Citrix Application Delivery Management (ADC)

Citrix Application Delivery Management is the management and analytics layer for application delivery controllers. The product line now carries the NetScaler name, and the service has been rebranded NetScaler Console. It works as on-premises software or as a cloud service.

What Citrix Application Delivery Management offers

• Instance management — adding, configuring and upgrading NetScaler instances from one console.
• Analytics — performance, usage and availability of applications and infrastructure.
• Configuration templates — standard settings for common application delivery set-ups.
• Licence management — pooled capacity, check-in and check-out, and virtual CPU licensing.
• Security dashboard — shows violations, plus Gateway and HDX Insight views of remote access traffic.

Who it works with

Administrators running NetScaler controllers in data centres or in environments such as Azure, Hyper-V and KVM.

Key facts

• Controller functions: load balancing, SSL/TLS offload, web application firewall, bot mitigation and API protection
• Formats: software and hardware appliances