Citrix Command Center is a management and monitoring solution for the complete line of Citrix application networking products including Citrix NetScaler, Citrix Application Firewall, Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition, and Citrix WANScaler.

• Centralized management and performance reporting of the entire range of Application Networking products, including the Citrix NetScaler, Citrix WANScaler, Citrix Application Firewall and Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition devices.
• Centralized Configuration Management to configure multiple NetScalers from a single location. This reduces the possibility of mis-configurations, saves time and cost, and enhances manageability of a diversified NetScaler deployment substantially.
• Change Management and Configuration Auditing, which provides comprehensive visibility into the configurations of the managed NetScalers, allows administrators to track changes and synchronize changes across devices.
• Centralized SSL Certificate Management, which provides real time visibility into the status of all SSL certificates deployed on the managed NetScaler devices, and provides a central console from which administrators can renew and install new certificates.
• Alarm and Event Management, which provide NetScaler and WANScaler administrators the ability to configure granular thresholds for different aspects of system performance, be alerted when those thresholds are hit, and respond back quickly to changing traffic patterns or issues on the devices.
• Performance Monitoring and Reporting, using which administrators can generate historical reports, troubleshoot issues, and gather data that will help in capacity planning, resource utilization, uptime calculations, application loads etc.
• Security Auditing and Accounting, which ensures that only users authorized to use the Command Center are permitted to do so. Administrators can also specify highly granular rules and operations, that would allow partitioning of users into groups which can use only subsets of the Command Center's functionality, on an administrator specified subset of devices.

To ensure scalability of Command Center in user environments, version 3.1 also supports the following:

• Ability to run the Command Center server with an external instance of Oracle 10g or MySQL, allowing higher data storage scalability, and offering better data resiliency through clustered instances of these backend databases.
• User authentication through external AAA tools such as RADIUS, Active Directory and TACACS+, allowing for easy user and group management within Command Center

Command Center provides a rich HTML user interface to allow users to access the server remotely and centrally manage NetScaler deployments from remote locations.

Command Center can be installed on servers running Windows 2000+SP4 or Windows 2003, and Red Hat Linux AS/ES 3.0/4.0.

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regards,
Gus Pinto - Technology Evangelist
Microsoft MVP | Gus.Pinto@citrix.com
http://www.frameworkx.com