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EdgeSight: Timezone offsets

1 Comment Posted by on May 7, 2012

Intro If you have implemented any of the ad hoc SQL queries available on this site, you may have noticed that most time queries are offset by –4 or –5 hours. This is because the EdgeSight database uses GMT to record time and I am located in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone. In this post [...]

Reporting/Monitoring, SQL ,

Are You There EdgeSight? It’s me Worker

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 24, 2012

Intro If you rely on EdgeSight to provide accurate and timely information about your farm you have to assume that all your EdgeSight Worker Agents are functioning as expected.  Or do you?  In this post, we will review the information that the EdgeSight console provides you as well as creating a dashboard that can give [...]

Reporting/Monitoring, SQL

PowerShell: E-mail Server Load and Assigned LE

6 Comments Posted by on April 19, 2012

Citrix has utilized load balancing in XenApp for years. This feature allows you to set parameters in a load evaluator, apply it to a server, and have Citrix manage how users are assigned to servers. Despite the numerous tools available on the market that report on your XenApp farm utilization, Citrix user load balancing remains the easiest to implement (and cheapest). That being said, beyond running the “qfarm /load” command over and over, it’s difficult to report on your farm’s load. Thankfully, with the Citrix PowerShell commands we can regularly report on a server’s load (including the load evaluator rules) and e-mail that information.

Reporting/Monitoring, Troubleshooting , ,

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