Default Parameters for CtxGwSslTest

A Citrix Cloud Gateway Connector configured for SSL acceleration transparently accelerates SSL transactions by offloading SSL processing from the server. To configure SSL offloading, you configure a virtual server to intercept and process SSL transactions, and send the decrypted traffic to the server (unless you configure end-to-end encryption, in which case the traffic is re-encrypted). Upon receiving the response from the server, the appliance completes the secure transaction with the client. From the client's perspective, the transaction seems to be directly with the server. The Citrix Cloud Gateway Connector configured for SSL acceleration also performs other configured functions, such as load balancing.

This test reveals how efficiently the target connector performs SSL acceleration. The metrics reported by this test provide administrators with indepth insights into the SSL session load on the appliance and the nature of SSL transactions (eg., SSLv1, SSLv2, TLSv1, etc.) that were performed during these sessions.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the CtxGwSslTest.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

• To monitor a Citrix Cloud Gateway Connector, the eG agent should be configured with the credentials of a user with read-only privileges to the target connector. Specify the credentials of such a user in the USERNAME and PASSWORD text boxes.

• Confirm the password by retyping it in CONFIRM PASSWORD text box.

• By default, the SSL flag is set to No indicating that the eG agent will communicate with the connector via HTTP by default. If the target connector is SSL-enabled, then set this flag to Yes to enable the eG agent to communicate with target connector via HTTPS.

• Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the UPDATE button will register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with “$” indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to “xyz*” and $port will be changed to “80” when configuring a test.