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Troubleshooting Citrix XenApp??

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Troubleshooting Citrix XenApp??

Overview of this book

Citrix XenApp® is an application virtualization product from Citrix. It allows users to connect to their corporate applications from various computer systems and even mobile devices. XenApp® has grown into a complex software with ever-expanding infrastructures in place. Together with tight integrations with other systems such as Terminal Services, Active Directory, and other third-party authentication services, troubleshooting XenApp® has become more complicated. This book teaches you how to approach troubleshooting complex issues with XenApp® deployments and understand the problem, find a fix or workaround, determine the root cause, and apply corrective steps wherever applicable. The book progresses to give you an idea about the many supportive components that play an important role in XenApp’s application delivery model and should be considered while troubleshooting XenApp® issues. It also shows you standard troubleshooting processes so that you can resolve complex XenApp® issues in a mission critical environment. By the end of this book, you will see how and where to use supportive components that help minimize XenApp® issues. Also, we’ll explain various tools that can be useful when monitoring and optimizing entire application and desktop delivery model.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Identifying components and roles


As of XenApp 7.5/7.6, there are several components we need to take into consideration when troubleshooting issues. Citrix administrators who have worked with previous versions of XenApp will find that some of the components have changed significantly after XenApp was moved to the FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA). With the older Independent Management Architecture (IMA) being dropped in favor of FlexCast, some of the core concepts have changed; farms are now called delivery sites, delivery controllers have replaced zone and data collectors, and worker groups have been replaced by session machine catalogs and delivery groups. The Citrix data store, which previously would use Microsoft Access database, is now a proper Microsoft SQL Server database.

We will discuss the following components of a XenApp site:

  • Database

  • Delivery controller

  • License server

  • Studio

  • Virtual delivery agent

  • Hypervisor

  • StoreFront

  • Receiver

  • NetScaler Gateway

The database component

A major rewrite...