course covers the initial configuration and administration of Citrix NetScaler 9.0. Learners gain an understanding of NetScaler features such as load balancing, SSL offload, classic and advanced expressions, rate limiting and AppExpert templates. Interactive instructor-led discussion and hands-on labs and exercises guide learners through administrator tasks preparing them to manage Citrix NetScaler 9.0 deployments.


Pre-Requisites

Before taking this course, Citrix recommends that learners have the following:

• Intermediate knowledge of TCP/IP and HTTP protocols and an understanding of the OSI model

• Experience with network devices such as routers and switches, various networking protocols and aspects of application and site architecture such as DMZ and VLANS

• Moderate exposure to UNIX or Linux

• Exposure to basic systems administration concepts, including logging, software upgrade procedures and high availability operations

• Familiarity with web server software such as Apache, IIS or WebSphere

• Basic knowledge of DNS, SSL, and compression concepts

• Understanding of concepts related to server load balancing and content switching

• Knowledge of network security threats and site protection concepts such as firewalls, worms, DDoS attacks



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October
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    This course is intended for system administrators or network operations personnel, who configure and administer Citrix NetScaler products.

    Upon successful completion of this course, learners are able to perform the following:

    • Identify deployment considerations and network placement options

    • Perform an initial configuration

    • Identify NetScaler-owned IP addresses

    • Configure virtual local area networks (VLANs)

    • Configure reverse network address translation (RNAT)

    • Configure access control lists

    • Configure high availability

    • Configure load balancing

    • Configure SSL offload

    • Configure NetScaler features using classic policy expressions, including:

    Content filtering

    Content switching

    Compression

    • Perform auditing and logging

    • Perform monitoring

    • Configure global server load balancing (GSLB)

    • Configure NetScaler features using advanced policy expressions, including:

      o Rewrite

      o Responder

      o URL transformation

      o Integrated caching

      Configure rate limiting

      • Configure AppExpert templates

      • Troubleshoot NetScaler configurations

    Provided is the topic outline for CNS-200-1I.

      • Introducing and Deploying Citrix NetScaler

        • NetScaler Request Switching
        • Product Features
        • Identifying NetScaler 9.0 Enhancements
        • Product Editions
        • Hardware Platforms
        • Hardware Components
        • Deployment Scenarios
        • Identifying Deployment Considerations
        • Identifying Network Placement Options
    • Performing an Initial Configuration

        Management Connectivity

        NetScaler Administrative Tools

        Using the Configuration Utility

        Using the Command-Line Interface

        Monitoring the NetScaler System

        Managing System Functions Through FreeBSD

        Using Third-Party Tools

        NetScaler System Installation

        Logging in to the NetScaler System

        Setting up the NetScaler System

        Changing the Password

        Performing Initial Configuration

        Saving the Configuration

        Enabling Network Time Protocol

        NetScaler Management

        Performing an Upgrade

        Managing Licensing

        Enabling NetScaler Features

        Managing Role-Based Administration

        NetScaler System Communication

        Security Management

        Securing Internal Services

        Configuring Secure System Access

    • • Networking

        Introduction to NetScaler Networking

        NetScaler-Owned IP Addresses

        Routing Traffic Using Layer 3 Mode

        Switching Traffic Using Layer 2 Mode

        Sending a Client IP Address to Servers

        Virtual Local Area Networks

        Network Address Translation

    • 2

        Configuring Reverse Network Address Translation

        Access Control Lists

        Configuring Access Control Lists

        Link Aggregation Control Protocol

    • Configuring High Availability

        Introduction to High Availability

        High Availability Node Configuration

        Configuring Nodes

        Verifying High Availability Status

        Propagation and Synchronization

        Performing a Forced Failover

        High Availability Management

        Failover Interface Set

    • • Configuring Load alancing

        Load-Balancing Topology

        Entity Management

        Creating Servers

        Creating Services

        Creating Virtual Servers

        Creating Entity Templates

        Service Monitoring

        Identifying Monitor Parameters

        Performing HTTP Monitoring

        Load-Balancing Methods

        Service Weights

        Entity Binding

        Session Persistence

        Other Load-Balancing Options

        Other Load-Balancing Methods

        Load Balancing Visualizer

    • • Monitoring and Maintaining Load Balancing

        Load-Balancing Traffic Types

        Extended Content Verification (ECV) Monitors

        Performing HTTP-INLINE Monitoring

        Setting Monitor Thresholds

        Token and Hashing-Based Load Balancing

        Configuring Load Monitors

        Service and Virtual Server Management

        Troubleshooting Load-Balancing

    • • Configuring SSL Offload

        SSL and Digital Certificates

        SSL Offload

        Server Certificates

        SSL Deployment Decisions

        Deploying Front-End SSL with Back-End HTTP

        Deploying Front-End SSL with Back-End SSL

        Deploying Front-End SSL_TCP with Back-End TCP

        Deploying SSL_BRIDGE

        SSL Administration

        Generating a Key

        Generating a Certificate Signing Request

        Generating a Certificate for Testing

        Creating a Certkey

        Binding a Certkey

        Advanced SSL Settings

    • • Configuring Content Filtering Using Classic Policies

        Policy Basics

        HTTP and HTTPS Traffic

        Expression Structures

    • 3

        Qualifiers, Operators and Expression Values

        Identifying Simple Expressions

        Identifying Compound Expressions

        Introduction to Content Filtering

        Filter Actions

        Configuring Content Filtering

        Binding Filters

    • • Configuring Content Switching

        Introduction to Content Switching

        Content-Switching Virtual Servers

        Content-Switching Policies

        Binding Content-Switching Policies

    • • Configuring Compression

        Introduction to Compression

        Compression Parameters

        Compression Policies

        Configuring Compression Policies

    • • Auditing and Logging

        Syslog and Nslog Auditing

        Configuring Audit Servers

        Configuring Global Auditing Parameters

        Configuring Auditing Policies

        Binding Auditing Policies

        Viewing Audit Messages

        NetScaler Log Management

    • • Monitoring

        Simple Network Management Protocol

        SNMPv1 and SNMPv2

        Configuring SNMP Managers

        Configuring the MIB System Variables

        Configuring SNMP Community Strings

        Configuring SNMP Traps

        Configuring SNMP Alarms

        SNMPv3

        Dashboard

        Identifying the Dashboard Components

        Navigating the Dashboard

        Customizing the Built-in Comparative Charts Pane

        Customizing the Group Monitoring Pane

        Reporting Tool

        Monitoring Tool

    • • Configuring Global Server Load Balancing

        GSLB Concepts

        Defining Metric Exchange Protocol Communication

        Introducing GSLB Persistence

        Introducing GSLB Site Affinity

        DNS Concepts

        Configuring DNS Virtual Servers

        Configuring Service Type DNS

        Introducing Authoritative DNS Service

        Introducing GSLB DNS Response Options

        GSLB Configurations

        Implementing Traditional GSLB

        Implementing GSLB Failover for Disaster Recovery

        Implementing Proximity-Based GSLB

        Configuring GSLB (Command-Line Interface)

        Configuring GSLB Services (Configuration Utility)

        Configuring ADNS

        Synchronizing GSLB Configurations Automatically

    • 4 • Using Advanced Policies

        NetScaler Policy Overview

        Understanding Packet Processing Flow

        Understanding Policies

        Identifying Advanced Policy Expressions

        Advanced Policy Expression Syntax

        Actions

        Policy Bindings

        Understanding Bind Points

        Using the Policy Manager

        Understanding Policy Labels

        Using Pattern Sets

        Typecasting

    • • Configuring Rewrite, Responder and URL Transformation

        Rewrite, Responder and URL Transformation Overview

        Identifying Packet Processing Flow

        Basic Configurations: Policies and Actions

        Configuring Rewrite Actions

        Configuring Rewrite Policies

        Understanding Responder Actions

        Configuring Responder Policies

        Configuring URL Transformation

        Troubleshooting URL Transformation

    • • Configuring Integrated Caching

        Integrated Caching Architecture

        Static and Dynamic Content

        Request and Response Process Flow

        Cache Policies

        Cache Policy Evaluation

        Making Graceful Configuration Changes

        Cache Content Groups

        Controlling Content Aging

        Content Group Settings

        Enabling FlashCache

        Setting Global Attributes

        Managing Caching

        Caching Examples

    • • Configuring Rate Limiting

        Rate Control

        Identifying Rate-Limiting Components

        Configuring Rate Control

        Rate Control Policy Scenarios

    • • Configuring AppEpert Templates

        AppExpert Templates

        Using the Application Interface

        Planning for Applications

        AppExpert Template Deployment

        Viewing Application Template Statistics

    • • Troubleshooting the NetScaler

        NetScaler System Overview

        Logged Information

        Accessing Logged Information

        Network Traffic Capture

        Statistics

    This course prepares students for exam 1Y0-A11 Basic Administration for Citrix NetScaler 9.0.

    Enables hands-onpractice on key product features, including high availability, load balancing, SSL offload, content filtering, content switching and compression

    Includes select exercises from CNS-200-1I Basic Administration for Citrix NetScaler 9.0. Provides open practice environment in which any aspect of thetechnology can be configured and exercised


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