Release notes

• What's new

• Known issues

• Previous releases

Getting started

• Configure the ADC built-in agent to manage instances

• Install Citrix ADM agent on-premises

• Install Citrix ADM service agent on Microsoft Azure Cloud

• Install Citrix ADM service agent on AWS

• Install Citrix ADM service agent on GCP

• Install Citrix ADM agent in Kubernetes cluster

• Get Help and Support

Low-touch onboarding of Citrix ADC instances using Citrix ADM service connect

• Onboard Citrix ADC instances using Citrix ADM service connect

• Transition from a built-in agent to an external agent

Citrix ADM Licensing

• Manage Citrix ADM resources using Express account

Setting up

• Add multiple agents

• Configure Citrix ADM agents for multisite deployment

• Configuring agent upgrade settings

• Add instances

• Add HAProxy instances

• Manage licensing and enable analytics on virtual servers

• Configure syslog on instances

• Configure Role-based access control

• Configure Analytics settings

• How to assign additional permissions to delegated admin users

• Integrate Citrix ADM with ServiceNow instance

• Export or schedule export reports

Applications

• Application management and application dashboard

• Manage applications

• Automate SSL certificate management

• Application dashboard overview

• View applications

• Application details

• Application peak usage and lean period analytics

• Application usage and anomalies

• Select App Score components and configure thresholds

• View microservice application details

• Web Insight

  • Analyze the root cause for application slowness

• Application usage analytics

• Troubleshoot App Dashboard

• Create a threshold and alert for application analytics

• Intelligent App Analytics

  • Configure Intelligent App Analytics

• Performance indicators for application analytics

  • Response Time

  • Active Services

  • Average CPU Usage

  • Application average CPU Usage

  • Memory Usage

  • Service Flaps

  • Unsable Server (5xx errors)

  • Server response time

  • Session build-up

  • Low Session Reuse

  • Surge Queue Buildup

  • Unusually large HTTP packets

  • Improper Persistence Type

  • TCP reassemble queue limit hits

  • SSL Real Time Traffic

• Application security dashboard

Manage API Gateway

• View API analytics

• Create or upload an API definition

• Deploy API instance

• Discover API endpoints

• Add API policies

Service graph

• Service graph for Kubernetes apps

  • Setting up service graph

  • View details in service graph

  • Configure thresholds in service graph

  • View service details

  • View ingress details for troubleshooting

  • Distributed tracing

  • View diagnostics

• Service graph for applications

• Holistic view of all applications

StyleBooks

• StyleBook groups

• Importing and synchronizing StyleBooks from GitHub repository

• Use default StyleBooks

  • Hide all default StyleBooks

• Migrate Citrix ADC application configurations

• Business application StyleBooks

  • SSO Google Apps StyleBook

  • SSO Office 365 StyleBook

  • Microsoft Skype for Business StyleBook

  • Microsoft Exchange StyleBook

  • Microsoft SharePoint StyleBook

  • Microsoft ADFS proxy StyleBook

  • Oracle e-business StyleBook

  • Web application firewall StyleBook

  • Create WAF and BOT profiles using StyleBook

• Create and use custom StyleBooks

  • StyleBook to create a load balancing virtual server

  • StyleBook to create a basic load balancing configuration

  • Create a composite StyleBook

  • Use GUI attributes in a custom StyleBook

  • Import custom StyleBooks

  • Import a StyleBook to configure an application for the Autoscale group

  • Create a StyleBook to upload files to Citrix ADM service

  • Create a StyleBook to upload SSL certificate and certificate key files to Citrix ADM service

  • Enable analytics and configure alarms on a virtual server defined in a StyleBook

  • Instance roles

  • Create a StyleBook to perform non-CRUD operations

  • Create and edit a configuration pack

  • Deploying GSLB configurations using DNS domain names

• Use API to create configurations from StyleBooks

  • Use API to create configurations to upload certificate and key files

  • Use API to create configurations to upload any file type

  • Use API to import custom StyleBooks

  • Use API to download custom StyleBooks

  • Use API to delete custom StyleBooks

• StyleBooks grammar

  • Header

  • Import StyleBooks

  • Parameters

  • Parameters-default-sources construct

  • Substitutions

  • Components

  • Helper components

  • Optional properties

  • Properties-default-sources construct

  • Nested components

  • Condition construct

  • Repeat construct

  • Repeat-condition construct

  • Nested repeats

  • Outputs

  • Parameter reference

  • Parent reference

  • Components reference

  • Substitutions reference

  • Variable reference

  • Operations

  • Analytics

  • Alarms

  • Expressions

  • In-place interpolations

  • Built-in functions

  • Dependency detection

Networks

• Instance management

  • How to monitor globally distributed sites

  • How to create tags and assign to instances

  • How to search instances using values of tags and properties

  • Manage admin partitions of Citrix ADC instances

  • Backup and restore Citrix ADC instances

  • Force a failover to the secondary Citrix ADC instance

  • Force a secondary Citrix ADC instance to stay secondary

  • Create instance groups

  • Provision VPX instances on an SDX instance

  • Rediscover multiple Citrix ADC VPX instances

  • How Citrix ADM polls managed instances and entities

  • Unmanage an instance

  • Trace the route to an instance

  • How to change a Citrix ADC MPX or VPX root password

  • How to change a Citrix ADC SDX root password

• Events

  • Use events dashboard

  • Set event age for events

  • Schedule an event filter

  • Set repeated email notifications for events

  • Suppress events

  • Create event rules

  • Modify the reported severity of events that occur on Citrix ADC instances

  • View events summary

  • Display event severities and SNMP trap details

  • View and Export syslog messages

  • Suppress syslog messages

• SSL Dashboard

  • Use the SSL dashboard

  • Set up notifications for SSL certificate expiry

  • Update an installed certificate

  • Install SSL certificates on a Citrix ADC instance

  • Create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

  • Link and unlink SSL certificates

  • Configure an enterprise policy

  • Poll SSL certificates from Citrix ADC instances

• Configure IPAM

• Configuration jobs

  • Create a configuration job

  • Use record-and-play to create configuration jobs

  • Use configuration jobs to replicate configuration from one instance to multiple instances

  • Use variables in configuration jobs

  • Create configuration jobs from corrective commands

  • Replicate running and saved configuration from one Citrix ADC instance to another

  • Reuse run configuration jobs

  • Schedule jobs created by using built in templates

  • Use maintenance jobs to upgrade Citrix ADC SDX instances

  • Create configuration jobs for Citrix ADC SD-WAN WO instances

  • Use the master configuration template

  • Use jobs to upgrade Citrix ADC instances

  • Use configuration templates to create audit templates

  • Use SCP (put) command in configuration jobs

  • Reschedule jobs configured by using built in templates

  • Reuse configuration audit templates in configuration jobs

  • Import and export configuration templates

  • Maintenance jobs

• Configuration audit

  • Create audit templates

  • Poll configuration audit of Citrix ADC instances

  • View audit reports

  • Generate configuration audit diff for ConfigChange SNMP traps

  • Audit configuration changes across instances

  • Get configuration advice on network configuration

• Network functions

  • Generate reports for load balancing entities

  • Export or schedule export of network functions reports

• Network reporting

Orchestration

• Kubernetes

Analytics

• License requirements

• Logstream overview

• Self-service diagnostics for analytics

• Web Insight

• SSL Insight

• HDX Insight

  • Enable HDX Insight data collection

  • Create thresholds and configure alerts for HDX Insight

  • View HDX Insight reports and metrics

  • Troubleshoot HDX Insight issues

• Metrics information for thresholds

• Gateway Insight

  • Troubleshoot Gateway Insight issues

• Security

  • Security violations

  • WAF learning engine

• TCP Insight

• WAN Insight

• Video Insight

  • View network efficiency

  • Compare the data volume used by optimized and unoptimized ABR videos

  • View the type of videos streamed and data volume consumed from your network

  • Compare optimized and unoptimized play time of ABR videos

  • Compare bandwidth consumption of optimized and unoptimized ABR videos

  • Compare optimized and unoptimized number of plays of ABR videos

  • View peak data rate for a specific time frame

• SSL Forward Proxy Analytics

  • Dashboards

  • Use cases

Manage instance licenses

• Pooled capacity

  • Configure pooled capacity

  • Configure the ADM service only for the pooled licensing feature

  • Apply a new license to ADM for an existing pooled capacity setup

  • FAQs and other resources

  • Troubleshoot pooled capacity license issues

• VPX check-in and check-out licensing

• Virtual CPU licensing

Settings

• Data retention policy

• Instance settings

• System configurations

• Enable or disable ADM features

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud deployments

• Provisioning Citrix ADC VPX instances on AWS

• Autoscaling of Citrix ADC in AWS using Citrix ADM

  • Architecture

  • Configuration

  • Dashboard

• Provisioning Citrix ADC VPX instances on Microsoft Azure

• Autoscaling of Citrix ADC VPX in Microsoft Azure using Citrix ADM

  • Configuration

  • Dashboard

  • Azure terminologies

• Provisioning Citrix ADC VPX instances on Google Cloud

• Autoscaling of Citrix ADC VPX in Google Cloud using Citrix ADM

  • Configuration

  • Dashboard

• Citrix ADC Global Load Balancing for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud deployments

  • Using StyleBooks to configure GLB

  • Using StyleBooks to configure GLB on Citrix ADC LB nodes

• Infrastructure Analytics

  • View instance details in infrastructure analytics

  • View ADC capacity issues

  • Enhanced Infrastructure Analytics with new indicators