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NetScaler configurations support in admin partition

June 3, 2024
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C C S

NetScaler configurations can be categorized into the following three types of configurations. It depends on the Citrix configuration and the partition in which the configuration is performed.

Note

  • Admin partitions cannot be set up on a NetScaler cluster. It means that a NetScaler cluster cannot be partitioned.
  • Admin partitions are not supported on a NetScaler 14000 FIPS appliance.
  • Case 3 lists the NetScaler features that are not supported in admin partitions.
  • Load balancing templates are not supported in admin partitions.

Case 1 (global configurations)

Configurations that can be performed ONLY in the default partition and which are available or impact all the admin partitions.

Admin partition global configuration

  • Updates to built-in entities for monitors, TCP profiles, HTTP profiles, and so on.
  • Updates to global parameters for syslog, NSLOG, weblog, content switching, IPSEC, SIP, DHCP, Surge protection, TCP buffering, and system collection.
  • High availability (HA) configurations
  • Interface and VLAN changes
  • User configurations

Case 2 (partition-specific configurations)

Configurations that can be performed independently in default and admin partitions. These configurations are applicable only to the partition in which they are performed.

Admin partition specific configuration

  • Getting traffic level statistics for a partition.
  • Partition admin can update IP bindings for VLAN which is bound to that partition. But cannot update the interface bindings.
  • Clearing NetScaler configurations.
  • Feature-specific parameters for the following features: AppFlow, AppQoE, HTTP compression, DNS, TCP, HTTP, encryption, responder, rewrite, and SSL.
  • Feature-specific configurations such as virtual servers, services, monitors.

Case 3

Configurations that cannot be performed on admin partitions. These features can be configured in the default partition, but there is no impact on admin partitions.

Admin partition types

Note:

Configurations that are supported on admin partitions for a particular release are marked as Yes.

Feature Component NetScaler Feature NetScaler 12.1 NetScaler 13.0 NetScaler 13.1 NetScaler 14.1
Networking Traffic Domain No No No No
Policy Extensibility Yes Yes Yes Yes
Load Balancing DBS Autoscale Yes Yes Yes Yes
Load Balancing DNSSEC Yes Yes Yes Yes
Load Balancing Diameter Yes Yes Yes Yes
Load Balancing RTSP No No No No
Load Balancing Sure Connect Deprecated Deprecated Removed Removed
Load Balancing Autoscale Service Group Yes Yes Yes Yes
Manageability RBA External Authentication Yes Yes Yes Yes
Manageability RISE Cisco No Yes Yes Yes
Manageability AppExpert Yes Yes Yes Yes
Manageability HDX Insight No No No No
Manageability Insight No No No No
VPN Citrix CloudBridge Connector No No No No
VPN NetScaler Gateway or SSL VPN No No No No
VPN SSL VPN ICA Proxy No No No No
VPN Web Interface on NetScaler No No No No
SSL SSL Profile Yes Yes Yes Yes
SSL SSL-FIPS No No No No
SSL External-HSM No No No No
Infra Cache Redirection No No No No
Infra Integrated Caching Yes Yes Yes Yes
Network VXLAN Yes Yes Yes Yes
Network Graceful Shutdown Yes Yes Yes Yes
Network LSN No No No No
Network IPv6 Ready Logo Yes Yes Yes Yes
Network vPath Yes Yes Yes Yes
Load Balancing Datastream Yes Yes Yes Yes
Logging Web logging Yes Yes Yes Yes
Network L2 Param/L3 Param Yes Yes Yes Yes
Network GRE Tunnel Yes Yes Yes Yes
Loading Balancing Scriptable Monitoring Yes Yes Yes Yes
Load Balancing GSLB Yes Yes Yes Yes
Infra Connection Mirroring Yes Yes Yes Yes
Infra FEO Yes Yes Yes Yes
Infra Ns trace Yes Yes Yes Yes
Load Balancing Priority Queuing Deprecated Deprecated Removed Removed
Network HDOSP Deprecated Deprecated Removed Removed
Network Net profile Yes Yes Yes Yes
Network Networking (Restricted Feature) Yes Yes Yes Yes
Network VRRP (Restricted Feature) Yes Yes Yes Yes
Logging Audit Logging (SYSLOG-TCP, LB of syslog servers, SNIP support, and FQDN support for syslog) Yes Yes Yes Yes
VPN NetScaler Gateway No No No No
VPN AAA-TM Yes Yes Yes Yes
AppFlow AppFlow Yes (IPFIX only) Yes Yes Yes
AppFw Application Firewall No No No No
URL transformation URL transformation No No No No
Load Balancing TCP Buffering No No No No
Policies OCSP Responder Yes Yes Yes Yes
Audit Log SYSLOG-TCP Yes Yes Yes Yes
Optimization Front-end-optimization Yes Yes Yes Yes
AppQoE AppQoE Yes Yes Yes Yes

The preceding table lists some of the features as Restricted Features in the admin partition setup. The following section provides the reason why some of the features are mentioned as Restricted Features.

  • VRRP. The VRRP is Restricted Feature in the admin partition because of the following:

    • VRID addition or deletion can be done only from the default partition context. However, once a VRID is created, it can be used within non-default partitions.

    • VRRP functionality is supported only over the dedicated VLANs.

    • VRRP functionality is not supported on shared VLANs, used by the admin partition. It is blocked internally. No error message is shown during configuration. The protocol is blocked on a shared VLAN (tagged or untagged) bound to a default or any administrative partition.

Important

To support active-active deployment using VRRP, main and backup VIP must use the same VRID. Different VRIDs cannot be used.

  • Networking. Some of the networking configurations (L2 Param and L3 Param) are not supported or valid in the partition context. If you come across any such configurations, the following error message is displayed. “ERROR: This configuration option is not supported on the non-default partition.”
NetScaler configurations support in admin partition
June 3, 2024
Contributed by: 
C C S
June 3, 2024
Contributed by: 
C C S

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