XenDesktop is monitored using Director. Director is a web-based monitoring tool that ties in nicely with XenDesktop roles, which determine what can be displayed. With XenDesktop Director, you can view the status of sessions, users, and Site infrastructure. With XenDesktop Director, you can also view the users' applications and processes inside their virtual desktop and quickly help them out by ending the unresponsive applications or processes. You can even restart users' machines for them.

Director is installed by default as a website on the XenDesktop Delivery Controller. You can also install it on a separate server. In our network diagram, we have Studio and Director installed on separate servers.

As previously mentioned, role-based administration is new in XenDesktop 7.x and uses roles that you can define in addition to the administrator role. Several of the roles are displayed in the following table: