Evaluating Web Filter Appliances

Evaluating Web Filter Appliances Most of the enterprises would fall in need to enforcing restrictions and controlled access to internet for their users.  Establishing such a compliance among distributed users community in an enterprise requires a comprehensive solution.  Here am going to detail on various aspects to be considered for evaluating Web Filter Appliances for enterprises. Evaluation Criteria: Understand your internet access Policy and infrastructure requirements. What would be your internet access policy? Block all and allow only known or given specific list of web sites? Block unintended categories of web sites and create exclusions for your specific pages? Do […]

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Compreshensive list of Citrix Ports and Utility to test their status

Its very often requirement, while configuring or troubleshooting Citrix technologies w.r.t network access and issues, to know the ports that are being used by respective Citrix technology.  Here is a Compreshensive list of Citrix Ports and Utility to test their status. Compreshensive list of Citrix Ports 1.       ICA#1494< ?xml:namespace prefix = "o" /> 2.       RDP#3389 3.       CGP#2598 4.       IMA#2512 5.       AMC#2513 6.       XML#8080 7.       License Manager Daemon#27000 8.       Citrix Vendor Daemon#7279 9.       License Management Console#8082 10.   Citrix Receiver#80 11.   Citrix Receiver#443 12.   Offline Plug-in-SMB#445 13.   Power & Capacity Management Agent#11161 14.   SQL#1433 15.   Hyper-V#8100 16.   SSH#22 17.   VNC#5900 18.   NTP#123 […]

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Renaming Citrix XenServer Host hostname

You need to rename your existing XenServer host, here are the steps for hoe to do it. Renaming Citrix XenServer Host hostname Connect to the XenServer Console Connect to your XenServer via XenCenter Navigate to the Console of the XenServer In console, you usually see it running “Configuration” program as shown below You can also launch this Configuration program by running below command: [root@POC /]# xsconsole Rename the XenServer Select “Network and Management Interface”, click enter Select “”Configure Management Interface”, click enter Provide the login credentials to perform the operation Select the NIC that’s used by the xenserver, in my […]

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