NS Audit Server

Somethings does not change name, the audit server is still called “NS” 🙂 I ran into a few problems during installation of ADC / NetScaler Audit Server Utilities on Linux (on a Ubuntu 64bit, uname -a 4.15.0-65-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 17 17:06:04 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) I got the following error: /usr/local/netscaler/bin/audserver: No such file or directory And there were not really any more pointers to go for, and the docs are old-skool citrix style which means other tools have to be put in use.

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Ciphersuites and their names

I was debugging on why ssllabs.com reported F sometimes on a CSVIP, but only sometimes, i knew i had to disable a certain cipher to get rid of it (POODLE vulnerability) There is this nice list from openSSL that maps to IANA names.

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User-Agents with Citrix clients

Short article, but very informative.

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Citrix GW – One GW, multiple customers with different logos

Having all your customers on one CGW for simplicity is superb, but if you need customization you will quickly see it would be nice to have one customer pr GW.

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n-Factor – restrictions on native OTP management

With the native OTP solution in NetScaler, the default setting is that users can add/delete devices in whatever pace that they feel like.

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How to do troubleshooting in production

In those rare cases where do you don’t have the perfect environment with a proper test installation and all the necessary resources behind it, you might have to do troubleshooting in a live(or dead) production environment.

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n-factor – native OTP with multiple domains on the same portal

NetScaler introduced native OTP (One Time Password) some time ago, which you can incorporate in the login process as long as you have AD servers ready to use as a database.

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nFactor – How do authenticated based on group membership

During the login flow, you might want to extract which group(s) a user is a member of, and based on that information change the login flow.

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nFactor – adding custom links

Adding links to the login process is helpful to present the user with additional information, or linking to a portal page where they can create a service ticket.

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Passwordreset portal with NetScaler as frontend

Introduction Users that forget their password usually adds unwanted queues to helpdesk. Wouldn’t it be nice, if the user’s themselves could reset their own password?

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