Citrix Recevier for iPad shows “Error” but Reciever for Android works

Posted on February 21st, 2012

Came across  this interesting problem today.

Users connecting to a XenApp deployment via a Netscaler 9.3 & CAG Enterprise Edition using the Citrix receiver for iPad and Android. Web Interface for Netscaler was used to provide the XenApp services site.

The Android receiver worked as expected but the iPhone/iPad receiver did not enumerate the apps. On the creation of a new connection, the following errors were shown:

• iPhone: There are no applications available at this time
• iPad: Error

After much messing about, it seems that when creating a XenApp service site on the Netscaler, a checkbox is provided stating “enable connection through mobile receiver”. When this is selected a few “rewrite” rules are created to resolve a problem with the iPad/iPhone receiver connections but the rewrite feature is not enabled at the same time on the Netscaler. Simply right clicking the “rewrite” menu in the left panel and selecting to enable the feature is enough to resolve the problem.

After doing this, all mobile receivers can connect as expected.

Tags: CAG, CAG EE, CAGEE, checkbox, Citrix, Citrix Access Gateway, Citrix Netscaler, citrix receiver, enterprise, enterprise edition, error, ipad, iphone, ipod, mobile receiver, rewrite
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Customize Page title & favicon on Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition

Posted on July 13th, 2010

The defaut page title and fav icon logo appear on the browser tab when connecting to the Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition.

Shown here:

It is possible to replace the logo with your own one and change the text to be more appropriate.

Logo

The logo is:  /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/images/AccessGateway.ico

replace with your own .ico file but keep the same file name

Browser title text

The title text is in two places

First: /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/index.html

Search for the section:

<TITLE>Citrix Access Gateway</TITLE>

and change to your text

<TITLE>My CAG Text</TITLE>

Second: /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/resources/en.xml

Search for the multiple sections:

<Title>Citrix Access Gateway</Title>

and change all of them to your text

<Title>My CAG Text</Title>

Keep changes after reboot

Copy the modified files to /var/mods and add the following lines to the /nsconfig/rc.netscaler file

cp /var/mods/images/AccessGateway.ico /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/images/AccessGateway.ico
cp /var/mods/index.html /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/index.html
cp /var/mods/en.xml /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/resources/en.xml

New look and feel

Now it will look how you want.

Tags: CAG, CAG EE, CAG Enterprise, CAG Enterprise Edition, CAGEE, Citrix Netscaler, customisation, favicon.ico, modification, title
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Customize logos on Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition Logon Screen

Posted on July 12th, 2010

This is based on Netscaler version 9.2 Build 46.9.cl although nothing appears to have changed from previous versions, so the same information will probably work on most Access Gateway Enterprise versions (CAG EE)

Change to a white theme

This is detailed in several places but most notably here: CTX123607

This gives the default logon screen in white.

Identify the images used

Here is a screen shot of the default view and list of the associated images & resolutions

There are five main images used in this page and they are:

I have found it better to stick to the same dimensions when replacing these images as sometimes the style sheets need to be modified to allow larger image sizes. If you can, stick to the same dimensions.

The background for image 1 & 2 is in the image itself. If you want to keep the same shading and blue bar, then edit the existing image and keep the background.The same applies for the logon logo (image 3) as the shading is part of the image.

To modify the border glow it is best to open up the existing image and use the dropper tool to fill the line in the desired colour.

File locations

These image files need to be copied to the /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn_images location on the Netscaler device. However, when the netscaler is rebooted the changes are lost so they must be copied here at every startup.

Copy all the images to a folder under the /var/ folder (I use /var/mods/) and this can be the store for all modifications.

Startup script

The /nsconfig/rc.netscaler file runs at every boot, so add entries to this file to copy the modified files from the /var/mods/ folder to the correct location. For example,

tar -zxvf /var/mods/AGEEwhite.gz -C /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/images
cp /var/mods/images/ctxHeader01.gif /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/images/ctxHeader01.gif
cp /var/mods/images/ctxHeader02.gif /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/images/ctxHeader02.gif
cp /var/mods/images/CitrixWatermark.gif /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/images/CitrixWatermark.gif
cp /var/mods/images/LoginIcon.png /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/images/LoginIcon.png
cp /var/mods/images/LoginPaneCenterLeftBorderGlow.png /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/images/LoginPaneCenterLeftBorderGlow.png
cp /var/mods/images/LoginPaneCenterRightBorderGlow.png /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/images/LoginPaneCenterRightBorderGlow.png
cp /var/mods/images/LoginPaneFooterLeftBorderGlow.png /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/images/LoginPaneFooterLeftBorderGlow.png
cp /var/mods/images/LoginPaneFooterMidBorderGlow.png /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/images/LoginPaneFooterMidBorderGlow.png
cp /var/mods/images/LoginPaneFooterRightBorderGlow.png /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/images/LoginPaneFooterRightBorderGlow.png
cp /var/mods/images/LoginPaneTopLeftBorderGlow.png /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/images/LoginPaneTopLeftBorderGlow.png
cp /var/mods/images/LoginPaneTopMidBorderGlow.png /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/images/LoginPaneTopMidBorderGlow.png
cp /var/mods/images/LoginPaneTopRightBorderGlow.png /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn/images/LoginPaneTopRightBorderGlow.png

Final steps

Ensure you boot the netscaler device to confirm the start up script is running correctly and make the same changes to the secondary device if running in an HS pair.

The web page can now look how you want it to!

enjoy

Tags: CAG, CAG EE, CAG Enterprise, CAG Enterprise Edition, CAGEE, Citrix Access Gateway, Citrix Netscaler, color, colour, header image, image, look and feel, modification, watermark
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Upgrading a Netscaler 7000 device from v7.0 to v9.1 build 101.5

Posted on April 9th, 2010

I used this process to update a Netscaler 7000 device from v7.0 to v9.1 build 101.5

• Download Firmware from Citrix.com
• Download Firmware documentation from Citrix.com
• Use WinSCP or similar to connect to the Netscaler and create the following folders:
  • /var/nsinstall/nsinstall91/build1015/
• Copy the two downloaded updates into this folder
• Using puTTy or similar, connect to the Netscaler
• Uncompress the updates
  • shell
  • cd ..
  • cd var
  • cd nsinstall
  • cd nsinstall91
  • cd build1015
  • tar –zxvf build_9.1-101.5_cl.tgz
  • tar -zxvf ns-9.1-101.5-doc.tgz
• Run the update
  • ./installns
  • Reboot: Y

I updated a High Availability pair and did the secondary device first. Once the reboot was finished, I forced a failover to test the update and then repeated the same process on the other device.

Tags: 101.5, 7.0, Citrix Netscaler, firmware, installns, nsinstall, tar, update, upgrade
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Citrix XML Service DNS Address Resolution & Access Gateway Enterprise SSL error 38

Posted on April 9th, 2010

I recently set up a Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise solution on a pair of netscaler 7000 devices running v9.1 build 101.5.

It was set up in traditional ‘smart access’ configuration and the Web Interface site was configured for 3 seperate farms – XenApp4.5, XenDesktop 4 & Presentation Server 4.0.

Launching sessions through the CAG for the XenApp farm was fine, but I was getting an SSL error 38 – The proxy denied access to message for the other two farms.

In checking the settings I noticed that the farms that produced the error had the ‘XML Service DNS address resolution’ option selected in the farm properties.

Unselecting this option enabled remote connections to work as normal, however this option was required and needed to be re-enabled.

It turns out that the firewall rules had not been set up properly from the DMZ to the DNS servers, so the Netscaler devices were unable to perform DNS lookups. As soon as the Firewall settings were resolved, the Netscalers could perform DNS lookups and resolved the problem.

Tags: CAG Enterprise, Citrix Netscaler, DNS, ssl error 38, the proxy denied access to, XML Service DNS Address resolution
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