NetScaler Console – Painpoints with LAS-Connect

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Overview

Customers need to connect their OnPrem NetScaler Console (if you don’t want to use the free NetScaler Console Service) to Citrix Cloud for LAS-Licensing before the 15th of April 2026.

Issue

When using a Proxy in NSC and you’re trying to configure LAS-Connect, there are two types of errors which I want to explain.

Connect OK, no Licenses shown

The first Issue before NSC Build 14.1 60.52 is, the Cloud-Connect is working fine, but your Licenses are never shown, it’s just blank without any errors:

For that, there’s an official NSHELP ID, which should be fixed beginning with 14.1 60.52:
NSHELP-41158 – LAS license retrieval fails in NetScaler Console on-prem when using a proxy with Cloud Connect to connect to NetScaler Console service.
Which brings us to another / the next issue.

Connect nOK

First, Firmware 14.1 60.52 had another update-issue, saying the DB is corrupt:

Workaround was Update via CLI or replacing the DbCorruptionCheck.py Script in /mps before hitting the last Upgrade button, because this file gets removed during pre-checks.

This is fixed with Build 14.1 60.54.
And the next issue with that Build (which should fix the Proxy-License-Issue, just to remind to) is, there’s happing no Cloud-Connect:

With a configured Proxy, the first Cloud-Connect (or if you use “Modify Tenant” to reconnect) will fail with a connectivity error.


No – your Proxy is not blocking anything, it’s another Bug – as soon as a Proxy is configured, the Auth-Popup to https://trust.citrixnetworkapi.net/root/trust/v1/identity?verify=XXXXX&mode=noResourceLocation&scenario=embedded will never show up, you can’t authenticate to Cloud and NSC doesn’t know where to connect to.

Workaround: First Cloud-Connect without Proxy, as soon as the connection is established, you can configure a Proxy for all following connections / LAS-usages.

Summary

Citrix is working on a fix, no ETA yet. If you can’t go without Proxy, it’s very difficult to switch to LAS for your NetScaler environment… I will update this Post as soon as I’m getting an update from the escalation engineer.

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