Chapter 4. AAA for Traffic Management
The authentication feature for Web Applications in NetScaler goes by the name of AAA for Traffic Management (AAA for TM). Authentication is a critical area on NetScaler, as more and more enterprises continue to make their services available over the Internet. In this chapter we will cover the following topics, including troubleshooting:
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS)
- Certificate authentication
- NTLM and Form Based Authentication (FBA)
- Kerberos, which is fast and quite mature in the enterprise
- SAML
Authentication is one of those areas where knowing the flow that one should expect to see in a trace goes a long way in helping with troubleshooting. The observations made from looking at a successful authentication can serve as a baseline and help in detecting the main point of failure. Once at this point, we can then turn our attention to the individual failures and the reasons for them...
