Thursday, December 23, 2010

Netscaler and Citrix Web Interface Setup

This guide assumes you have setup a basic Netscaler (e.g. DNS, NTP, IP) and Citrix Web Interface

Netscaler

Enable Access Gateway features
Access Gateway - Policies - Authentication - Servers (tab)
Add the domain controller

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Access Gateway - Policies - Authentication - Policies (tab)
Add a new policy

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Select the Server created earlier and add ns_true as expression

Access Gateway - Policies - Session - Profiles (tab)
Add a new profile

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Change the Web Interface Address to your local web interface server path
Change the Single Sign-On Domain to your Active Directory domain

Access Gateway - Policies - Session - Policies (tab)
Add a new Policy

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Add the ns_true expression
Change the Request Profile to the profile created earlier

Access Gateway - Virtual Servers
Add a new virtual server

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Give an IP address
Select the SSL certificate (click here how to add SSL certificate to NetScaler)

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Insert the policy created earlier

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Add the URL to the STA

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Citrix Web Interface

Create a new XenApp Web Sites
Authentication Point: At Access Gateway
Available Method: Explicit
Authentication Method:

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Add the URL (https) that is publicly available for the user

Secure Access: Gateway Direct

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Enter the publicly available URL to the address

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Add the STA URL exactly the same with the STA servers you added to the Netscaler