Overview This course provides the foundation to manage, configure and monitor advanced features and components of Citrix NetScaler 9.0 Platinum Edition. Interactive discussion and hands-on labs guide learners through advanced administration tasks such as troubleshooting, configuring application security with the Citrix Application Firewall™ feature, tuning the NetScaler for high traffic, configuring Authentication Authorization and Accounting for system management, and configuring Advanced Policies using service callouts. Advanced monitoring and management tasks such as configuring and using EdgeSight™ for NetScaler, Command Center, and NetScaler Web Logging are also covered. Prior NetScaler knowledge is strongly recommended.
Pre-Requisites
- Before taking this course, Citrix recommends that learners have the following knowledge and experience:
- Experience with configuring NetScaler systems, including an understanding of services, virtual servers, and policies
- Experience with network devices, such as routers and switches, various networking protocols and aspects of application and site architectures (such as DMZs and VLANs)
- Knowledge of network security threats and site protection concepts such as firewalls, worms, and DDoS attacks
- Understanding of concepts related to monitoring and management including basics of SNMP
- Attended one of the following courses:
- CNS-200-1I - Basic Administration for Citrix NetScaler 9.0
- NS-BOA Citrix NetScaler Basic Operations and Administration
- CTX-1730 Citrix NetScaler: Basic Operations, and CTX-1731 Citrix NetScaler: Administration
- Or, equivalent experience with Citrix NetScaler version 6.1, 7.0, 8.0, 8.1 or 9.0
Next Course Dates
Dates available on request. Please contact us
More Information
This course is intended for system administrators or network operations personnel, who configure and
administer Citrix NetScaler products.
- Identify common web attacks and vulnerabilities
- Write PERL compatible regular expressions
- Configure Citrix Application Firewall™ 9.0 to protect web applications
- Troubleshoot Citrix Application Firewall 9.0
- Install and configure Citrix EdgeSight for NetScaler to monitor web application performance
- Install, configure, and use Citrix Command Center to manage NetScaler devices
- Configure and use additional advanced features of NetScaler 9.0 including NetScaler Web
- Logging, HTTP Callout, and AAA authentication for web applications
Advanced Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Resources
- NetScaler System Overview
- nCore Configuration Architecture
- Built-In Tools
- Third-Party Tools
Introducing Application Firewall
- Application Attack
- The Benefits of Application Firewall
- Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
- Profiles and Policies
Profiles and Policies
- Profiles
- Policies
- Engine Settings
Regular Expressions
- Regular Expressions
- Forms of Regular Expressions
- Using Regular Expressions
- Metacharacters and Literal Characters
- Metacharacters
- Escapes
- Quantifiers
- Backreferencing
- Lookaheads
- Regular Expression Scope
Attacks and Protections
- Security Checks
- HTTPS Web Application
- Buffer Overflow Exploit
- Buffer Overflow Protection
- Parameter Manipulation
- Server Misconfiguration
- Deny URL Protection
- SQL Injection
- HTML SQL Injection Protection
- Command Injection
- Field Format Protection
- Cookie Tampering and Poisoning
- Cookie Consistency Protection
- Form/Hidden Field Manipulation
- Form Field Consistency Protection
- Forceful Browsing
- Start URLs
- Backdoors and Misconfigurations
- URL Closure
- Identity Theft Attacks
- Credit Card Protection
- Protecting Credit Cards
- Errors Triggering Sensitive Information Leaks
- Safe Object Protection
Application Firewall Troubleshooting
- Application Firewall and Applications
- Configuration Issues
Queuing and Connection Tuning
- HTTP Connections
- HTTP Connection Management and NetScaler HTTP Behavior
- TCP Buffering
- Surge Queue
- Surge Protection
- Priority Queuing
- HTTP Denial-of-Service Protection
- IP Rate Limiting
Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing
- Users, Groups and Command Policies
- External Authentication for System Users
- AAA for Traffic Management
- Configuration
- Audit Logging
HTTP Service Callouts
- HTTP Callouts
- Configuring HTTP Callouts
- HTTP Callout Use Cases
EdgeSight for NetScaler
- Data Flow Overview
- JavaScript Response Injection
- EdgeSight for NetScaler Server Components
- EdgeSight for NetScaler Installation Considerations
- Reporting Services Initial Configuration
- EdgeSight Charts and Reports
- EdgeSight Troubleshooting
Command Center
- Command Center Introduction
- Command Center Clients
- Server Requirement
- Port Setting Requirements
- Command Center Functionality
- Command Center Administration
- Command Center Troubleshooting
NetScaler Web Logging
- NetScaler Web Logging Introduction
- NetScaler System Configuration
- NSWL Client Installation
- NSWL Client Configuration
- Troubleshooting Web Logging