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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6

By : Guillermo Musumeci
Book Image

Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6

By: Guillermo Musumeci

Overview of this book

<p>XenApp 6 is the leader in application hosting and virtualization delivery, allowing users from different platforms such Windows, Mac, Linux, and mobile devices to connect to their business applications. It reduces resources and costs for application distribution and management. Using Citrix XenApp 6, you can deploy secure applications quickly to thousands of users.</p> <p><em>Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6</em> provides comprehensive details on how to design, implement, and maintain Citrix farms based on XenApp 6. Additionally, you will learn to use management tools and scripts for daily tasks such as managing servers, published resources, printers, and connections.</p> <p><em>Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6</em> starts by introducing the basics of XenApp such as installing servers and configuring components, and then teaches you how to publish applications and resources on the client device before moving on to configuring content redirection. Author Guillermo Musumeci includes a use case throughout the book to explain advanced topics like creating management scripts and deploying and optimizing XenApp for Citrix XenServer, VMware ESX, and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. It will guide you through an unattended installation of XenApp and components on physical servers. By the end of this book you will have enough knowledge to successfully design and manage your own XenApp 6 Farms.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Monitoring XenApp sessions


In this chapter, we are going to help William Empire and his team to manage sessions on the Brick Unit Construction farm, using the Citrix Delivery Services Console and the following procedure:

He opens the console, and selects the XenApp server on which he wants to monitor sessions.

In the results pane, he clicks on the Sessions tab. This tab shows sessions running on the XenApp

By default, the results pane shows the following information for all sessions (William can click the Choose columns link to specify which columns to display and the display order):

  • User: Username that initiated the session. The username of anonymous connections begins with "Anon" followed by a session number.

  • Session ID: This is a unique number that begins with 0 for the first connection to the console. Listener sessions are numbered from 65,537 and numbered backward sequentially.

  • Application Name: Name of the published application running in the session.

  • Type: Session type, ICA or RDP...