Release notes

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Migrate on-premises NetScaler ADM to Citrix Cloud

• FAQs

• Troubleshooting

Overview

• Features and solutions

• Architecture

• How NetScaler ADM discovers instances

• How NetScaler ADM polls managed instances and entities

Deploy

• Prerequisites for installing NetScaler ADM

• NetScaler ADM on Citrix Hypervisor

• NetScaler ADM on Microsoft Hyper-V

• NetScaler ADM on VMware ESXi

• Automate deployment of NetScaler ADM agent on VMWare ESXi

• NetScaler ADM on Kubernetes cluster

• NetScaler ADM on Linux KVM server

• Configure high availability deployment

• Configure disaster recovery for high availability

• Configure on-prem agents for multisite deployment

  • Configure an on-prem agent as a microservice

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

• Migrate from NetScaler Insight Center to NetScaler ADM

• Integrate NetScaler ADM with Citrix Virtual Desktop Director

• Attach an additional disk to NetScaler ADM

Configure

• Add instances to NetScaler ADM

• Add VPX Instances deployed in cloud to NetScaler ADM

• Manage licensing and enable analytics on virtual servers

  • A unified process to enable analytics on virtual servers

• Assign a net profile for the managed NetScaler instance

• Configure NTP server

• Configure system settings

• Integrate NetScaler ADM with the ServiceNow instance

• Export or schedule export reports

Authentication

• Configure external authentication servers in NetScaler ADM

• Add LDAP authentication servers

• Add RADIUS authentication servers

• Add TACACS authentication servers

• Users and users group in NetScaler ADM

• Extract an external authentication server group

• Enable fallback and cascade external authentication servers

Access control

• Role-based access control

  • Configure access policies

  • Configure groups

  • Configure roles

  • Configure users

Applications

• Application dashboard

• Web Insight

  • Analyze the root cause for application slowness

• Service graph

• StyleBooks configuration

Security

• Application security dashboard

  • Unified security dashboard

• Security violations

• Integration with Splunk

• Integration with New Relic

Gateway

• Gateway Insight

  • Troubleshoot Gateway Insight issues

• 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

Infrastructure

• Infrastructure Analytics

  • View instance details in Infrastructure Analytics

  • View ADC capacity issues

  • Enhanced Infrastructure Analytics with new indicators

• 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 NetScaler instances

  • Create a NetScaler high-availability pair

  • Back up and restore NetScaler instances

  • Force a failover to the secondary NetScaler instance

  • Force a secondary NetScaler instance to stay secondary

  • Create instance groups

  • Provision NetScaler VPX instances on SDX using ADM

  • Rediscover multiple NetScaler VPX instances

  • Unmanage an instance

  • Trace the route to an instance

  • Replicate configurations from one NetScaler instance to another

• SSL certificate management

  • Use the SSL dashboard

  • Set up notifications for SSL certificate expiry

  • Update an installed certificate

  • Install SSL certificates on a NetScaler instance

  • Create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

  • Link and unlink SSL certificates

  • Configure an enterprise policy

  • Poll SSL certificates from NetScaler instances

  • Use NetScaler ADM certificate store to manage SSL certificates

  • Manage database custom certificates and ciphers in a high-availability deployment

• 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 NetScaler instances

  • View events summary

  • Display event severities and SNMP trap details

  • Export syslog messages

  • Suppress syslog messages

  • Configure prune settings for instance events

• Network functions

  • Generate reports for load balancing entities

  • Export or schedule export of network functions reports

• Network reporting

• Configuration

  • Create configuration jobs and templates

  • Configuration audit

• Upgrade jobs

  • Schedule upgrade jobs

  • Use jobs to upgrade NetScaler instances

• Security Advisory

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2020-8300

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2021-22927 and CVE-2021-22920

  • Identify and remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2021-22956

  • Identify and remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2022-27509

  • Unsupported CVEs in Security Advisory

• Upgrade Advisory

• Orchestration

  • OpenStack

  • NSX Manager - manual provisioning of NetScaler instances

  • NSX Manager - auto provisioning of NetScaler instances

  • NetScaler automation using NetScaler ADM in Cisco ACI hybrid mode

  • NetScaler device package in Cisco ACI's cloud orchestrator mode

  • Kubernetes

• 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

Settings

• Configure IPAM

Manage instance licenses

• NetScaler pooled capacity

  • Configure NetScaler pooled capacity

  • Configure an ADM server only as the pooled license server

  • Upgrade a perpetual license in NetScaler VPX to ADC pooled capacity

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

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

  • NetScaler pooled capacity on ADC instances in cluster mode

  • Health monitoring

  • Expected behaviors when issues arise

  • Configure expiry checks for pooled capacity licenses

• NetScaler VPX check-in and check-out licensing

• NetScaler virtual CPU licensing

Manage system settings

• Configure system backup settings

• Configure an NTP Server

• Upgrade NetScaler ADM

• How to reset the password for NetScaler ADM

• Configure a second NIC to access NetScaler ADM

• Configure a second NIC on ADM agent

• Configure syslog purging interval

• Configure system prune settings

• Enable shell access for non-default users

• Recover inaccessible NetScaler ADM servers

• Assign a host name to a NetScaler ADM server

• Back up and restore your NetScaler ADM server

• VM snapshots of NetScaler ADM in high availability deployment

• View auditing information

• Configure SSL settings

• Monitor CPU, memory, and disk usage

• Configure notification settings

• Generate a tech support file

• Configure a cipher group

• Create SNMP traps, managers, and users

• Configure and view system alarms

• Create SNMP managers and users for NetScaler ADM agent

• Configure agent settings

• Use Data Storage Management dashboard

  • Understand your data storage

  • Manage your data storage

  • Data retention policy