Chapter 8. Monitoring and Troubleshooting XenDesktop^®

In the earlier chapters, you learned about deploying and configuring XenDesktop environments. In this chapter, you'll learn about monitoring and troubleshooting XenDesktop, which form the ongoing XenDesktop operations that become part of the help desk or support team workflows. Although monitoring and troubleshooting have their specific scope of handling and tools, they still go hand in hand towards the common goal of resolving XenDesktop issues and stabilizing the deployment. Diligently handling the operational issues gives us an opportunity to identify the deployment loopholes, fine-tune the deployment for the real-time use cases and load, and increase the efficiency of overall end user experience.

We'll start by going through an overview of monitoring and troubleshooting XenDesktop. We'll then deep dive into each monitoring and troubleshooting procedure, detailed with suitable examples of use cases. The...