The Citrix Cloud Connector requires port 443 to be open to allow access to the Internet. In your Citrix Cloud environment, you may want to have your Connector machines isolated from outside access. You can put your connectors in a private network and route all web communication through a proxy server.

Instructions

The proxy server used in this example is Fiddler, which can be obtained from:

http://www.telerik.com/download/fiddler

After you install fiddler, you need to configure it:

1. Change the listener port to your desired port. In this example, port 8080 is used.

2. Check the box “Allow remote computer to connect”.
   

3. Restart Fiddler and make sure it is capturing traffic in the file menu.
   

The proxy machine is now ready for network traffic to pass through it.

Next, you will need to set up each connector machine:

1. On your connector machine, open Internet Options and on the Connections tab, click on “LAN settings”.

2. Under Proxy server, check “Use a proxy server” and enter the IP address of the proxy server as well as the port that was set up on Fiddler.
   

3. Make sure under “Advanced” that all of the servers have inherited what you put in on the previous screen.
   

4. To set the OS to use the proxy settings, open a powershell window and type the following command: netsh winhttp import proxy source=ie

You should see something like the following after you hit enter:

Restart the machine so that all the services can pick up the changes.

Once the machine comes back online, do a quick sanity test by going to citrix.com in your web browser and make sure that the page loads successfully.

Now you can install the Citrix Cloud Connector as you normally would. All communication pre-flight tests should pass, installation should be successful, and the post install connectivity tests should pass. Now all of the Connector traffic is successfully going through the proxy.