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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)

Summary


In this chapter, we identified the components that are part of the XenDesktop/XenApp infrastructure and briefly discussed the role of each component in a site deployment and how they interact with each other.

To better understand where each component is used, we described the process of starting a published application and how each component comes into play.

We discussed the two main scenarios—accessing resources in an internal network and accessing resources externally using NetScaler Gateway.

We mentioned the communication channels (protocols and ports) used by the main components such as Receiver, the ICA/HDX protocols, and we provided the full list of ports and protocols used by the XenDesktop/XenApp services.

In the next chapter, we will discuss specific issues around XenApp/XenDesktop and StoreFront and learn how to identify and resolve them.