Preface

Citrix EdgeSight for XenApp provides the most comprehensive performance-management and reporting solution for the Citrix XenApp infrastructure. Administrators have real-time visibility to session-level performance and provide visibility into key metrics such as profile load time and login script execution.

Citrix EdgeSight is a complicated tool and a beast of an application in itself. With this in mind, we've made an attempt to cover the recipes that a Citrix administrator might come across while managing and supporting their XenApp farm on a daily basis.

This book follows a cookbook style and is packed with simple yet incredibly effective and practical recipes covering the basics to the advanced. All recipes contain step-by-step instructions with screenshots for practical and easy learning.

What this book covers

Installing EdgeSight Server (Intermediate) will describe the prerequisites to install EdgeSight and illustrates its installation.

Installing EdgeSight agents (Simple) will take an in-depth look at the installation of the EdgeSight agent and lists the troubleshooting steps that should be performed if the agent fails to register with the EdgeSight Server.

Configuring the server settings (Intermediate) will present the common server settings that need to be configured after the installation of the EdgeSight Server.

Configuring users, groups, and authentication (Intermediate) will focus on other settings that we should also configure after the installation of the EdgeSight Server.

Defining alerts (Advanced) will explore EdgeSight alerts and illustrate how to create alerts and define action when the defined alert condition is/are met.

Managing the real-time dashboard (Intermediate) will assist in setting up the real-time dashboard to provide a comprehensive view of the XenApp server health state in real time.

Working with EdgeSight reports (Intermediate) will walk through the steps required to work with built-in reports and how to subscribe to reports for automatic delivery.

Monitoring the Citrix license usage (Intermediate) will describe how EdgeSight can be used to report Citrix usage in your environment.

Resolving performance problems (Advanced) will focus on how to use EdgeSight to ensure applications are meeting business metrics at all times by monitoring performance from the user's perspective.

Grooming EdgeSight database (Advanced) will take an in-depth look at how to groom the EdgeSight database to optimize its performance.

What you need for this book

To try out the recipes in this book, you will need to build a Citrix XenApp farm. For the EdgeSight database, you can use the same database server that is being used as the data store for your XenApp farm. Another infrastructure server that is used in the recipes is the messaging server (Microsoft Exchange Server) to send alerts via e-mail.

Who this book is for

This is an ideal book for Citrix XenApp professionals who need to keep a close eye on the performance of their XenApp servers and generate reports.

This cookbook explores basic to advanced recipes that cover the most common tasks a professional might undertake while administering their EdgeSight Server in their day-to-day job.

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The EdgeSightXA6Agentx64.msi installer file is used to install EdgeSight agent Version 5.4, while EdgeSightXAAgentx64.msi is used to install EdgeSight agent Version 5.3."

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

Msiexec /i EdgeSightXA6Agentx64.msi /l logfile.log /q SERVER_NAME=ServerName COMPANY=CompanyName DEPARTMENT=DeptName REBOOT=ReallySuppress

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Verify that the default departments were created successfully by navigating to Configure | Company Configuration | Device Management | Departments."

Note

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