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Course Overview - This 2-day course covers the administration of Citrix(R) NetScaler(R) 8.0 features, including load balancing, SSL offload, policy engine expressions, content filtering, compression, content switching, auditing and logging, and monitoring.
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Audience - This course is intended for system administrators or network operations personnel who install, configure and administer Citrix NetScaler products.
Skills Gained - Upon successful completion of this course, learners are able to perform the following:
- Create servers and services
- Configure health checks
- Create load balancing virtual servers
- Enable persistence
- Configure advanced load balancing options
- Identify common SSL deployments
- Create, upload and bind certificates
- Configure advanced SSL offload options
- Configure policy engine expressions
- Bind content filter actions
- Configure compression policies
- Create and bind content switching virtual servers and policies
- Configure auditing
- Configure client IP address insertion
- Configure monitoring using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Prerequisites - Preparatory Recommendations:
- Before taking this course, Citrix recommends that learners have the following:
- Intermediate knowledge of TCP/IP and HTTP protocols and understanding of the OSI model
- Experience with network devices (e.g. routers, switches), various networking protocols, and
- aspects of application and site architecture (e.g. DMZ, VLANS)
- Moderate exposure to UNIX (particularly BSD variants)
- Exposure to basic systems administration concepts, including logging, software upgrade procedures and high availability operations
- Familiarity with web server software (e.g. Apache, IIS, WebSphere)
- 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 (e.g. firewalls, worms, DDoS
- attacks)
- Citrix also recommends the following books for learners who would like to strengthen their understanding of networking and web concepts prior to attending the course:
- Web Protocols and Practice by Balachander Krishnamurthy and Jennifer Rexford
- Load Balancing Servers, Firewalls, and Caches by Chandra Kopparapu
Skills Gained Configuring Load Balancing -
- Introduction to Load Balancing
- Managing Entities
- Creating Servers and Services
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- Service Monitoring
- Introducing Monitor Parameters
- Configuring HTTP Monitor
- Configuring ECV Monitors0
- Configuring HTTP-INLINE Monitors3
- Configuring Monitors Using the Configuration Utility
- Configuring Monitors Using the CLI
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- Load Balancing Virtual Servers
- Configuring Virtual Server Service Types
- Configuring Load Balancing Methods
- Binding Load Balancing Entities
- Configuring Session Persistence
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- Advanced Load Balancing Options
- Configuring Load Monitors
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- Service and Virtual Server Management
- Configuring SSL Offload
- SSL and Digital Certificates
- SSL Offload
- Server Certificates
- SSL Deployment Decisions
- Front-End SSL with Backend HTTP
- Front-End SSL with Backend SSL
- Front-End SSL_TCP with Backend TCP
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- SSL Administration
- Generating a Key
- Generating a Certificate Signing Request
- Generating a Certificate for Testing
- Installing a Certificate
- Binding a Certificate
- Configuring Advanced SSL Settings
- Configuring Policy Engine Expressions
- Introduction to Policies
- Policy Types and Their Uses
- Expression Structures
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- Policy Syntax
- Understanding HTTP and HTTPS Traffic
- Identifying Qualifiers
- Identifying Operators
- Understanding Operands, Wildcards and Context-Sensitive Fields
- Configuring Content Filtering
- Introduction to Content Filtering
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- Filter Actions
- Configuring Content Filters and Identifying Actions
- Binding Filters
- Configuring Compression
- Compression Benefits
- Compression Policies
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- Associated Compression Actions
- Configuring Content Switching
- Introduction to Content Switching
- Content Switching Virtual Servers
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- Content Switching Policies
- Binding Content Switching Policies to Content Switching Virtual Servers
- Auditing and Logging
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- Syslog and Nslog Auditing
- Configuring Audit Servers
- Configuring Global Auditing Parameters
- Configuring Auditing Policies
- Binding Auditing Policies
- Viewing Recent Audit Messages
- Viewing Historical Audit Messages
- Client IP Address Insertion
- NetScaler Log Management
Examinations Related Certification - CCA for Citrix NetScaler 8 Exams 731 - Citrix NetScaler 8.0: Administration
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