Situation: Rolling pool upgrade was greyed out for the two XenServer 6.0.2 hosts I had in a resource pool. The option to tick and select them all existed – but wouldnt ‘stick’ Solution: Simple one this one – it was more me being dense. Need to make sure your XenCenter console is first upgraded to the […]
Situation The OS was built and running fine on my SHuTTLE SH67 32GB, i7 CPU Vmware 5.1.0 box. Steps The moment i tried to copy a ISO (smaller files seemed to be ok) to or from the Windows 8.1 machine the entire ESXi box would PSOD. Connecting from the *.1 to a XenServer machien to […]
The Netscaler advanced Endpoint Analysis checks are quite literally only available with version 10.1.120.1316.e It doesnt mean this version and greater, just this specific version. So if you are after the funky Advanced EPA scanning and cant enable or find it anywhere. 1) you have to run this version 10.1.120.1316.e of the netscaler firmware, 10.1.120.1316.e 2) you […]
Follow this one at your own risk, it hasn’t been thoroughly tested other than testing the fact the storefront site has actually been ‘removed’ so the end user is prompted to install / log in again. Scenario: Client upgrading from 1.2 storefront, wanted to change names or url, store and cert. Wanted 2.1 storefront. Didnt […]
My (non exhaustive) list of helpful Netscaler session policies expressions for EPA. SCAN REGISTRY (Advanced free-form) CLIENT.REG(‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\Tcpip\\Parameters_Domain’).VALUE == domain.local CLIENT.REG(‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_64\\SOFTWARE\\McAfee\\AVEngine_AVDatVersion’).VALUE == 6198. CLIENT.REG(‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\McAfee\\AVEngine_AVDatVersion’).VALUE == 6198. CHECK FOR FILE EXISTENCE CLIENT.FILE(‘C:\\WindowsCompany_Laptop.txt’) CHECK FOR RUNNING PROCESS CLIENT.APPLICATION.PROCESS(firewall.exe) EXISTS CHECK OS VERSION (Match any expresssion) CLIENT.OS(winxp).SP == 2 CLIENT.OS(win7) EXISTS DETECT (or not) CITRIX RECEIVER (Match any) REQ.HTTP.HEADER […]
Situation: After an upgrade of our VPX devices to FW 10.1.121.10 intermittent authentication issues appeared for the access gateway users. They would simply fail the LDAP bind, yet all monitors would be green with all services up. Our radius and LDAP authentication point internally to a LB VIP on the Netscaler first before connecting to the individual […]
Situation: We upgraded our Netscaler VPX from 10.0.70.7 to 10.0.76.7 and we were then unable to authenticate to the netscaler console using our LDAP credentials and users were unable to authenticate at the Access Gateway pages. Solution: During the VPX upgrade the Netscaler truncated the first 2 characters of each line of the Authentication server […]
Whilst this is relatively self explanatory there are a few things around doing this that are useful to know Log into the SDX and go to Configuration > Management Service > Backup Files > Action > Factory Reset You will be presented with the following three options Explained here: Reset (Without Network Configuration)—Retain the IP addresses […]
Situation: We restored a ns.conf file to a Citrix Netscaler VPX running on an Netscaler SDX platform, however the device didnt come back online and the instance remained RED on the SDX interface. Typically the ipaddress of the SDX XenServer is 1 greater than the host By default the SDX SVM (Management Service) will be […]
My Logic Project Files are saved directly to my Google Drive on my macbook. I have obviously had an error with the synchronisation of a logic X project file and when trying to open it received the error The file “Projectinformation.pslist” couldn’t be opened because the is no such file. Resolution: I havent tested this […]