Overview
The NS-201: NetScaler ADC 14.x Administration course provides IT professionals with the skills to deploy, configure, secure, and optimize NetScaler ADC. Covering networking, load balancing, SSL offloading, traffic control, policies, and optimization, it enables participants to manage ADC environments using best practices.
Objectives
By the end of this course, leaner will be able to:
- Understand NetScaler ADC architecture, features, and deployment options.
- Install, license, and configure NetScaler ADC.
- Implement high availability and load balancing.
- Configure SSL offloading and secure system traffic.
- Apply policies, responder rules, and content switching.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize NetScaler ADC performance.
- Implement Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB).
Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP, and the OSI model.
- Familiarity with network devices and protocols.
- No prior NetScaler ADC experience required.
Course Outline
- NetScaler ADC overview, features, and platforms
- Deployment options and architecture
- Setup, licensing, and management
- Networking topology, components, routing, and ACLs
- High availability configuration and management
- In-service software upgrades and troubleshooting
- Load balancing concepts, methods, and protection
- SSL configuration, offloading, vulnerabilities, and troubleshooting
- Authentication, authorization, and auditing
- External authentication configuration
- Admin partitions
- Default policies, expressions, and bindings
- Responder policies and rewrite rules
- URL transformation and DNS rewrite
- Content switching policies and protection features
- Advanced/default policy engine usage
- HTTP compression, integrated caching, and front-end optimization
- Logging, SNMP monitoring, diagnostics, and troubleshooting
- GSLB overview, architecture, and monitoring
- Content-switching GSLB and customization