Creating a NetScaler LDAP Authentication Policy for Administrators In this walkthrough we will create an LDAP policy for administrators of the NetScaler and point this new policy to our singular, private, internal Microsoft AD LDAP server. This will involve creating a server to bind to (i.e. telling the NetScaler what server to communicate with for […]
Step Description Screenshot Click on the Console button to get access to the VM console Your NetScaler should be finished initializing and prompting for an IPv4 Address as part of the first run wizard Provide an appropriate free IP address, subnet and default gateway from your local network Once the details are entered type ‘4’ […]
Install the NetScaler Trial License Only start this section once you have deployed your NetScaler on your chosen hypervisor platform. Step Description Screenshot When you access your NetScaler, and if you haven’t yet set a SNIP or a license you may be presented with the first run wizard You can click the ‘Licenses’ section to […]
Download the NetScaler Trial License Only start this section once you have deployed your NetScaler on your chosen hypervisor platform. Step Description Screenshot Expand Step 2, click on License Management System to register your temporary license key Sign in with the details you registered your trial license with Tick the Citrix Store NetScaler VPX 1000… […]
Step Description Screenshot 1 Connect to http://www.mycitrix.com 2 Click Downloads Select NetScaler ADC as the product 3 Select the latest release Virtual Appliance (VPX) available to you Note: At the time of writing the latest is 11.1-48.10 4 Select VPX Package for New Installation Select the right package for your hypervisor Note: In the […]
Problem We received the following Netscaler MAS Error when adding Netscaler Instance to be monitored by the NMAS. 1 Error: Licence cannot be retrieved. Either the Netscaler is unresponsive or the login credentials are incorrect. Solution(s) There are a number of reasons this may come up you are not running an enterprise or platinum licence on […]
A client wanted to retire an old Netscaler Gateway URL for their remote access system (used for legacy) with a new Netscaler Gateway URL (netscaler https to https redirection) As all users of the link were external and globally based, had saved shortcuts, IE favourites etc so to 1) continue un-interrupted service and 2) reduce […]
Situation: We upgraded to 10.5 for our Citrix Netscalers and quickly realised that password changing was broken. Further to this, the end users were simply getting the ambigious ‘Incorrect user name or password’ during change (the password change screen would come up and allow them to enter their new password but then simply quit out, […]
We wanted to set a simple timeout and max authentication attempts on the netscaler before an end user locked out their Active Directory account (given that LDAP auth was the Primary authentication method this also means that a brute force style password attempt would be stopped at the netscaler and never hit the inside LDAP […]
Scenario: 2 Citrix XenApp farms (6.5 and a 4.5) The 6.5 apps were always appearing and working ok The 4.5 apps would sporadically appear or even disappear during a refresh of the Gaeway page ‘ Some applications have been removed’ even if these applications had the option to allow via access gateway UNTICKED Solution: One […]