Netscaler Troubleshooting Guide（Paperback）

Employ NetScaler to diagnose and resolve the commonly reported issues you face and boost your performance

About This Book

• This easy-to-follow guide will walk you through troubleshooting issues in AAA for traffic management
• Explore commonly seen issues with the various features of NetScaler, including load balancing, content switching, GSLB, and SSL and get to know the ways to identify and troubleshoot them
• Get an in-depth look at the tools available to easily debug a NetScaler deployment

Who This Book Is For

This book is a must for NetScaler administrators who are responsible for configuring and managing NetScaler deployments to help them fix all of the issues prevalent in NetScaler and take their skills to the next level. A basic understanding of NetScaler is a prerequisite.

What You Will Learn

• Troubleshoot core NetScaler features such as load balancing, SSL offloading, GSLB, and content switching
• Identify compression and caching related issues and find possible solutions
• Fix the various authentication problems such as LDAP, RADIUS, certificate-based authentication, Kerberos, and SAML
• Explore and diagnose common networking issues
• Find and fix the NetScaler platform issues that pertain to memory, disk, and other system level issues
• Examine the roadblocks in the NetScaler application firewall and determine the effectiveness of the firewall
• Understand the common NetScaler Gateway and SSL VPN problems
• Detect issues in other supporting products such as Command Center and Insight Center

In Detail

NetScaler is a true Swiss-army knife in the application delivery world. With a single 2U appliance, you have the ability to offer highly customizable load balancing, SSL, application security, and SSL VPNs. At the same time, it can scale to several thousands of servers and millions of connections, which would otherwise need several different products.

This book teaches you where to look under the hood of NetScaler when you encounter issues.

This books helps you explore the NetScaler System before delving into individual features, pitfalls and troubleshooting. You begin by exploring the file system and the important files and folders, and get some necessary background information. We take a look at the troubleshooting tools that are indispensable for a NetScaler administrator, before diving into the individual features, the commonly reported issues, and how to resolve these issues.

You will then get a look at the troubleshooting features that large multisite enterprises typically use, including load balancing, content switching, SSL offload, and GSLB. To optimize those deployments, you'll learn about caching and compression.Then, we explore how AAA options modify the flow of packets through NetScaler. Further, you will learn how to deal with networking and security pitfalls that you might run into as you connect up the NetScaler.

Finally, we finish by looking at troubleshooting Command Center and Insight Center-products that ease the monitoring and management of NetScaler at scale.