139 articles tagged “citrix”
If all your backend web servers go down, you can have the NetScaler serve a maintenance page directly. Beats browser timeouts and keeps users informed.
Not sure which edition is on your NetScaler VPX? Here are three quick ways to check (Licenses UI, license file, and CLI) instead of guessing from feature availability.
Here's the exact Responder Policy expression and 301 redirect action to force all HTTP traffic to HTTPS on a NetScaler, sitewide, without touching individual vservers.
If you need to verify SSLv2 and weak ciphers are disabled for PCI or SOX, here are four tools that work across IIS, Apache, NetScaler, and F5 BigIP.
If you're getting broken chain warnings on your NetScaler, you need to install and link the root and intermediate CAs properly. Here's how to do it right.
If your NetScaler SNIP is masking real client IPs in IIS logs, you can insert the true client IP via a custom HTTP header and ISAPI filter. No USIP mode needed.
The NetScaler GUI only updates every 7 seconds, which isn't real-time. Use nsconmsg and connectiontable over SSH for accurate live traffic, connections, and throughput stats.
If you need to wipe a corrupted NetScaler to a truly factory-new state, the standard config wipe isn't enough. Here's the serial console procedure that deletes everything.
If your NetScaler HA nodes have mismatched dates, you'll get cookie persistency failures during failover. Here's how to check and sync FreeBSD system time via SSH.
Here's how to reset a NetScaler to factory defaults using 'clear ns config level'. I'll walk through basic, extended, and full levels so you know exactly what gets wiped.
Here's how to upgrade NetScaler firmware on MPX, VPX, and legacy appliances. Upload the .tgz via WinSCP, extract, and run the install script over SSH.
NetScaler and Cisco appliances need your SSL cert in PEM format. Here's how to generate the CSR from IIS and use OpenSSL to convert the .pfx to .pem.
If your OpenSolaris VM shows no IP in XenCenter, you need the Linux guest agent installed so the VM can pass network info to the hypervisor. Quick fix.
