- Provided is the topic outline for CNS-203-3:
Introducing and deploying Citrix NetScaler
- Introduction to the NetScaler systems
- Planning a NetScaler deployment
- Deployment scenarios
- NetScaler platform and product editions
- Product features
- Hardware platforms and components
- NetScaler architecture overview
- Initial NetScaler access
Networking
- NetScaler-owned IP addresses
- NetScaler modes
- Network address translation
- Virtual local area networks
- Link Aggregation
- Internet Control Message Protocol
- Path MTU discovery
- Dynamic routing support and route health injection
Configuring high availability
- Introduction to high availability
- High availability node configuration
- Propagation and synchronization
- High availability management
Securing the NetScaler system
- NetScaler system communication
- Access control lists
Configuring load balancing
- Load-balancing process
- Entity management
- Load-balancing traffic types
- Service monitoring
- Load-balancing topology, methods, and additional options
- Advanced load balancing methods
- Link load balancing
- Custom load
- Load monitor process
- Service and virtual server management
- Load Balancing Visualizer
Configuring SSL offload
- SSL and digital certificates
- SSL concepts
- SSL offload overview
- Offload performance
- SSL administration and deployment decisions
- Deployment scenarios
- Configuring SSL offload
- Creating an SSL virtual server
- Advanced SSL settings
Configuring Global Server Load Balancing
- GSLB concepts
- Metric exchange protocol
- GSLB DNS methods
- GSLB persistence
- Configuring DNS virtual servers
- GSLB configuration
- Implementing traditional GSLB, proximity-based GSLB, and GSLB failover for disaster recovery
- GSLB entity relationship
- GSLB site communication example
Using AppExpert Classic to optimize traffic
- Policy overview and basics
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- Expression structures
- Content filtering
- Introduction to compression
Using AppExpert for responder, rewrite, and URL transform
- Understanding the packet processing flow
- Actions
- Understanding bind points
- Using pattern sets
- Typecasting
- Rewrite, responder, and URL transformation overview
- Identifying packet processing flow
- Basic configurations: policies and actions
- Configuring rewrite actions
- Rewrite policies
- Responder actions and policies
- Configuring URL transformation
Using AppExpert for content switching
- Introduction to content switching
- Configuring content-switching virtual servers
- Rule-based policy example
Using AppExpert Advanced to optimize traffic
- Compression with advanced policy expressions
- Integrated caching
- Cache policies and cache expressions
- Graceful cache configuration changes
- Cache content groups and aging
- Content group settings
- FlashCache
- Global cache attributes
- Caching management
- AppExpert templates
- Policy-based routing
Management
- Simple Network Management Protocol
- SNMPv3
- Dashboard
- Reporting and monitoring tools
- Auditing and logging
- Configuring an auditing server
- Global auditing parameters
- Configuring auditing policies
- NetScaler log management
- Replacing a high availability node
- Upgrading as a standalone NetScaler system
- Upgrading a high availability pair
- Password recovery
- Network traffic capture using NSTCPDUMP
- TCPDUMP options and filter expressions
- Network traffic capture using NSTRACE.SH
- NSTRACE options and filter expressions
The CNS-203-2W course has an additional NetScaler 9.3 Features module with the following topics:
Citrix NetScaler 9.3 Features
- New NetScaler 9.3 Features
- AppFlow
- Branch Repeater load balancing
- Remote Desktop Protocol load balancing
- Database load balancing
- OpenCloud Bridge
- Citrix Application Firewall enhancements
- DNS Security Extensions