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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)

NetScaler® issues


Citrix NetScaler is another important component in the XenApp and XenDesktop environment.

In Chapter 1, Basic Troubleshooting Methodology, we have already seen the uses and advantages of NetScaler Gateway in a XenApp environment.

Scenario 1 – user not able to change the password

Users who access the web interface on NetScaler are not able to change their expired password on login.

The environment details are as follows:

  • Citrix XenApp: XenApp 6.5 Enterprise Edition

  • Citrix NetScaler: NetScaler Software release 9.3 nCore

  • StoreFront / Web interface: Citrix web interface

    "Unable to change expired password using web interface on Citrix NetScaler."
    

Troubleshooting

Proceed with the following steps:

  1. For testing, try to configure a direct PNAgent site to access web interface for thin clients on NetScaler.

  2. Verify the webinterface.conf file and update it as follows:

    Default Configuration
    AllowUserPasswordChange=Never
    PNAChangePasswordMethod=Direct-Only
    
    Change To
    AllowUserPasswordChange...