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Configure NetScaler Console server only as the Flexed or Pooled license server

January 8, 2024
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As an administrator, you can configure the NetScaler Console only for the Pooled licensing feature. With this configuration, the NetScaler Console only receives licensing data from NetScaler instances.

Sometimes, you might have the regulatory mandate that requires restricting NetScaler instances’ data from leaving the regulatory zone. In such situations, you can deploy a local instance of an NetScaler Console server in your regulatory zone to use management, monitoring, and analytics capabilities. When you take the same approach to use the Pooled licenses feature, you have to split Pooled licenses across various NetScaler Console license servers. This approach does not provide you the flexibility to allocate Pooled licenses across your globally deployed NetScaler instances.

Therefore, configure the NetScaler Console only for the Pooled licensing feature. The NetScaler Console receives only licensing data from all NetScaler instances. So, you can adhere to the regulatory mandate and dynamically allocate Pooled capacity licenses across globally deployed NetScaler instances.

This document explains how to configure the NetScaler Console only for the Pooled licensing feature.

Prerequisites

Before you configure the NetScaler Console only for the Pooled licensing feature, complete the first time onboarding and setting up the NetScaler Console. Ensure to review the agent specifications in System requirements.

Important

When you first time onboard or set up the NetScaler Console, ensure the following:

  • The Custom Deployment option is selected.
  • NetScaler instances to be added after you complete step 4 in this configuration procedure

Prerequisites for NetScaler Console only as a license server

For more information about onboarding and setting up the NetScaler Console, see Getting started.

After you complete the onboarding steps, configure the NetScaler Console only for the Pooled licensing feature.

How to configure NetScaler Console only as the Flexed or Pooled license server

Do the following to configure the NetScaler Console only for the licensing feature:

  1. Navigate to Settings > Global Settings > System Configurations > System Deployment.

  2. In NetScaler Console Deployment, select NetScaler Console only as a flexed/pooled licensing server.

    NetScaler Console only as license server

  3. Click OK.

    This action retains only the Pooled licensing feature and disables the following NetScaler Console features:

    • NetScaler Console backup
    • Event management
    • SSL certificate management
    • Network reporting
    • Network functions
    • Configuration audit

    Note

    By default, the NetScaler Console analytics feature is disabled. Make sure to disable this feature if you have enabled it.

    In the confirmation box, click Yes.

    The NetScaler Console GUI now displays only the Pooled licensing feature. And, the remaining features do not appear.

  4. After you configure NetScaler Console only for the licensing feature, add NetScaler instances in the Infrastructure > Instances page.

Note

  • You can add a NetScaler instance in the NetScaler Console and other NetScaler Console servers as well. When you change the password of such NetScaler instances, ensure to update the password on all NetScaler Console servers where the instance is discovered. This note applies when the NetScaler Console is configured only to use the pooled licensing feature.

  • A user can still do some operations of the disabled features in the NetScaler Console GUI. For example, event polling and NetScaler backup. As a super administrator, If you want to restrict such operations, disable user accesses for other administrators using an appropriate access policy. For more information, see Configure Access Policies on NetScaler Console.

Configure NetScaler Console server only as the Flexed or Pooled license server
January 8, 2024
Contributed by: 
C
January 8, 2024
Contributed by: 
C

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