ICA Only: If you don’t have enough Citrix Gateway Universal licenses installed for all of your Gateway users, then we can use ICA Only option. This option disables SmartAccess and VPN features but does not require any additional licenses. Note: most Citrix ADC Editions come with built-in Gateway Universal Licenses. If we dont need smartaccess,…
NetScaler SmartControl: SmartControl allows administrators to define granular policies to configure and enforce user environment attributes for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops on Citrix Gateway. SmartControl allows administrators to manage these policies from a single location, rather than at each instance of these server types. SmartControl is implemented through ICA policies on Citrix Gateway. Each…
Photo by Thomas Jensen on Unsplash Connection multiplexing is a method of reusing connections to avoid the overhead on the server that comes with establishing new connections for each request. Connection multiplexing support in Citrix ADC ensures that server connections are efficiently reused, which results in dramatically reduced SSL/TLS load on back-end servers. Q: What is the connection…
Important Points: What is the process to upgrade the firmware in GSLB configuration? If your GSLB is in Active-Active configuration, you can pick any NetScaler in your GSLB environment and upgrade the firmware. While a particular NetScaler is rebooting, you can go to Traffic Management, GSLB, Sites and check which node is down. After…
NetScaler NSIP shows a white page on the browser while using a custom theme: Note: Below steps work only when using a custom theme. /var/netscaler/gui/admin_ui – folder will have files and folders required to load the GUI admin portal when you connect to NSIP via the browser. When you upgrade your firmware to the next…
Mostly, all the companies that use Citrix NetScaler Gateway, want to customize their NetScaler Gateway URL, like changing the logo, background image, Titles, etc. All of this can be done with a theme and Citrix has a direct way of doing this, by creating something called a portal theme. You can go to this option…
Today’s complex Web configurations often require different responses to HTTP requests that appear, on the surface, to be similar. When users request a webpage, you may want to provide a different page depending on the user’s geographical location, browser specification, or languages the browser accepts, and the order of preference. You might want to drop…
Interview question: All the services assigned to Netscaler vserver are up. But still, vserver is showing as “DOWN” state. Why? This article contains the probable reasons for the status of a virtual server being marked as DOWN on NetScaler. Status of NetScaler Virtual Servers The virtual servers on a NetScaler appliance can have any of…
If you want to test Netscaler gateway authentication or if you’re testing a Netscaler gateway theme, but don’t want to spin up servers for storefront and DDCs, you can enable the client choices option in Netscaler so that users are presented with some default client choices when they login to Netscaler gateway portal. Client choices…
If you want to install a test certificate on Netscaler to use it with Netscaler gateway or storefront, use the below commands. You will still get certificate error warnings but your Netscaler gateway or storefront load-balanced URL will work. In the below commands, change company.lab to your domain name (like homelab.local). If you need a…