Course Description
This course prepares administrators and other IT professionals to successfully deploy, administer, and configure Citrix NetScaler 8.1.

Learners will gain understanding of NetScaler features such as load balancing, SSL offload, policy engine expressions, content filtering, compression, content switching, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

Interactive instructor-led discussion and hands-on labs guide learners through administration tasks, preparing them to support Citrix NetScaler 8.1 deployments.

Skills and Key Topics
Upon successful completion of this course, learners are able to perform the following:

• Identify Citrix NetScaler products, hardware platforms and hardware components
• Identify common deployment scenarios and deployment considerations
• Identify NetScaler system installation requirements
• Describe the installation process
• Log in to the NetScaler system
• Identify NetScaler system-owned IP addresses
• Upgrade system software
• Manage licenses
• Enable features
• Manage administration accounts
• Configure high availability
• Create servers and services
• Configure health checks
• Create load balancing virtual servers
• Enable persistence
• Configure advanced load balancing options
• Identify common SSL deployments
• Create, upload and bind certificates
• Configure advanced SSL offload options
• Configure policy engine expressions
• Bind content filter actions
• Configure compression policies
• Create and bind content switching virtual servers and policies
• Configure auditing
• Configure client IP address insertion
• Configure monitoring using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• Configure Global Server Load Balancing
• Configure advance load balancing
• Understand Advanced Policy Engine expressions
• Configure responder and rewrite features
• Secure the NetScaler system communication
• Configure monitoring with SNMP
• Implement troubleshooting procedures

Audience
This course is intended for system administrators or network operations personnel, who configure and administer Citrix NetScaler products.

Course Length
5 days

Preparatory Recommendations

Before taking this course, Citrix recommends that learners have the following:

• Intermediate knowledge of TCP/IP and HTTP protocols and an understanding of the OSI model
• Experience with network devices, various networking protocols, and aspects of application and site architecture
• Moderate exposure to UNIX or Linux
• Exposure to basic systems administration concepts, including logging, software upgrade procedures and high availability operations
• Familiarity with web server software
• Basic knowledge of DNS, SSL, and compression concepts
• Understanding of concepts related to server load balancing and content switching
• Knowledge of network security threats and site protection concepts

Instructional Method
This course is an instructor-led training course with classroom discussion, demonstrations and the practical application of concepts through hands-on exercises.

Certification Preparation
This course will prepare learners for exam 731 Citrix NetScaler 8.0: Administration, a requirement of the Citrix Certified Administrator for Citrix NetScaler 8 certification program.