Management Consoles

Citrix offers a complete set of tools for managing servers, farms, published resources, and connections.

Citrix AppCenter Console

The Citrix AppCenter, formerly known as Citrix Delivery Services Console in XenApp 6.0 and Citrix Access Management Console in previous XenApp versions is a tool that integrates into the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and enables us to execute management tasks.

Using Citrix AppCenter console, we can set up and monitor servers, server farms, publish resources and sessions, configure policies and printers, and configure application access.

We can manage load balancing, troubleshoot alerts, diagnose problems in our XenApp farms, view hotfix information for our Citrix products, and track administrative changes.

Note

The Citrix AppCenter console is pretty similar to Citrix Delivery Services Console in XenApp 6.0, so most of the tasks in this chapter are similar, but we will find a few differences.

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