Citrix (NetScaler) ADC 12.x Essentials and Traffic Management (CNS-220) – Perfil

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Module 1: Getting Started

  • Introduction to the NetScaler System
  • TriScale
  • NetScaler Use Cases
  • NetScaler Functionality
  • NetScaler Overview
  • Product Features
  • NetScaler Operating System Overview
  • nCore Configuration Architecture
  • NetScaler File system
  • Deployment Scenarios
  • Logging in to the NetScaler System
  • NetScaler Licenses

Module 2: 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
  • Access Control Lists
  • Network Address Translation (NAT)

Module 3: NetScaler Platforms

  • Architecture and General Concepts
  • Hardware Platforms
  • Hardware Components
  • MPX Overview
  • VPX Overview
  • CPX Overview
  • SDX Overview
  • Identify the unique capabilities and functionality of the NetScaler SDX platform
  • Identify the networking characteristics of the NetScaler SDX platform
  • Explain the process of provisioning and administration of NetScaler VPX instances on a NetScaler SDX appliance

Module 4: High Availability

  • High Availability Functionality
  • High Availability Node Configuration
  • Propagation and Synchronization
  • Failover, Route Monitors, Fail Safe
  • Propagation, Synchronization
  • High Availability Management
  • Performing an Upgrade
  • Troubleshooting
  • Upgrading HA pair

Module 5: Load Balancing

  • Local Load Balancing concepts
  • Naming conventions
  • Persistence
  • Service Types
  • LB Methods
  • Disabling Entities
  • Diagnostics/Troubleshooting
  • L4 vs L7 for TCP services
  • UDP ping vs L7
  • Monitor attributes
  • Built in L7 monitors
  • Monitors from Scripts
  • EAV Monitors
  • ECV Monitors
  • DataStream

Module 6: SSL Offload

  • SSL and TLS
  • SSL Session Process
  • SSL Administration
  • SSL Offload Overview
  • SSL Attacks Overview
  • SSL Troubleshooting
  • Cipher Suites
  • Certificate Management
  • Feature and Benefits
  • Offload Performance
  • Deployment Scenarios
  • Citrix Recommendations for SSL

Module 7: Securing the NetScaler

  • NetScaler Communication Ports
  • Overview of AAA
  • Authentication on the NetScaler
  • NetScaler Users
  • Command Policies
  • Admin Partitions

Module 8: Monitoring, Management, and Troubleshooting

  • Monitoring Needs
  • NetScaler Log Management
  • Simple Network Management Protocol
  • AppFlow on the NetScaler System
  • NetScaler Insight Overview
  • NetScaler Command Center Overview
  • Network Traffic Capture using NSTRACE
  • Troubleshooting with Filter Expressions
  • Decoding SSL Traffic with Wireshark
  • Display NetScaler System Information
  • NetScaler Command Line Tools

Module 9: AppExpert Classic Policy Engine

  • Policies Overview
  • Expression Structures
  • Content Filtering
  • Content Filtering Actions
  • Content Filtering Rules

Module 10: 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

Module 11: Rewrite, Responder, and URL Transform

  • Configuring Rewrite Policies and Actions
  • Responder Actions
  • Respond with
  • Responder Action for Timeouts
  • Responder Policies
  • Responder HTML Page Imports
  • Binding Policies
  • URL Transformation
  • URL Transformation Actions
  • Binding of URL Transformations

Module 12: Content Switching

  • Introduction to 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
  • Content-Switching Rule Precedence With Priority Specifiedery

Module 13: Global Server Load Balancing

  • DNS overview and records
  • GSLB Deployment Methods
  • GSLB Concepts
  • GSLB Entities
  • GSLB DNS Methods
  • Metric Exchange Protocol
  • Viewing and Configuring GSLB with the Visualizer
  • GSLB Persistence

Module 14: Optimizing Traffic

  • Introduction to Compression
  • Frontend Optimization
  • Surge Queue
  • TCP Optimization
  • HTTP Optimization

Module 15: Clustering (Optional)

  • How Clustering Works
  • Cluster Synchronization
  • Cluster Communication Interfaces
  • Striped and Spotted IP Addresses
  • Traffic Distribution
  • Cluster and Node States
  • NetScaler Cluster Set up
  • Dynamic Configuration for a Cluster Link Aggregation Group
  • NetScaler Cluster Management
  • NetScaler Cluster Troubleshooting