Citrix ADM (Application Delivery Manager) is a centralised solution for the management, monitoring and troubleshooting of all your Citrix ADC (Application Delivery Controller) and Citrix SD-WAN appliances.

It provides a single pane of glass view from which you can perform all the tasks you need for example, Add new devices, edit configurations, backup/restore configurations, monitor traffic, report and alert and much, much more.

A Citrix ADM (Application Delivery Manager) Agent is an “intermediary” ADM device between the main Citrix ADM Server, either on-premise or in the Cloud and the discovered instances at different data centres/sites.

The agent is used when instances that require management are in remote sites and collect appropriate information from those local instances and passes the data back to the Citrix ADM server.

The Citrix ADM Agent provides a local point for instances to communicate with and then the Agent will communicate with the remote ADM Server. The benefit is that only the agent communicates with the remote ADM server minimising WAN traffic and firewall port configurations.

Once the Citrix ADM (Application Delivery Manager) server is installed and licenced appropriately you can connect using a supported browser over port 80 or 443. From this browser you can perform all the management, monitoring and troubleshooting you need.

For example, you can add instances to the ADM server. Instances are Citrix appliances identified to the ADM server by adding their management IP’s (for ADC’s this is the NSIP).

Once these devices are added and discovered by the ADM server, the ADM server can then, using NITRO calls, SNMP, SSH and SCP protocols initiate the transfer of information such as appliance Inventory, licence, certificate details etc. It can also perform configurations and firmware updates.

All this information is then processed by the Citrix ADM server and stored in the internal database for current and future reporting/use.

Citrix ADM (Application Delivery Manager) licensing is different depending on what your requirements are.  To manage and monitor a Citrix ADC Instance the Citrix ADC instance must have verified licence. You can manage and monitor any number of Citrix ADC instances without any further licence other than the valid Citrix ADC licence.

To manage more than 30 discovered applications on the dashboard (vservers) you will require a further licence. Up to 30 is currently free. (this may change in the future).  The longevity of the data stored for this Analytics data then dependent on the Citrix ADC Licence.

If the Citrix ADC has an Advanced Licence then reporting is < 1hour

If the Citrix ADC has a Premium Licence then reporting is “unlimited”

Citrix ADM (Application Delivery Manager) is the new name for what was called Citrix NetScaler Management and Analytics Service (MAS)

We are happy to help you get set up with Citrix ADM. Get in touch with us at info@enterprise-solutions.ie to arrange this with our expert team.