All how to articles

Last published : Sep 30, 2026
NetScaler Application Delivery Management (NetScaler Console) "How-to Articles" are simple, relevant, and easy to implement articles on the features of NetScaler Console. These articles contain information about some of the popular NetScaler Console features such as instance management, application management, StyleBooks, certificate management, and Analytics.
Click a feature name in the table below to view the list of how-to articles for that feature.
Topics
Instance management Event management StyleBooks Certificate management NetScaler Console System
Configuration management Authentication Analytics Network functions

Instance management

How to monitor globally distributed sites
How to manage admin partitions of NetScaler instances
How to add instances to NetScaler Console
How to create instance groups on NetScaler Console
How to configure sites for Geomaps in NetScaler Console
How to force a failover to the secondary NetScaler instance by using NetScaler Console
How to force a secondary NetScaler instance to stay secondary by using NetScaler Console
How to back up and restore an instance using NetScaler Console
How to rediscover multiple NetScaler VPX instances
How to poll NetScaler instances and entities in NetScaler Console
How to unmanage an instance on NetScaler Console
How to trace the route to an instance from NetScaler Console

Configuration management

How to create a configuration job on NetScaler Console
How to use SCP (put) command in configuration jobs
How to schedule jobs created by using built in templates in NetScaler Console
How to reschedule jobs that were configured by using built in templates in NetScaler Console
How to reuse executed  configuration jobs
How to upgrade NetScaler instances using NetScaler Console
How to use variables in configuration jobs on NetScaler Console
How to use configuration templates to create audit templates on NetScaler Console
How to create configuration jobs from corrective commands on NetScaler Console
How to replicate running and saved configuration commands from one NetScaler instance to another on NetScaler Console
How to use Record-and-Play to create configuration jobs
How to use configuration jobs to replicate configuration from one instance to multiple instances
How to use the master configuration template on NetScaler Console
How to poll configuration audit of NetScaler instances
How to reuse configuration audit templates in configuration jobs
How to import and export configuration templates
How to generate configuration audit diff for ConfigChange SNMP traps

Certificate management

How to configure an enterprise policy on NetScaler Console
How to install SSL certificates on a NetScaler instance from NetScaler Console
How to update an installed certificate from NetScaler Console
How to link and unlink SSL certificates by using NetScaler Console
How to create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) by using NetScaler Console
How to set up notifications for SSL certificate expiry from NetScaler Console
How to use the SSL dashboard on NetScaler Console
How to poll SSL certificates from NetScaler Instances

StyleBooks

How to view different groups of StyleBooks
How to create your own StyleBooks
How to use user-defined StyleBooks in NetScaler Console
How to use API to create configurations from StyleBooks
How to enable analytics and configure alarms on a virtual server defined in a StyleBook
How to create a StyleBook to upload files to NetScaler Console
How to use API to create configurations to upload any file type
How to create a StyleBook to upload SSL certificate and certificate key files to NetScaler Console
How to use API to create configurations to upload cert and key files
How to use Microsoft Skype for Business StyleBook in business enterprises
How to use Microsoft Exchange StyleBook in business enterprises
How to use Microsoft SharePoint StyleBook in business enterprises

Analytics

How to enable analytics on instances
How to configure adaptive thresholds
How to configure SLA management
How to configure database summarization for analytics
How to create thresholds and alerts using NetScaler Console
How to disable URL data collection for analytics from NetScaler Console

Event management

How to set event age for events on NetScaler Console
How to schedule an event filter by using NetScaler Console
How to set repeated email notifications for events from NetScaler Console
How to suppress events by using NetScaler Console
How to use the events dashboard to monitor events
How to create event rules on NetScaler Console
How to modify the reported severity of events that occur on NetScaler instances
How to view the events summary in NetScaler Console
How to display event severities and skews of SNMP traps on NetScaler Console
How to export syslog messages using NetScaler Console
How to suppress syslog messages in NetScaler Console
How to configure prune settings for instance events

Authentication

How to enable fallback and cascade external authentication servers
How to add RADIUS authentication servers
How to add LDAP authentication servers
How to add TACACS authentication servers
How to extract authentication server group in NetScaler Console
How to enable fallback local authentication

NetScaler Console system

How to upgrade NetScaler Console
How to reset the password for NetScaler Console
How to generate a tech support file for NetScaler Console
How to back up and restore your NetScaler Console server in a single server deployment
How to back up and restore a NetScaler Console configuration in an HA pair
How to enable shell access for non-default users in NetScaler Console
How to configure NTP server on NetScaler Console
How to configure SSL settings for NetScaler Console
How to configure syslog purging interval for NetScaler Console
How to view auditing information of NetScaler Console
How to configure system notification settings of NetScaler Console
How to monitor CPU, memory, and disk usage of NetScaler Console
How to configure a cipher group for NetScaler Console
How to create SNMP traps, managers, and users on NetScaler Console
How to assign a host name to a NetScaler Console server
How to configure system prune settings for NetScaler Console
How to configure system backup settings by using NetScaler Console
How to configure and view system alarms on NetScaler Console

Network functions

How to generate reports for load balancing entities
How to export or schedule export of network functions reports