This trace study looks at a successful application launch via NetScaler Gateway.

This example trace was carried out in a practice lab environment with the following IP addresses:
VIP:10.90.33.172
NSIP:10.90.41.200
SNIP:192.168.0.2
Client: 10.90.41.87
SF: 192.168.0.6
XA: 192.168.0.3

Instructions

Filter trace for http.request.uri contains launch:

Locate LaunchICA (frame 22932):

Search for STA ticket number taken from ICA file identified above:

Should see POST to Storefront server (frame 25468):

Follow that stream (25468) to see ticket exchange for target IP/FQDN:

Clear trace, filter for DNS to locate DNS query for FQDN returned by Storefront:

Filter for IP address returned by DNS query:

ICA traffic on port 2598 is now visible - launch complete!

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