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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)

Communication channels


While XenDesktop/XenApp uses a large number of ports to communicate between components, the most common ones are:

  • Ports 80/443 used by Receiver to connect to StoreFront

  • Port 1494 when the ICA/HDX protocol starts

  • Port 2598 for Session reliability (if enabled)

  • Ports 80/8080/443 for the XML service and 2513 for the Citrix Management console

The following table illustrates the complete list of ports used by XenApp/XenDesktop 7.5 and later:

Source

Description

Type

Port (s)

Details

User (External)

NS Gateway

Internal Network through

TCP

443

 

User (Internal)

StoreFront

TCP

80/443

Connecting to the Store or Receiver for the website hosted on the StoreFront server.

Delivery Controller

Active Directory

TCP

389/636

 

Delivery Controller

Microsoft SQL Server

TCP

1433

 

Delivery Controller

Citrix License Server

TCP

2700/7279

 

Delivery Controller

XenServer

TCP

80/443

 

Delivery Controller

Microsoft SCVMM Server

TCP

8100

Communication with the Hyper-V infrastructure...