last update: October 2nd 2018 This is the second part of debugging logon. The first one, a network trace about LDAP, may be found here. Citrix ADC / NetScaler logs all events related to AAA (authentication, authorization, auditing) to /tmp/aaad.debug You need to be nsroot or superuser to successfully log on to the BSD shell. This is a requirement to change to BSD shell. Change to the /tmp...
last update: November 3rd 2020 This is the first part of debugging logon problems. The second one, an explanation of aaad.debug log, may be found here. Recently I had to debug LDAP authentication on Citrix ADC / NetScaler and I started digging deeper. I wanted to know how LDAP authentication really works, so I did what I always do in a case like that: I started with a network trace. Attention: in...
last update: 2023/02/03 Tested with NetScaler 11, Citrix ADC 12.1, 13.0, 14.1 I needed to use a Citrix ADC (NetScaler) both, as a SAML identity provider (IDP) and service provider (SP). So I set up my test environment accordingly. What my test environment looked like: You see, I created two admin partitions on my Citrix NetScaler ADC, one for the service provider (SP partition), containing both...