Tag: NetScaler
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Configuring NetScaler for audit logging
In today’s security-conscious environment, maintaining comprehensive audit logs and integrating them with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems is crucial. Citrix NetScaler (formerly known as Citrix ADC) provides robust syslog capabilities that can be leveraged to enhance your organization’s security posture and compliance efforts. Understanding NetScaler’s Audit Logging Capabilities NetScaler generates various types of…
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Upgrading a Standalone NetScaler and HA enabled NetScalers
Firstly, Standalone NetScaler isn’t the ideal NetScaler setup. Not having a resilient NetScaler configuration is considered almost criminal these days. But, hey it doesn’t always work like that in the real world. Does it? There will be an outage when upgrading a standalone appliance, and there is no other way around it. Prep Login to…
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NetScaler VPX monitor error – Timeout during SSL handshake stage
I came across this by accident while setting up NetScaler GSLB for a Citrix solution for one of my customers. The service groups in NetScaler were giving an error message for the monitoring probes – https and CITRIX-XD-DDC (both secure). The NetScaler was VPX running 11.1.63.9nc firmware. Last response: failure – Time out during SSL…
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How to verify that NetScaler COOKIEINSERT persistent sessions are working?
Cookie-based persistence is one of the most common methods used in NetScaler deployments to maintain session affinity between clients and backend servers. COOKIEINSERT persistence is particularly useful in web applications where you need to ensure that a client continues to connect to the same server for the duration of their session. This guide will walk…
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NetScaler Commands – Obtain Running Processes ( NetScaler’s Task Manager)
Here is how to get to the task manager equivalent tool on NetScalers. This is quite useful to check who is running what and how much resources are consumed. Use your favorite SSH tool and connect to the management IP of the NetScaler >shell top The output should look like the below Now, you must…
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