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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)

Using EdgeSight®


Citrix EdgeSight is a performance monitoring and availability management solution. It is primarily used to monitor hosted applications, desktops, devices, sessions, license usage, and real-time network analysis.

Citrix EdgeSight allows you to define, examine, and categorize a resolution for performance issues from a single user interface. You can use EdgeSight to show notifications of performance problems, show hardware and software changes on systems, show system performance metrics over time, and show resources being used by the servers and systems.

Citrix EdgeSight allows support engineers to identify which server a user is logged on to and then show significant performance information. Also, an extensive range of network related reports is available that provide information about traffic in and out of the ICA client. Citrix EdgeSight helps to identify application issues (such as slowness or crashes) and identifies and defines whether the issue is a Citrix-related issue...