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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)

Monitoring with Citrix® Director


Citrix Administrators and helpdesk engineers can monitor Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop sites with Citrix Director, where administrators can access the configuration logging database, or by using the site's monitor service's API, with the OData protocol.

Administrators can monitor the following:

  • Historical trends

  • Infrastructure

  • Connection failures

  • Session usage

  • User sessions

  • Login performance

  • Load evaluation

  • Machines States and Failures

Director can access the following:

  • Personal vDisk data that allows for runtime monitoring showing base allocation and gives the IT helpdesk the ability to reset the Personal vDisk.

  • Historical data stored in the Monitor database to access the Configuration Logging database.

  • Real-time data from the Broker Agent using a unified console integrated with EdgeSight features, Performance Manager, and Network Inspector.

  • ICA data from the NetScaler Gateway using HDX Insight.

Citrix Director uses a troubleshooting dashboard that provides real-time health...