MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Citrix® MetaFrame® Presentation Server 3.
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Contents Chapter 1 Introduction MetaFrame Presentation Server Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Introducing Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 MetaFrame Presentation Server Editions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Introducing MetaFrame Presentation Server Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 MetaFrame Presentation Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Licensing Evaluation Versions of Citrix Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Installing MetaFrame Access Suite License Server and the License Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Obtaining and Installing an Evaluation License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Installing MetaFrame Presentation Server and Creating a Server Farm. . . . . . . . .
Contents 5 Using the License Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Opening the License Management Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Determining License Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Perusing Historical Usage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Controlling License Management Console Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CHAPTER 1 Introduction This guide is for anyone reviewing or evaluating Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows, Version 3.0. Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server is the easiest way to manage enterprise applications from a central location and access them from anywhere.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide MetaFrame Presentation Server Benefits MetaFrame Presentation Server solutions enable you to provide your users with uninterrupted, secure access to your organization’s applications and information, from almost any device over any network connection−Internet, LAN, WAN, dialup, or wireless.
Chapter 1 Introduction 9 Introducing Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite MetaFrame Access Suite powers the on-demand enterprise by giving workers, anywhere, at any time, using any device, over any connection, the ability to easily and securely access whatever resources they need without regard to the underlying computing complexity.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Products in the MetaFrame Access Suite are fully integrated, making it easy to add and extend the value of your MetaFrame implementation. For the latest product information about MetaFrame Access Suite, see ww.citrix.com/accesssuite. Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows.
Chapter 1 Introduction 11 MetaFrame Presentation Server Editions To accommodate a wide spectrum of customer requirements for functionality and scale, MetaFrame Presentation Server is offered as three editions: • MetaFrame Presentation Server, Standard Edition. Delivers the level of control that departments, workgroups, and small organizations need to extend the reach of Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 to any device.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Introducing MetaFrame Presentation Server Components MetaFrame Presentation Server includes the following components and component sets: • MetaFrame Presentation Server • Management Consoles Presentation Server Console Access Suite Console License Management Console Program Neighborhood Agent Console Web Interface Console • Administration Tools ICA Administration Toolbar Citrix Connection Configuration Tool ICA Client Distribution Wizard ICA Client Pr
Chapter 1 Introduction • 13 Enterprise Edition Management Applications Load Manager Resource Manager Installation Manager Network Manager The sections that follow describe each of these components and component sets. MetaFrame Presentation Server MetaFrame Presentation Server allows multiple users to log on and run applications in separate, protected sessions on a single or on multiple servers.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide You can use the Presentation Server Console to manage a server farm from any location. By default, the Presentation Server Console is installed with MetaFrame Presentation Server. License Management Console The License Management Console is a Web-based application that lets you track and manage licenses.
Chapter 1 Introduction 15 Management functionality is provided through a number of snap-in management tools (extensions) that you can select when you install the Access Suite Console or at any time later.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide • Specify a default update database • Configure the properties of the database • Configure client update options • Add new Clients to the database • Remove outdated or unnecessary Clients • Change the properties of a Client in the database Shadow Taskbar You can use the Shadow Taskbar to shadow sessions and to switch among multiple shadowed sessions.
Chapter 1 Introduction 17 Citrix SSL Relay Configuration Tool Use the SSL Relay Configuration Tool to configure Citrix SSL Relay, which secures communication between a server running the Web Interface and your farm. Citrix SSL Relay provides end-to-end Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) encryption between specific servers and clients.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide You publish any given application or content once on the server, but multiple users can simultaneously access the published resources. Application processing on the client is kept to a minimum because the application runs entirely on the server. The ICA protocol sends keystrokes, mouse clicks, and screen updates between the server and the client, so to the user of the client device it appears as if the software is running locally.
Chapter 1 Introduction 19 • Application and content enumeration. The client presents users with their individual set of published resources. • Application launching. The client is the local engine used to launch published applications. • Desktop integration. The client integrates a user’s set of published resources with the user’s desktop. • User preferences. The client validates and implements local user preferences.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide The Web Interface dynamically creates an HTML page with a depiction of the server farm for each of your users. After logging on, each user sees a Web page that includes all the applications and resources in the server farm that you configure for that user. Using the Web Interface, you can create stand-alone Web sites for application access or Web sites that can be integrated into your corporate portal.
Chapter 1 Introduction 21 Load Manager Taking server farm load balancing to a new level, this component lets administrators customize rules to optimize server resources in any environment. Application scheduling permits administrators to schedule application availability to accommodate routine application and database maintenance. (Only available in MetaFrame Presentation Server Advanced and Enterprise Editions.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide New Features of MetaFrame Presentation Server The following new features and enhancements are included in this release.
Chapter 1 Introduction 23 Policies You can now create policies to apply connection settings based on server groups, IP addresses, and client names—in addition to users or user groups as in earlier releases. New policy rules give you broader control over bandwidth limits, zone connection preferences, audio options, and printing.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Enhanced Multimedia Support MetaFrame Presentation Server offers the following major multimedia enhancements. SpeedScreen Multimedia Acceleration SpeedScreen Multimedia Acceleration optimizes streaming multimedia playback through published instances of or remote desktop connections to Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and RealOne Player. This feature offers significant performance gains in the following areas: • User Experience.
Chapter 1 Introduction 25 Session Reliability Session Reliability keeps ICA sessions active and on the user’s screen when network connectivity is interrupted. Users continue to see the application they are using until network connectivity resumes without prompting for users’ credentials again. This feature is especially useful for mobile users with wireless connections.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Other Key Features of MetaFrame Presentation Server The following is a list of features that can only be found within MetaFrame Presentation Server: Active Directory support. MetaFrame Presentation Server supports Microsoft Active Directory, allowing administrators to publish applications to Active Directory users and groups. Users can log onto MetaFrame Presentation Server using their full Active Directory-based username and password. Printer management.
Chapter 1 Introduction 27 Auto client reconnect. With the auto client reconnect feature, the Win32 and Java clients automatically reconnect to a session when they detect a dropped connection (when network issues occur outside of MetaFrame Presentation Server). Users can continue to work without reconnecting manually, reentering credentials, and restarting applications. Content publishing. This feature lets you publish document files, media files, URLs, and any other type of file from any network location.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide ICA session monitoring. Performance counters let you use Windows Performance Monitor to observe ICA communication, including bandwidth and compression for sessions, servers, and individual virtual channels, and latency in ICA sessions. Performance monitoring can provide valuable information about utilization of network bandwidth and help determine if a bottleneck exists. (Available in Enterprise edition.) Delegated administration.
Chapter 1 Introduction 29 Getting More Information and Help This section describes how to get more information about MetaFrame Presentation Server and how to contact Citrix. Accessing the Document Center The Document Center provides a single point of access to the documentation and enables you to go straight to the section in the documentation that you need. It also includes: • A list of common tasks and a link to each item of documentation. • A search function that covers all the PDF guides.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Other Product Documentation The documentation for MetaFrame Presentation Server includes online documentation, known issues information, integrated on-screen assistance, and application help. • Online documentation is provided as Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Online guides are provided that correspond to different features of MetaFrame Presentation Server.
Chapter 1 Introduction 31 Subscription Advantage Subscription Advantage gives you an easy way to stay current with the latest server-based software functionality and information. Not only do you get automatic delivery of feature releases, software upgrades, enhancements, and maintenance releases that become available during the term of your subscription, you also get priority access to important Citrix technology information. You can find more information on the Citrix Web site at http://www.citrix.
CHAPTER 2 Installing and Licensing MetaFrame Presentation Server Components This chapter describes how to install and setup MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows and its clients.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Requirements for Performing this Review To perform this review, Citrix suggests that you have access to at least two clean, server-class computers that are not currently in use and a computer that can serve as a client device. All three computers communicate over a network and belong to a single domain or workgroup that is not currently used by a MetaFrame Presentation Server.
Chapter 2 Installing and Licensing MetaFrame Presentation Server Components 35 Important Because the presence of MetaFrame Presentation Servers affect each other, we recommend that you isolate to their own subnet the MetaFrame Presentation Servers used in this review. Servers Running MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows The following are required by MetaFrame Presentation Server: • Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Version 5.0 or later and ASP.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide MetaFrame Presentation Server Installation Overview This section identifies MetaFrame Presentation Server components you are installing on each of your computers: your primary server, secondary server, and client computer.
Chapter 2 Installing and Licensing MetaFrame Presentation Server Components 37 Licensing Evaluation Versions of Citrix Products Because licensing is a crucial part of your product installation, Citrix recommends that you read this entire section before installing Citrix licensing or any Citrix products. To license your MetaFrame Presentation Server product evaluation 1. Install MetaFrame Access Suite License Server and the License Management Console. 2.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide 6. On the License Agreement dialog box, choose I accept the license agreement, then click Next. 7. On the following dialog boxes, accept the defaults by clicking Next: • Destination Folder • Select Features • License Files Location 8. On the Restart IIS Web Server Service dialog box, choose OK to restart IIS, then click Next. 9.
Chapter 2 Installing and Licensing MetaFrame Presentation Server Components 39 To use MyCitrix to allocate licenses and download a license file 1. Using a Web browser and your MyCitrix user ID and password, log on to www.MyCitrix.com. 2. On the My Citrix page, open Licensing > Citrix Activation System > Activate Licenses. 3. On the Reseller Warning page, click I Agree. 4. On the License Activation page, type in your license code, then click Continue. 5.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide To upload the license file to the license server: 1. Open Start > All Programs > Citrix > Management Consoles >License Management Console. 2. On the License Manager Console page, click Configure License Server. 3. On the Configuration tab, click Copy license file to this License Server. 4. On the Upload License File page, click Browse, choose the license file you downloaded, then click Open. 5. On the Upload License File page, click Upload. 6.
Chapter 2 Installing and Licensing MetaFrame Presentation Server Components 41 Installing MetaFrame Presentation Server and Creating a Server Farm This section describes how to install MetaFrame Presentation Server on your primary server, which is how you begin building a server farm. In this demonstration, you install MetaFrame Presentation Server on the server on which you installed your License Server, and begin to build a server farm called DemoFarm.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide To begin installing MetaFrame Presentation Server on your primary server 1. Open the Server CD for MetaFrame Presentation Server. If you do not see Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server Setup, use Windows Explorer to open Autorun.exe on the Server CD. 2. Click Product installations, then click Install MetaFrame Presentation Server and its components. 3. On License Agreement dialog box, select I accept the license agreement, then click Next. 4.
Chapter 2 Installing and Licensing MetaFrame Presentation Server Components 43 To create your server farm 1. On the MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows Setup dialog box, click Next. On the License Agreement dialog box, select I accept the license agreement and click Next. On the Product Edition Selection dialog box, verify selection of Enterprise Edition, then click Next. 2. From the Program Neighborhood drop-down, choose Entire feature will be unavailable.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide To install the MetaFrame Access Suite Console 1. Bring the MetaFrame Access Suite Console Setup dialog box to the front and click Next. 2. On License Agreement dialog box, select I accept the license agreement, then click Next. 3. On the Destination Folder, Select Extension, and Ready to Install Application dialog boxes, click Next. 4. In MetaFrame Access Suite Console Setup, click Finish.
Chapter 2 Installing and Licensing MetaFrame Presentation Server Components 45 Adding a MetaFrame Presentation Server to your Server Farm This section provides instruction on how to install MetaFrame Presentation Server on a second computer and add it to an existing farm called DemoFarm. Your secondary server must be a computer other than one acting as your primary server and meet the prerequisites as described in the section “Requirements for Performing this Review” on page 34.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide To add a server to your server farm 1. On the MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows Setup dialog box, click Next. On the License Agreement dialog box, select I accept the license agreement and click Next. On the Product Edition Selection dialog box, verify selection of Enterprise Edition, then click Next. 2.
Chapter 2 Installing and Licensing MetaFrame Presentation Server Components 47 6. Accept defaults on the following dialog boxes: • On Identify Citrix License Server dialog box, verify selection of Use the global farm settings for the license server, then click Next. • On the Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows warning, confirm the use of farm settings, by clicking Yes.
Installing MetaFrame Clients This section describes how to install Program Neighborhood Agent on your client computer. Before starting this installation, using a domain user name that is a member of the local Administrators group, log on to the client computer on which you are installing Program Neighborhood Agent. To install Program Neighborhood Agent 1. Open the Citrix MetaFrame Components CD. If you do not see Citrix MetaFrame Components setup, use Windows Explorer to open Autorun.
Chapter 2 Installing and Licensing MetaFrame Presentation Server Components The next chapter describes how to: • Use the MetaFrame Presentation Server Management Console to publish applications • Use the Web Interface and Program Neighborhood Agent to access published applications • Use the Management Console to manage your servers 49
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CHAPTER 3 Using MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows This section describes how to demonstrate the features and capabilities of MetaFrame Presentation Server.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Using the Presentation Server Console The Presentation Server Console is a comprehensive, graphical interface that centralizes the management of your entire server farm, including servers, applications, licenses, printers, and users. The console is a Java-based, extensible program. To run the Presentation Server Console 1.
Chapter 3 Using MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows 53 This screen capture shows the Presentation Server Console for DemoFarm. The console window is split into two panes: 1. The left pane shows the components of a server farm. The object at the top of the tree represents the server farm. The next level of objects under the server farm represents management features and components in the server farm, called nodes. 2.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Making Published Applications and Content Available to Users This section describes how to perform the following tasks: 1. Publish Notepad from the primary server of DemoFarm. 2. Publish Calculator from the secondary server of DemoFarm. 3. Publish a link to My Citrix. 4. Make DemoFarm available to users in your domain.
Chapter 3 Using MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows 55 9. In Specify Users: • Double-click the domain in which your server resides. Note Please do not choose your computer name. Choose the domain of the user name you used to log in. • Choose Domain Users and click Add. • Click Next. 10. In Specify File Type Associations, click Finish. You have now published Notepad from the primary server of DemoFarm. Domain users who connect to DemoFarm can run Notepad from your primary server.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide You have now published Calculator from the secondary server of DemoFarm. Domain users who connect to DemoFarm can transparently run Calculator on your secondary server. Publishing Web Content You can give users access to information, such as documents, Web sites, and video presentations, by publishing content for users in the same way that you publish applications.
Chapter 3 Using MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows 57 Configuring the Web Interface To manage the Web Interface, using the correct credentials and a device that supports a Web browser, access the Web Interface Console. To access the Web Interface Console 1. On your client computer, open a Web browser and in the Address field, type the following: http:///Citrix/MetaFrame/WIAdmin where is the name of the server running the Web Interface. 2.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Exploring the User Experience This demonstration shows how to access applications and content published in the previous sections.
Chapter 3 Using MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows 59 Running Published Applications from a Client Desktop After rebooting your client computer, you can access published applications from the desktop. After logging into your client computer note that you have three icons on your desktop: Calculator2, which runs calculator on the secondary server of DemoFarm, Notepad1, which runs Notepad on the primary server of DemoFarm, and My Citrix, which opens www.mycitrix.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide For the clients for 32-bit Windows, any printer that is set up in Windows on the client device is a client printer. Locally connected printers, printers that are connected on a network, and virtual printers are all client printers. To test printing from a client 1. Return to your client computer where Notepad is running. 2. In Notepad, choose File > Print. Your text is printed on the printer connected to the client computer.
Chapter 3 Using MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows 61 Managing Printers for Clients The Presentation Server Console provides access to all printer management features. Below are some key points for managing printers in a farm: • You can make printers that are already installed on client computers available in ICA sessions. To do so, install printer drivers on a server and use the replication feature in the management console to distribute the drivers to all servers in the farm.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Configuring Auto Creation of Client Printers You configure auto creation settings differently for client printers that are not on DOS and WinCE platforms using the management console for MetaFrame Presentation Server. Select Printers in the left pane of Printer Management Properties and choose the Auto-Create Client Printers when user logs on option to allow client printers to be automatically created when users log on to ICA sessions.
Chapter 3 Using MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows 63 All client printers. Select this option to auto create all of the client printers on a user’s client device. Use connection settings for each server. Select this option to accept the settings specified for the ICA connection in the Citrix Connection Configuration utility. This option is selected by default. The term connection refers to the virtual ports that are associated with network protocols on servers running MetaFrame Presentation Server.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Using the Universal Printing Capabilities As described previously in this chapter, MetaFrame Presentation Server automatically creates client printers when users log on to MetaFrame Presentation Server. With auto creation of client printers, users print to their regular printers from applications that are running on MetaFrame Presentation Servers without having to set up their printers each time they log on.
Chapter 3 Using MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows 65 By default, the auto creation process uses the native printer driver for a specific printer on the client device to create the client printer. If the correct native printer driver is not available on the application server, the client printer is automatically created using a compatible universal driver. You can use the Presentation Server Console to change the default settings.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Using Policies To apply selected MetaFrame Presentation Server settings to specific Windows domain users or user groups, you create and apply user-based policies.
Chapter 3 Using MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows 67 9. In Assign Shadowing Permissions, double-click your domain, choose Domain Users, click Add, then click OK. 10. In Shadow Properties, click OK. After you have created the Shadow policy and configured its rules, assign the policy to connections that you want to be able to shadow. Assigning a Policy To assign the shadowing policy to connections 1. In the right pane, right-click Shadow and select Apply this policy to. 2.
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CHAPTER 4 Using MetaFrame Access Suite Components This chapter introduces the MetaFrame Access Suite Console and describes: • Configuring Access Suite Console for the First Time • Accessing Farm Information • Accessing Access Suite License Server • Using the License Management Console
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide This screen capture shows the Access Suite Console before running discovery and with the MetaFrame Access Suite node expanded. Configuring Access Suite Console for the First Time In order to connect Access Suite Console to installed MetaFrame Access Suite products, run the discovery process. To run discovery 1. On your primary server, open the MetaFrame Access Suite Console by choosing Start > All Programs > Citrix > Access Suite Console. 2.
Chapter 4 Using MetaFrame Access Suite Components 73 Accessing Farm Information You can use the Access Suite Management Console to access information concerning DemoFarm. To access information about DemoFarm 1. In the left pane of MetaFrame Access Suite Console, expand DemoFarm and note folders for Applications, Servers, and Zones. 2. Expand the Applications node and note the applications you published: Calculator2, My Citrix, Notepad1, and Shadow.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Launching License Management Console After adding a shortcut to the License Management Console, you can open it and manage licenses. To launch the License Management Console 1. In Shortcuts to license servers, select the license server in the list. 2. Click Launch License Management Console on server. 3. Enter your credentials, then click OK. 4. Close the License Management Console.
Chapter 4 Using MetaFrame Access Suite Components 75 You can manage only the license server on which the License Management Console is running. The four functions you can manage with the console are • Displaying your license inventory • Running reports that detail past license use • Configuring the license server and the License Management Console • Assigning permissions to the License Management Console by user or user role All of these tasks are explained in the sections that follow.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Determining License Availability The Current Usage page lets you see the number of licenses you have installed, the number of licenses that are in use, and the number of licenses that are available for use and their availability as a percentage of the total number of licenses. The Current Usage page displays system, license expiration, license usage, and Subscription Advantage alerts.
Chapter 4 Using MetaFrame Access Suite Components 77 Controlling License Management Console Access For administrators to have access to the License Management Console, you must create user accounts for them. When you install the console, a user account with full permissions is created for you automatically based on the credentials you used to log on to the license server during installation.
CHAPTER 5 Using Load Manager With Load Manager, an administrator can set up, monitor, and adjust server and published application loads in a server farm so that users can run the applications they need quickly and efficiently. When a user connects to a published application that is load balanced with Load Manager, Load Manager identifies the server with the lightest load for that application. The user is not aware of load balancing; load calculations are not communicated to the user in any way.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Introducing Load Manager Rules Administrator-defined rules provide the framework to determine server load. For example, you can set the rule called server user load to be considered full at 100 users. When this limit is reached, the server is not available for additional connections.
Chapter 5 Using Load Manager 81 To create a load evaluator 1. In the in the left-hand pane of the Presentation Server console, select Load Evaluators. 2. In the right pane, right-click Advanced and choose Duplicate Load Evaluator. 3. In Duplicate Load Evaluator, for Name type Demo Evaluator. 4. In Available Rules, choose Application User Load, and click Add. 5. For report load, replace 100 with 1. 6. For Application, choose Notepad1. 7. In Assigned Rules, choose CPU Utilization. 8.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Viewing Load Evaluator Assignments Load Manager gives you three ways to view your load-balancing framework. To view information about the load evaluators in use 1. In the management console, select the Load Evaluators node in the left-hand pane. 2. Click the Usage Reports tab in the right-hand pane. You can view these reports by server, by application, and by evaluator. The following example displays the usage reports by evaluator.
CHAPTER 6 Using Resource Manager Resource Manager enables administrators to efficiently manage and monitor MetaFrame Presentation Server farm resources to ensure optimum application availability and performance for users.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide Report Center The Report Center is one of the system management tools provided through the Access Suite Console. The Access Suite Console snaps into the Microsoft Management Console to provide a central location for system management tools. You can also use it to launch other consoles such as the MetaFrame Presentation Server Console.
Chapter 6 Using Resource Manager 85 Real-Time Monitoring Capabilities The Dashboard on the Access Suite Console allows you to display performance metrics for the servers in a farm in a highly visual way. You can create custom views of farms, zones, servers, and applications by using the My Views feature. My Views allows you to create and save customized views of items in your deployment. You can then see updated information about those items at any time, without having to search for them.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide • Determine which custom administrators can generate current reports, summary reports, or Billing reports • Ensure that administrators receive alerts only for those servers for which they have responsibility Identifying Status Icons For each server in your system, colored status icons (visual alarms) show the status of each monitored condition or metric.
Chapter 6 Using Resource Manager 87 Monitoring Servers There are a number of ways in which Resource Manager enables you to monitor the status of servers in your server farm. You can monitor the status of individual servers, of all selected servers, or display a window that enables you to watch for alarms when the status displays are not visible. To view the status display for a server 1.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide • Object. The category that you want to monitor. It is a physical or logical system resource; for example, a computer's hard disk. • Counter. The counter to be monitored. This is the specific aspect of the object that you want to monitor; for example, disk free space. • Instance. The instance of the object. An individual example of the object or a state it needs to reach in order to be counted. For example, a computer may have more than one hard disk.
Chapter 6 Using Resource Manager 89 Using the Summary Database Resource Manager can now store process, event, and any Resource Manager metric information you select in an external Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle Database DBMS. You can use a summary database to retrieve historical records or generate reports. You can also generate reports from a summary database using an external package such as Crystal Reports. Before you start using a summary database 1.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide You can use the information from Resource Manager reports to inform others about the MetaFrame Presentation Server environment and to establish future resource requirements. You can identify why problems occur, and reduce the likelihood of these occurrences in the future. You can also examine server, user, and process activity trends, and statistics to help you better maintain your server farm.
Chapter 6 Using Resource Manager 91 Reporting on the Use of Applications You can produce a report that displays information about the processes that are being monitored in the server farm, and in particular, processes that are running on a specific server. To produce a recent process report 1. On the Reports tab, click Current Process. 2. Choose the process and user on which to report and use Report Options to specify the information that you want to include in the report. 3. Click Generate.
APPENDIX Frequently Asked Questions The online Knowledge Base contains an extensive collection of application notes, technical articles, troubleshooting tips, and white papers. The Knowledge Base is available in the Support area of the Citrix Web site: http://www.citrix.com.
MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer’s Guide What Microsoft Windows server platforms support MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows, version 3.0? MetaFrame Presentation Server is optimized for Microsoft’s advanced Windows platform and operates on the following platforms: • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server • Windows 2000 Advanced Server • Windows 2000 Datacenter Server • Windows Server 2003 MetaFrame Presentation Server is not supported on Windows NT 4.0, Terminal Services edition.
Appendix B FAQs 95 If I am using MetaFrame XP, will I have to reinstall the entire product in order to get the functionality in MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0? No. Only the components needed to update your MetaFrame Presentation Server to 3.0 will be installed. There is no need to reinstall MetaFrame Presentation Server or any applications on the server. All prior settings will remain unchanged as a result of installing MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0. Does MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.
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