Migrate NetScaler Console to Citrix Cloud™

• FAQs

• Troubleshooting

Overview

• Features and solutions

• Architecture

• How NetScaler® Console discovers instances

• How NetScaler Console polls managed instances and entities

NetScaler telemetry program

• Modes of telemetry collection

• Diagnostics for troubleshooting telemetry collection and upload issues

NetScaler Console licensing

• For builds till 14.1-17.x

• For build 14.1-21.x or later

Deploy

• Prerequisites for installing NetScaler Console

• NetScaler Console on Citrix Hypervisor™

• NetScaler Console on Microsoft Hyper-V

• NetScaler Console on VMware ESXi

• Automate deployment of NetScaler agent on VMWare ESXi

• NetScaler Console on Kubernetes cluster

• NetScaler Console on Linux KVM server

• NetScaler Console on Nutanix hypervisor (Acropolis)

• NetScaler Console on Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

• NetScaler Console on Azure Cloud

  • NetScaler Console HA pair on Azure Cloud

• NetScaler Console on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Configure high availability deployment

  • Configure high availability across different layer 3 subnets (HA over L3)

• Configure disaster recovery for high availability

  • Configure disaster recovery for standalone deployment

• Configure NetScaler agents for multisite deployment

• Configure a NetScaler agent as a microservice

• Install a NetScaler Console agent OpenShift operator for NetScaler Console on-prem deployment

• Upgrade agents

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

• Migrate from NetScaler Insight Center to NetScaler Console

• Integrate NetScaler Console with Citrix Virtual Desktop Director

• Attach an additional disk to NetScaler Console

NetScaler MPX™ disk encryption through NetScaler Console

• Behavior of NetScaler MPX HA pair after encryption

• Behavior of NetScaler MPX cluster after encryption

Configure

• Add instances to NetScaler Console

• Add VPX Instances deployed in cloud to NetScaler Console

• Configure analytics

  • For builds till 14.1-17.x

  • For builds 14.1-21.x or later

• Assign a net profile for the managed NetScaler instance

• Configure NTP server

• Configure system settings

• Integrate NetScaler Console with the ServiceNow instance

• Export or schedule export reports

Authentication

• Add LDAP authentication servers

• Add RADIUS authentication servers

• Add TACACS authentication servers

• Users and users group in NetScaler Console

• Extract an external authentication server group

• Enable fallback and cascade external authentication servers

• Two factor authentication (2FA) support with LDAP, RADIUS, and TACACS

Access control

• Role-based access control

  • Configure access policies

  • Configure groups

  • Configure roles

  • Configure users

Unified dashboard overview

• Create custom dashboards

Applications

• App dashboard

• Manage applications

• View applications

• Configure and associate an application to multiple custom applications

• Application dashboard overview

• Application details

• Select App Score components and set thresholds

• View microservice application details

• Intelligent app analytics

  • Configure Intelligent App Analytics

• Performance indicators (Issues)

  • Response Time

  • Active Services

  • Average CPU Usage

  • Memory Usage

  • Service Flaps

  • Unstable Server (5xx errors)

  • 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

• Troubleshoot App Dashboard

Key metrics

• Peak and lean usage analytics

Web Insight dashboard

• Analyze the root cause for application slowness

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 configuration

• StyleBook categories

• Importing and synchronizing StyleBooks from an external repository

• Use default StyleBooks

  • Web application firewall StyleBook

  • Hide all default StyleBooks

  • Prometheus analytics StyleBook

• Simplified migration of NetScaler application configuration using 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 StyleBooks

  • Citrix StoreFront StyleBooks

• 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 and edit a config pack

  • Create a StyleBook to upload files to NetScaler Console

  • Create a StyleBook to upload SSL certificate and certificate key files to NetScaler Console

  • Manage SSL certificates from the certificate store using StyleBooks

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

  • Instance roles

  • Create a StyleBook to perform non-CRUD operations

  • Migrate config pack of a StyleBook to another StyleBook

• Manage data sources

  • Use a NetScaler instance as the data source

  • Use target NetScaler instances as data sources

  • Use custom data sources

• 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

  • Parameters-source construct

  • Parameters conditions

  • 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

Security

• Application security dashboard

  • Unified security dashboard

• Security violations

• API Security

  • View API Analytics

  • Discover API endpoints

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 NetScaler 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

  • Centralized GeoIP DB Updates through NetScaler Console

  • 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 NetScaler Console

  • Provision NetScaler VPX instances on VMware ESX

  • Rediscover multiple NetScaler VPX instances

  • Unmanage an instance

  • Trace the route to an instance

  • View NetScaler-owned IP addresses

  • Replicate configurations from one NetScaler instance to another

• SSL certificate management

  • Automated certificate renewal by using the ACME protocol

  • Zero-touch 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 Console 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

  • View event messages

  • 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

  • Use configuration templates

  • Configuration audit

• Schedule upgrade jobs

  • Use jobs to upgrade NetScaler instances

• Security Advisory

  • Secure configuration recommendations

  • CVE Detection

  • File integrity monitoring

  • Indicators of Compromise (IoC)

  • Supported CVEs through Security Advisory

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2026-19490

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2026-19489

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2026-13474

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2026-10817

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2026-10816

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2026-8655

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2026-8452

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2026-8451

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2026-4368

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2026-3055

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2025-12101

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2025-8424

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2025-7776

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2025-7775

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2025-6543

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2025-5349

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2025-5777

  • Remediate vulnerabilities for CVE-2024-8535

  • 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

  • Kubernetes

Settings

• Configure IPAM

• Configure action policies

• Observability Integration

  • Integration with Splunk

  • Integration with New Relic

  • Integration with Microsoft Sentinel

  • Configure NetScaler instances for the export of insights to Prometheus using the default schema

  • Configure the export of NetScaler metrics and audit logs to Splunk

• Configure Access control lists

• Use NetScaler Console log messages for managing and monitoring your infrastructure

NetScaler licenses

• License Activation Service

• Best Practices

• License Management

• Minimum and maximum capacity for checkout

• NetScaler Flexed license

• Configure licensing

• License dashboard

• License reporting

• Transition to Flexed licensing

• Scenarios for Flexed or Pooled license expiry and connectivity issues behavior

• Configure NetScaler Console as the Flexed or Pooled license server

• Legacy licenses

  • NetScaler Pooled license

  • Configure NetScaler Pooled capacity

  • Upgrade a perpetual license in NetScaler VPX to NetScaler Pooled capacity

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

  • Upgrade a perpetual license in NetScaler SDX to NetScaler Pooled capacity

  • NetScaler Pooled capacity on NetScaler instances in cluster mode

  • NetScaler VPX check-in and check-out licensing

  • NetScaler virtual CPU licensing

  • Expected behaviors when issues arise

Manage system settings

• Configure system backup settings

• Configure proxy server settings

• Configure an NTP Server

• Upgrade NetScaler Console

• How to reset the password for NetScaler Console

• Configure a second NIC to access NetScaler Console

• Configure a second NIC on agent

• Configure syslog purging interval

• Configure system prune settings

• Enable shell access for non-default users

• Recover inaccessible NetScaler Console servers

• Assign a host name to a NetScaler Console server

• Back up and restore your NetScaler Console server

• VM snapshots of NetScaler Console 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 agent

• Configure agent settings

• Use Data Storage Management dashboard

  • Understand your data storage

  • Manage your data storage

  • Data retention policy