Source: Giphy When users complain that they are experiencing slowness in their VDIs, there are some points to check within in citrix. If you have Citrix ADM (Application Delivery Management) installed and configured, you should see users sessions and bandwidth details in ADM. You may see high ICA RTT even though users say that they…
If you go to “Netscaler Gateway” and “Monitoring connections” you will see, “Active user sessions” and “ICA Connections”. The former shows users who have authenticated against the gateway, and the latter is those who have an ICA connection open through the gateway. The lists could be different as a user might have timed out on…
Citrix came up with a software called BLX using which you can configure netscaler adc features very easily. BLX is software version of ADC that runs on linux machine. You can download and install this BLX software from citrix and install it in your linux machine and configure it. So far we have seen other…
Follow below steps to load balance citrix delivery controllers with netscaler: Make sure you have snip configured in netscaler. Create monitor using monitor type as citrix-xd-ddc. You can configure interval and time-out values if you need. Check validate credentials check box and enter your citrix site, service account credentials. Goto servers option and add all…
Netscaler is an Application delivery controller which is used for Load balancing, Http compression, SSL Offloading(which is useful for web servers),content switching, application acceleration, application firewall and more. A NetScaler appliance is usually deployed in front of a server farm and functions as a transparent TCP proxy between clients and servers, without requiring any client-side…
The OSI, or Open System Interconnection, model defines a networking framework for implementing protocols in seven layers. Control is passed from one layer to the next, starting at the application layer in one station, proceeding to the bottom layer, over the channel to the next station and back up the hierarchy. Easy Way to Remember…
Hubs, switches, routers, and access points are all used to connect computers together on a network, but each of them has different capabilities. Hubs Hubs enable computers on a network to communicate. Each computer plugs into the hub with an Ethernet cable, and information sent from one computer to another passes through the hub. A…
Netscaler is available in either a hardware or software based appliance. Hardware options, MPX and SDX include single and multi-tenant devices, in addition to FIPS compliant and high SSL throughput appliances. Software-based options, VPX and CPX include virtual hypervisor-based and containerized microservice offerings. MPX: Available in burst packs and pay-as-you go grow options. Supports more…
Understanding NetScaler IP Addresses Basic Networking: Netscaler owned IP addresses: Netscaler IP (NSIP), MIP (Mapped IP), SNIP (Subnet IP), VIP (Virtual IP), GSLB site IP, Cluster IP. NetScaler IP (NSIP) address: The NSIP address (NetScaler IP Address) is the IP address which is used by the Administrator to manage and configure the NetScaler. It is…
On older Netscaler appliances, the command to clear your Netscaler configuration and reset it to factory defaults used to be: clear config –c y But on newer devices, the command is: clear ns config level where level is one of the following: 1. basic – which clears everything except NSIP, MIPs, SNIPs, network settings, HA,…