What You'll Learn

Upon successful completion of this course, learners are able to demonstrate the following objectives:

• Understand how the Access Gateway Enterprise Edition differs from the Standard and Advanced Editions.
• Perform the initial configuration of the Access Gateway server.
• Install Access Gateway Plug-ins for Windows, ActiveX and Java.
• Configure VPN virtual servers.
• Create policies to customize VPN behavior.
• Customize client experience and login pages.
• Configure Access Gateway to integrate with XenApp and WANScaler.
• Create and configure policies and profiles.

Who Needs to Attend

This course is intended for IT professionals, system architects and system engineers. systems integrators, systems administrators, and application engineers

Pre-requisites

Before taking this course, Citrix recommends that learners possess the following knowledge/experience:

• Basic knowledge of application and network protocols, devices and commonly used tools (such as IP, HTTP and DNS)
• Basic knowledge of network management and auditing protocols (such as SNMP and Syslog)
• Working knowledge of basic routing and layer 2 switching concepts
• Working knowledge of commonly used network appliances (such as load balancers, firewalls, routers and switches)
• Practical experience with troubleshooting tools (such as protocol analyzers Ethereal/WireShark and NetMon)
• Knowledge of AAA (authentication, authorization and accounting) protocols (such as LDAP or RADIUS)
• Basic knowledge of command line interfaces
• Basic knowledge of VPN concepts
• Knowledge of desktop operating systems and desktop security concepts (such as antivirus software and personal firewalls)

Course Outline

Deploying the Citrix Access Gateway

• Access Gateway Features
• Access Gateway Product Line
• Identifying Access Gateway Hardware Platforms
• Identifying the Access Gateway Hardware Components
• Identifying Network Placement Options
• WANScaler Integration
• Identifying Deployment Considerations

Performing an Initial Installation and Configuration

• Access Gateway Installation
• Logging in to the Access Gateway
• Setting the Password
• Managing Licensing
• Enabling Access Gateway Features
• Initial Configuration
• Understanding Virtual Local Area Networks
• Running the Access Gateway Wizard
• Saving the Configuration

Performing Basic Administration

• Access Gateway Administrative Tools
• Introducing the Configuration Utility
• Introducing the Command-Line Interface
• Introducing FreeBSD
• Using Third-Party Tools
• Access Gateway Management
• Performing an Upgrade
• Managing Role-Based Administration

Configuring Policies

• Policy Structure
• Policy Types and Their Uses
• Policy Expressions Identifying Qualifiers
• Identifying Operators
• Identifying Operands, Wildcards and Context-Sensitive Fields
• Policy Priority
• Policy Manager
• Using Policy Manager
• Creating Policy Expressions

Configuring Access Policies

• Endpoint Analysis
• Configuring Pre-Authentication Policies
• Authentication Policies
• Configuring Authentication Policies
• Authorization Policies
• Configuring Authorization Policies
• Session Policies
• Configuring Credential Passing
• Timeout Settings
• Configuring Timeout Settings
• Client Cleanup
• Configuring Client Cleanup
• Split Tunneling
• Configuring Split Tunneling

Providing User Access

• Plugin Options and Configuration
• Displaying Client Options and the Configuration Window
• Connection Methods
• Deploying Access Gateway Plugins
• Configuring Clientless Access
• Client Software Selection
• Configuring Access Choices

Customizing the User Experience

• Intranet Applications
• Configuring Intranet Applications
• Intranet IP Addresses.
• Configuring Intranet IP Addresses
• Traffic Policies
• Configuring Traffic Policies
• TCP Compression Policies
• Configuring TCP Compression Policies
• Login Page Customization

Securing XenApp Connections

• XenApp Overview
• ICA Proxy Mode
• Configuring ICA Proxy Mode
• Binding the Secure Ticket Authority
• Configuring Web Interface Failover
• Web Interface Connections through Access Gateway
• Configuring Web Interface for Access Gateway Connections
• File Type Association
• Configuring File Type Association
• SmartAccess
• Configuring SmartAccess
• Configuring XenApp for SmartAccess
• Configuring Access Scenario Fallback

Auditing and Logging

• Syslog and Nslog Auditing
• Configuring Audit Servers
• Configuring Global Auditing Parameters
• Configuring Auditing Policies
• Binding Auditing Policies
• Viewing Recent Audit Messages
• Viewing Historical Audit Messages
• Access Gateway Log Management
• Monitoring Tool
• User Connection Management
• Historical Reporting

Configuring High Availability

• Introduction to High Availability
• High Availability Node Configuration
• Configuring Nodes
• Verifying High Availability Status
• Performing Synchronization
• Performing a Forced Failover
• High Availability Management