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Also known as: CTX1732, CTX1732
About this class This course covers information administrators and other IT professionals will need to successfully configure, troubleshoot and support many of the advanced features available on Citrix NetScaler 7.0 and 8.0. Interactive instructor-led discussion and hands-on labs and exercises guide learners through administrator tasks preparing them to manage Citrix NetScaler 7.0 and 8.0 deployments. Who will the lesson benefit? This course is intended for system administrators or network operations personnel, who configure and administer Citrix NetScaler products. What delegates will learn Upon successful completion of this course, learners are able to perform the following: - Configure Global Server Load Balancing
- Configure integrated caching
- Configure advance load balancing
- Understand Advanced Policy Engine expressions
- Configure responder and rewrite features
- Secure the NetScaler system communication
- Configure monitoring with SNMP
- Configure advanced networking
- Implement troubleshooting procedures
What prerequisites are required 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, various networking protocols, and aspects of application and site architecture
- 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
- 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
- Attended one of the following basic operation courses NS-BOA Citrix NetScaler Basic Operations and Administration, or CTX-1730 Citrix NetScaler 8.0: Basic Operations, and CTX-1731 Citrix NetScaler 8.0: Administration
- Experience with Citrix NetScaler version 6.1, 7.0 or 8.0
Contents of this class Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) - Understanding the GSLB architecture
- Reviewing DNS and GSLB concepts
- Configuring traditional GSLB implementation
- Configuring proximity based GSLB implementation
Integrated caching - Understanding the integrated caching architecture
- Caching static and dynamic content
- Configuring cache policies
- Configuring cache content groups
Advanced Policy Engine - Understanding Advanced Policy Engine
- Understanding elements of a policy
Responder and Rewrite Features - Understanding responder and rewrite features
- Understanding processing flow with responder and rewrite
- Configuring basic policies and actions
- Understanding actions in detail
- Configuring Advanced Policy Engine processing: banks and targets
Advanced Load Balancing Topics - Understanding load balancing
- Configuring extended content verification monitors
- Understanding token and hashing based load balancing
- Understanding sessionless load balancing
Monitoring the NetScaler using Simple Network Management Protocol - Reviewing SNMP basics
- Polling SNMP statistics on the NetScaler system using Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG)
Securing the NetScaler - Securing NetScaler system communication
- Creating Access Control Lists
- Securing the NetScaler system using RPCNode
- Configuring external authentication
Advanced Networking -
- Understanding routing support on the NetScaler system
- Understanding Route Health Injection
- Understanding Reverse Network Address Translation (RNAT)
- Understanding Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
Advanced Troubleshooting - Reviewing NetScaler overview
- Understanding Nsconmsg and newnslog commands
- Understanding nstrace command
- Understanding statistics in the CLI
- Understanding statistics in the Dashboard
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