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Configuring Settings for Your Citrix Endpoint Management Environment

January 4, 2021
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The Citrix ADC for Citrix Endpoint Management wizard guides you through the configuration of Citrix ADC features for your Citrix Endpoint Management deployment. You can use the wizard to:

  • Set up a Micro VPN. In this scenario, remote users can access apps and desktops in the internal network.

    • For Citrix Endpoint Management MAM-only mode, you must use Citrix Gateway for authentication.

    • For MDM deployments, Citrix recommends Citrix Gateway for mobile device VPN.

    • For ENT deployments, if a user opts out of MDM enrollment, the device operates in the legacy MAM mode and enrolls using the Citrix Gateway FQDN.

  • Configure certificate-based authentication. The default configuration for Citrix Endpoint Management is user name and password authentication. To add another layer of security for enrollment and access to the Citrix Endpoint Management environment, consider using certificate-based authentication.
  • Load balance Citrix Endpoint Management servers. Citrix ADC load balancing is required for all Citrix Endpoint Management device modes if you have multiple Citrix Endpoint Management servers or if the Citrix Endpoint Management is inside your DMZ or internal network (and therefore traffic flows from devices to Citrix ADC to Citrix Endpoint Management). In this scenario, the Citrix ADC appliance resides in the DMZ between the user device and the Citrix Endpoint Management servers to load balance encrypted sent data from mobile devices to the Citrix Endpoint Management servers.
  • Load balance Microsoft Exchange servers with email filtering. In this scenario, the Citrix ADC appliance is between the user device and the Citrix Endpoint Management Citrix ADC Connector (XNC), and between the user device and the Microsoft Exchange CAS servers. All requests from user devices go to the Citrix Gateway appliance, which then communicates with the XNC to retrieve information about the device. Depending on the response from the XNC, the Citrix ADC appliance either forwards the request from a whitelisted device to the server in the internal network, or drops the connection from a blacklisted device.
  • Load balance ShareFile StorageZones Connectors based on the type of content requested. This scenario prompts you for basic information about your storage zones controller environment and then generates a configuration that does the following:
    • Load balances traffic across storage zones controllers.
    • Provides user authentication for StorageZones Connectors.
    • Validates URI signatures for ShareFile uploads and downloads.
    • Terminates SSL connections at the Citrix ADC appliance.

For more information about configuring ShareFile, see Configure Citrix ADC for storage zones controller.

Important

Before you use the Citrix Endpoint Management wizard, be sure to refer to these Citrix Endpoint Management Deployment articles for design and deployment information and recommendations:

Citrix Endpoint Management Integration

Integrating with Citrix Gateway and Citrix ADC

SSO and Proxy Considerations for MDX Apps

Authentication

You can use the Citrix ADC for Citrix Endpoint Management wizard only once. If you want multiple Citrix Endpoint Management instances, such as for test, development, and production environments, you must configure Citrix ADC for the additional environments manually. The following support articles list the commands run by the wizard and provide instructions for running them to create a Citrix ADC instance:

Commands Generated by Citrix Endpoint Management Wizard on Citrix ADC - SSL Bridge

Commands Generated by Citrix Endpoint Management Wizard on Citrix ADC - SSL Offload

License Requirements for Citrix ADC Features

You must install licenses to enable the following Citrix ADC features:

  • Citrix Endpoint Management MDM load balancing requires a Citrix ADC standard license.
  • ShareFile load balancing with StorageZones requires a Citrix ADC standard license.
  • Exchange load balancing requires a Citrix ADC license or an Advanced license with the addition of an Integrated Caching license.

Citrix ADC for Citrix Endpoint Management Wizard

This section provides an example of using the Citrix ADC for Citrix Endpoint Management wizard to:

  • Set up micro VPN access for remote user connections to Citrix Endpoint Management-managed resources in your internal network
  • Configure certificate-based authentication. For information about obtaining and installing a public SSL certificate, see Installing and Managing Certificates.
  • Configure load balancing for Citrix Endpoint Management servers.

To use the wizard:

  1. In the configuration utility, click the Configuration tab and then click Citrix Endpoint Management.
  2. Select your Citrix Endpoint Management version and then click Get Started.

  3. Select the check boxes for the features you want to configure. Keep in mind that you can use this wizard only once, so you’ll must perform subsequent configuration manually. These instructions assume that you select the following settings: Access through Citrix Gateway (for Citrix Endpoint Management running in ENT or MAM modes) Load Balance Citrix Endpoint Management Servers

    Select features

  4. On the Citrix Gateway Settings page, enter values for the external facing Citrix Gateway IP Address, Port, and Virtual Server Name.

    Gateway configuration

  5. On the Server Certificate for Citrix Gateway page, from the Certificate File drop-down menu, choose the certificate file from Local or Appliance. If your certificate is on a local machine:

    Select server certificate

    If your certificate is on the appliance:

    Server certificates on the appliance

  6. In the Authentication Settings page, in the Primary authentication method field, select Client Certificate.

    This automatically selects Use existing certificate policy and Cert Auth in the next two fields. The following steps assume that you already have a certificate policy.

    If you must create a certificate policy, click Create certificate policy and complete the settings. On the Citrix Endpoint Management Certificate screen, choose an existing server certificate or install a new certificate. If you’re running multiple Citrix Endpoint Management servers, you add a certificate for each one. For Server Logon Name Attribute, specify userPrincipalName or samAccountName, per your requirements.

    Authentication configuration

    • Select Click here to change the CA certificate and then in the Browse list, navigate to the CA certificate you want.

      Search CA certificate

    • With the client certificate as your primary authentication type, you have the option of configuring LDPA (or RADIUS) as the secondary authentication type.

      To use client certificate authentication only, leave Second authentication method as None and then click Continue.

      To use client certificate + domain (LDAP) authentication, change Second authentication method to LDAP and configure the authentication server settings.

    • On the Device certificate screen, if the certificate is not already installed, you must export this certificate from the Citrix Endpoint Management console: From the console, click the gear icon in the upper-right corner to open the Settings screen.

    • Click Certificate and then choose the CA certificate from the list.

    • Click Export.

    • Return to the Citrix ADC wizard and select the certificate you exported (downloaded) to install it.

    • Click Continue.

    The Citrix Endpoint Management IP addresses that you’ve configured appear.

  7. Configure the Citrix Endpoint Management App Management Settings.

    Endpoint Management settings

    • Enter the Citrix Endpoint Management FQDN. This is the load balancing FQDN for MAM.
    • Enter a MAM-only Internal Load Balancing IP Address for the virtual server that load balances Citrix Endpoint Management servers. Citrix Gateway communicates with the Citrix Endpoint Management through this MAM load balancing virtual IP.
    • This is an SSL offload deployment, so select HTTP in Communication with Citrix Endpoint Management Server.
    • The Split DNS mode for MicroVPN field automatically sets to BOTH.

    If your deployment requires split tunneling, select Enable split tunneling. Configure Intranet Application Binding, next, if you enable split tunneling.

    By default, Secure Web access is tunneled to the internal network, which means that Secure Web uses a per-application VPN tunnel back to the internal network for all network access and the Citrix ADC appliance uses split tunnel settings.

    CEM settings

  8. To configure interception rules for user connections on Citrix Gateway, you must configure Intranet Application Binding. Click + to add a binding.

    Add intranet application binding

  9. Complete the parameters for allowing network access and then click Create.

    Intranet application details

  10. Add the Citrix Endpoint Management certificate. This is used for the MAM load balancing virtual server.

    Adding CEM certificate

  11. Under Citrix Endpoint Management Servers, click Add Server to add the Citrix Endpoint Management IP Address to bind to the load balancing virtual IP.

    Select virtual server

  12. On the Citrix ADC dashboard, confirm that Citrix Gateway and Citrix Endpoint Management load balancing are configured as follows.

    Dashboard

    If you use sAMAccount attributes in the user certificates as an alternative to User Principal Name (UPN), configure the certificate profile as described in Manually Configuring Citrix Gateway for Client Certificate Authentication.

Configuring Settings for Your Citrix Endpoint Management Environment
January 4, 2021
Contributed by: 
C
January 4, 2021
Contributed by: 
C

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