Upon successful completion of this course, learners are able to:

• Identify the capabilities and functionality of the NetScaler
• Explain basic NetScaler network architecture
• Obtain, install, and manage NetScaler licenses
• Explain how SSL is used to secure the NetScaler
• Implement NetScaler TriScale Technology, including Clustering
• Configure advanced load balancing and GSLB on the NetScaler system
• Optimize the NetScaler system for traffic handling and management.
• Customize the NetScaler system for traffic flow and content-specific requirements
• Demonstrate monitoring and reporting through native NetScaler logging tools
• Employ recommended tools and techniques to troubleshoot common NetScaler network and connectivity issues

 

CNS-205 prepares you for 1Y0-350 exam, Citrix NetScaler 10 Essentials and Networking, a requirement for Citrix Certified Professional - Networking (CCP-N) certification. Designed for Network Engineers, this certification validates the knowledge and skills needed to implement, manage and optimize Citrix NetScaler 10 for networking performance and optimization Students should note CCA-N is not a prerequisite for the CCP-N

This course is recommended for learners* who are:

• New to the NetScaler platform
• Currently networking professionals

*For administrators interested in integrating NetScaler Gateway, please refer to CNS-207 Implementing Citrix   NetScaler 10 for App and Desktop Solutions. 

Before taking this course, it is recommended that learners have professional networking knowledge. They need not have a NetScaler background as such. For customers already using the NetScaler for load balancing, the course will provide in depth training on load balancing and other related traffic management/optimization features allowing users to go beyond basic load balancing.

 

Course Outline

• Getting Started
  • Introduction to the NetScaler System
  • NetScaler Functionality
  • NetScaler Overview
  • Product Features
  • NetScaler Operating System Overview

• Hardware Platforms
• Hardware Components
• nCore Configuration Architecture
• Deployment Scenarios
• Logging in to the NetScaler System
• NetScaler Licenses
• Performing an Upgrade

• Basic Networking
  • OSI Networking Model
  • NetScaler Architecture Overview
  • NetScaler-Owned IP Addresses
  • Network Topology
  • NetScaler Network Interfaces
  • Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)
  • IP Routing
  • Determining the Source IP Address
  • Packet Forwarding
  • Use Source IP Mode
  • Client-IP HTTP Header Insertion
  • Path MTU Discovery
  • Link Aggregation
  • Network Address Translation (NAT)
• High Availability
  • High Availability Functionality
  • High Availability Node Configuration
  • Propagation and Synchronization
  • High Availability Management
• Securing NetScaler
• NetScaler System Communication
  • Access Control Lists
  • Access Control List Configuration
  • Detailed Access Control List Configuration
  • Users, Groups, and Command Policies
  • External Authentication for System Users
  • Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing (AAA) Issues
  • Authentication Troubleshooting
• Basic Load Balancing
  • Load Balancing Basics
  • Entity Management
  • Server Creation
  • Services Configuration Overview
  • Virtual Server Creation
  • Binding Virtual Servers to Services or a Service Group
  • Traffic Types
  • Service Monitoring
  • Persistence and Persistence Connections
  • Load-Balancing Configuration Protection
  • Advanced Services Options
  • Maintaining of Client Connection for Multiple Client Requests
  • Specified Source IP Addresses for Back-end Communication Using Network Profiles
  • Disabling Services
  • Graceful Shutdown of Services
  • Removing Services
  • Configuration Verification
  • The Load-Balancing Visualizer
  • Configuring Load Balancing for DataStream
  • Link Load Balancing
  • Configuration of Sessionless Load-Balancing Virtual Servers
  • Load-Balancing Issues
  • Use of Telnet or Monitors to Check Ports
• SSL Offload
  • SSL
  • SSL Session Process
  • Feature and Benefits
  • Offload Performance
  • Digital Certificates
  • SSL Administration
  • SSL Offload Overview
  • Deployment Scenarios
  • Citrix Recommendations for SSL
  • SSL Renegotiation Attack
  • SSL Troubleshooting
  • Intermediate Certificate Not Linked
• Global Server Load Balancing
  • GSLB Deployment Methods
  • GSLB Concepts
  • GSLB Entities
  • GSLB DNS Methods
  • Metric Exchange Protocol
  • Implementing GSLB
  • Viewing and Configuring GSLB with the Visualizer
  • Configuring Site-to-Site Communication
  • RPC Node Password
  • Encryption of Site Metrics Exchange o Source IP Address for an RPC Node o GSLB Site Communication Example o Customizing the GSLB Configuration o Changing the GSLB Method
  • GSLB Persistence
  • Using Dynamic Weights for Services
  • Monitoring GSLB Services
  • Binding Monitors to a GSLB Service
  • Monitoring GSLB Sites
  • Protecting the GSLB Setup Against Failure
  • Responding with an Empty Address Record When DOWN
  • Backup IP Address Configuration for a GSLB Domain
  • Implementing GSLB Failover for Disaster Recovery
• AppExpert Classic Policy Engine
  • Policies Overview
  • Expression Structures
  • Content Filtering
  • Content Filtering Actions
  • Content Filtering Rules
• AppExpert Default Policy Engine
  • Understanding Packet-Processing Flow
  • Understanding Policies
  • Policy Process Evaluation Flow
  • Identifying Default Policy Expressions
  • Actions
  • Understanding Bind Points
  • Understanding Policy Labels
  • Pattern Sets
  • Typecasting
  • Rewrite, Responder, and URL Transformation
• Rewrite, Responder, and URL Transform
  • Configuring Rewrite Policies and Actions
  • Responder Actions
  • Respondwith
    • Responder Action for Timeouts
    • Responder Policies
    • Responder HTML Page Imports
    • Binding Policies
    • URL Transformation
    • URL Transformation Actions
    • Binding of URL Transformations

• Content Switching
  • Introduction to Content Switching
  • Understanding Content Switching
  • Content Switching Based on Network Characteristics
  • Content-Switching Virtual Servers and Load-Balancing Virtual Servers
  • Configuring Content-Switching Virtual Servers
  • Configure a Load-Balancing Setup for Content Switching
  • Content-Switching Policies
  • Binding Content-Switching Policies
  • Content-Switching Rule Precedence Without Priority Specified
  • Content-Switching Rule Precedence With Priority Specified
  • Configuring Content Switching for DataStream
• Optimizing Traffic
  • Introduction to Compression
  • Action Analytics
  • AppExpert Templates
  • Terminiology
  • Deploying NetScaler for an Application
  • Application Example
  • AppExpert Template Deployment
• Clustering
  • How Clustering Works
  • Cluster Synchronization o Cluster Connections
  • Cluster Communication Interfaces o Striped and Spotted IP Addresses
  • Traffic Distribution
  • Cluster and Node States
  • NetScaler Cluster Set up
  • NetScaler Cluster Traffic Distribution Mechanisms
  • To Configure a Cluster Link Aggregation Group Statically
  • Dynamic Configuration for a Cluster Link Aggregation Group
  • NetScaler Cluster Management
  • NetScaler Cluster Troubleshooting
• Monitoring and Management
  • Monitoring Needs
  • NetScaler Log Management
  • Simple Network Management Protocol
  • To Configure SMNPv1 and SMNPv2
  • AppFlow on the NetScaler System
  • AppFlow Collectors and EdgeSight Monitoring
  • AppFlow Actions and EdgeSight Monitoring Responder Policies
  • Third-Party Collectors
  • Network Traffic Capture using  NSTRACE
  • Troubleshooting with Filter Expressions  
  • Decoding SSL Traffic with Wireshark
  • Display NetScaler System Information

 

Duration: 5 days
Price: $5000

The Citrix NetScaler 10.5 Essentials and Networking course, CNS-205 provides the foundational concepts and advanced skills necessary to implement, configure, secure, monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot a Citrix NetScaler system from within a networking framework. This course is designed specifically for learners who have limited or no previous NetScaler experience. In order to successfully complete this course, learners will have access to hands-on exercises within a virtual lab environment.

This course is based on the Citrix NetScaler 10.5 product, but the skills and fundamental concepts learned are common to earlier product versions.