Overview

• Features and solutions

• Architecture

• How Citrix ADM discovers instances

• How Citrix ADM communicates with managed instances

Deploy

• Prerequisites for installing Citrix ADM

• Citrix ADM with Citrix XenServer

• Citrix ADM with Microsoft Hyper-V

• Citrix ADM with VMware ESXi

• Citrix ADM with Linux KVM server

• Configure high availability deployment

• Configure disaster recovery for high availability

• Configure on-prem agents for multisite deployment

• Migrate Citrix ADM single-server deployment to a high availability deployment

• Migrate from NetScaler Insight Center to Citrix ADM

• Migrate Command Center configurations to Citrix ADM

• Integrate Citrix ADM with Citrix XenDesktop Director

• Attach an additional disk to Citrix ADM

Configure

• Add instances to Citrix ADM

• Add VPX Instances deployed in cloud to Citrix ADM

• Enable analytics on virtual servers

• Configure NTP server

• Configure system settings

Authentication

• How to extract an authentication server group

• How to add LDAP authentication servers

• How to enable fallback local authentication

• How to add RADIUS authentication servers

• How to add TACACS authentication servers

• How to cascade external authentication servers

Access control

• Role-based access control

  • Configure access policies

  • Configure groups

  • Configure roles

  • Configure users

• Multi-tenancy - Provide exclusive management environment to your tenants

Applications

• Application performance analytics

• Application security analytics

• Create an application definition

• Create a threshold and alert for application analytics

StyleBooks

• StyleBook groups

• Importing and synchronizing StyleBooks from GitHub repository

• Use default StyleBooks

  • Hide all default StyleBooks

• 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

• 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

  • Use custom StyleBooks

  • Create a StyleBook to upload files to Citrix ADM

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

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

  • Instance roles

  • Create a Stylebook to perform non-CRUD operations

• 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

  • 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

  • Back up 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

  • Rediscover multiple Citrix ADC VPX instances

  • Poll Citrix ADC instances and entities

  • Unmanage an instance

  • Trace the route to an instance

• 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

  • Export syslog messages

  • Suppress syslog messages

  • Configure prune settings for instance events

• 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

• 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 executed configuration jobs

  • Schedule jobs created by using built in templates

  • Use maintenance jobs to upgrade Citrix ADC SDX instances

  • Create configuration jobs for Citrix SD-WAN WANOP 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

  • View audit reports

  • Audit configuration changes across instances

  • Get configuration advice on network configuration

  • Poll configuration audit of Citrix ADC instances

  • Generate configuration audit diff for ConfigChange SNMP traps

• Network functions

  • Generate reports for load balancing entities

  • Export or schedule export of network functions reports

• Network reporting

Analytics

• License requirements

• Logstream overview

• Settings

  • Disable URL data collection

  • Create thresholds and alerts

  • Configure adaptive thresholds

  • Configure database persistence

• Self-service diagnostics for Analytics

• Web Insight

• HDX Insight

  • Create thresholds and configure alerts for HDX Insight

  • View HDX Insight reports and metrics

  • Enable HDX Insight data collection

• Gateway Insight

• Security Insight

• SSL Insight

• 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

• Secure Web Gateway Analytics

  • Dashboards

  • Use cases

Orchestration

• OpenStack - integrating Citrix ADC instances

  • Prerequisites

  • Pre-configuration tasks in Citrix ADM and OpenStack

  • Configure LBaaS V1 using Horizon

  • Configure LBaaS V2 using command line

  • Configure layer 7 content switching

  • Manual provisioning of Citrix ADC VPX instance on OpenStack

  • Provisioning of Citrix ADM VPX instance on OpenStack using StyleBooks

  • Citrix ADC VPX check-in and check-out license and pooled license support for OpenStack environment

  • Shared VLAN support for admin partitions

  • Trial licensing workflow

  • Integrate with OpenStack Heat services

  • Service package isolation policies

  • Flexible policy-based device allotment

• NSX Manager - manual provisioning of Citrix ADC instances

• NSX Manager - auto provisioning of Citrix ADC instances

• Citrix ADC automation using Citrix ADM in Cisco ACI hybrid mode

  • Prerequisites

  • Configure Citrix ADC in hybrid mode using Cisco APIC and Citrix ADM

  • APIC fault reports

  • Logs generated by Citrix ADM

  • Logs generated by hybrid-mode device package

• Citrix ADC device package in Cisco ACI's cloud orchestrator mode

Manage licenses

• Licenses for Citrix ADM License server in high availability

• Citrix ADC pooled capacity

  • Configure Citrix ADC pooled capacity

  • Upgrading a Perpetual License in ADC MPX to ADC Pooled Capacity

  • Upgrade a perpetual license in ADC SDX to ADC pooled capacity

  • Citrix ADC pooled capacity on ADC instances in cluster mode

  • Health monitoring

  • Expected behaviors when issues arise

  • Configure expiry checks for pooled capacity licenses

• Citrix ADC VPX check-in and check-out licensing

• Citrix ADC virtual CPU licensing

Manage Citrix SD-WAN instances

• Add Citrix SD-WAN SE/EE instances

• View Citrix SD-WAN analytics data for multi-hop deployment

• View event reports for Citrix SD-WAN WANOP Instances

• View network reports for Citrix SD-WAN WANOP Instances

• Back up Citrix SD-WAN WANOP instances

Manage HAProxy instances

• Add HAProxy instances to Citrix ADM

• HAProxy app dashboard

• Third-party licensing

• Role-based access control for HAProxy instances

• Monitor HAProxy instances

• View the details of frontends configured on HAProxy instances

• View the details of backends configured on HAProxy instances

• View the details of servers configured on HAProxy instances

• View the HAProxy Instances with the highest number of frontends or servers

• Restart an HAProxy instance

• Back up and restore an HAProxy instance

• Edit the HAProxy configuration file

Manage system settings

• Configure system backup settings

• Configure a NTP Server

• Upgrade Citrix ADM

• How to reset the password for Citrix ADM

• Configure syslog purging interval

• Configure system prune settings

• Enable shell access for non-default users

• Recover inaccessible Citrix ADM servers

• Assign a host name to a Citrix ADM server

• Back up and restore your Citrix ADM server in a single-server deployment

• View auditing information

• Configure SSL settings

• Monitor CPU, memory, and disk usage

• Configure system notification settings

• Generate a tech support file

• Diagnose and troubleshoot Citrix ADC instances

• Back Up and restore a Citrix ADM configuration in an HA pair

• Configure a cipher group

• Create SNMP traps, managers, and users

• Configure and view system alarms

Hybrid and Multi-cloud Deployments

• Autoscaling of Citrix ADC in AWS using Citrix ADM

  • Autoscale Architecture

  • Autoscale Configuration

  • Autoscale Dashboard