Features and solutions
NetScaler® Application Delivery Management (ADM) provides the following features:
Application Analytics and Management
App Score is the product of a scoring system that defines how well an application is performing. It shows whether the application is performing well in terms of responsiveness, is not vulnerable to threats, and has all the systems up and running.
The App Security Dashboard provides a holistic view of the security status of your applications. For example, it shows key security metrics such as security violations, signature violations, threat indexes. App Security dashboard also displays attack related information such as SYN attacks, small window attacks, and DNS flood attacks for the discovered ADC instances.
Networks
Enables you to manage the NetScaler and NetScaler Gateway instances.
Enables you to group your instances as follows:
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Static Group: Allow you to define a device group that you can use in different tasks such as, Configuration Jobs and so on.
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Private IP-block: Enables you to group your instances based on geographical locations.
When the IP address of an ADC instance is added to ADM, a NITRO call is sent by ADM and implicitly adds itself as a trap destination for the instance to receive its traps or events.
Events represent occurrences of events or errors on a managed ADC instance.
NetScaler ADM now streamlines every aspect of certificate management for you. Through a single console, you can establish automated policies to ensure the right issuer, key strength, and correct algorithms, while keeping close tabs on certificates that are unused or soon to expire. To begin using ADM’s SSL dashboard and its functionalities, you must understand what an SSL certificate is and how you can use ADM to track your SSL certificates.
NetScaler ADM allows you to create configuration jobs that help you perform configuration tasks, such as creating entities, configuring features, replication of configuration changes, system upgrades, and other maintenance activities with ease on multiple instances. Configuration jobs and templates simplify the most repetitive administrative tasks to a single task on ADM.
Enables you to monitor and identify anomalies in the configurations across your instances.
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Configuration Advice: Allows you to identify configuration anomaly.
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Audit template: Allows you to monitor the changes across a specific configuration.
You can optimize resource usage by monitoring your network reporting on ADM.
Analytics
Provides visibility into enterprise web applications and allows IT administrators to monitor all web applications being served by the NetScaler by providing integrated and real-time monitoring of applications. Web Insight provides critical information such as user and server response time, enabling IT organizations to monitor and improve application performance.
Provides end-to end visibility for ICA traffic passing through NetScaler. HDX Insight enables administrators to view real-time client and network latency metrics, historical reports, End-to-end performance data, and troubleshoot performance issues.
Provides visibility into the failures that users encounter when logging on, regardless of the access mode. You can view a list of users logged on at a given time, along with the number of active users, number of active sessions, and bytes and licenses used by all users at any given time.
Provides a single-pane solution to help you assess your application security status and take corrective actions to secure your applications.
SSL Insight provides visibility into secure web transactions (HTTPS) and allows IT administrators to monitor all the secure web applications being served by the NetScaler by providing integrated and real-time and historic monitoring of secure web transactions.
TCP Insight provides an easy and scalable solution for monitoring the metrics of the optimization techniques and congestion control strategies (or algorithms) used in ADC instances to avoid network congestion in data transmission.
The Video Insight feature provides an easy and scalable solution for monitoring the metrics of the video optimization techniques used by NetScaler instances to improve customer experience and operational efficiency.
Orchestration
Enables integration of NetScaler products with OpenStack cloud orchestration. NetScaler ADM and OpenStack implement each other's APIs, enabling integration of the NetScaler instance's Load Balancing feature (LBaaS) with OpenStack cloud orchestration.
NetScaler ADM supports SDN in the enterprise network by integrating with SDN controllers of different vendors. ADM supports both VMware NSX Manager and Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC).