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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp?? 7.6

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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp?? 7.6

Overview of this book

If you want to effectively deploy the various components of Citrix XenApp to create an enterprise environment for application and desktop delivery, this hands-on guide is perfect for you. You start off by understanding the need and benefits of Citrix XenApp with respect to Virtualization technology. After this, you will get to grips with the requirement analysis and designing aspect of building XenApp systems and all the necessary installation and configuration procedures for Citrix XenApp, StoreFront and NetScalar Gateway are explained one by one in detail. Step-by-step, you will learn to deploy your first XenApp with the Machine Creation Services method and Provisioning Services method. After this, you will explore the administering part of applications and systems, followed by printing in the XenApp environment. Next, you will learn all the trips and tricks required to troubleshoot and support the XenApp environment. By the end of this book, you will be ready to go live with your new XenApp environment.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 7.6
Notice
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Building Your First XenApp Farm – Provisioning Services™
Index

Monitoring the XenApp® site


Even though the delegated administration model adds solid structure to the XenApp permission model, no organization can function efficiently without the proper monitoring tools in place. In fact, monitoring is not just a necessity, it's an industry! Sometimes, it feels like there are so many monitoring applications that it's hard to choose the right one that combines powerful tools with cost effectiveness. Companies, such as Lakeside Software, SolarWinds, Extrahop, and ControlUp develop and sell enterprise-ready monitoring software used by many companies in the end user computing space. There is also a web-based tool called Citrix Director that comes free with the XenApp 7.6 ISO. Director can be installed on an IIS-enabled server and can reside on the same machine as the Delivery Controller. The console provides visibility into the entire XenApp site, including session count, user logon times, active processes and open applications, launch failures, and others...