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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 , ,

EdgeSight: What’s the Point?

2 Comments Posted by on April 18, 2012

Intro In my experience, EdgeSight is not typically deployed in XenApp environments. The reasons for this are many including, it seems redundant and overlaps with an already installed solution, it’s hard to use (sorry Citrix, this is a great tool, but it almost requires a dedicated resource to manage it), most XenApp administrators/managers do not [...]

Reporting/Monitoring, Troubleshooting , , , ,

Article: Enabling or Disabling HDX Plug-n-Play for USB Storage Devices

2 Comments Posted by on December 13, 2011

Intro Sometimes your security team will be your best friend. They will be the “bad guy” in your IT organization and prevent certain applications from being installed or they will require that remote users have reduced access. Recently, I was approached by my security team to prevent access to the clipboard, local printers, and local [...]

Administration, Documentation, Remote Access ,

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