Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View

Table 8‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Options for Creating a Farm (Continued)
Option Description Fill in Your Value Here
When timeout occurs Determines whether an empty
application session is disconnected or
logged off after the Empty session
timeout limit is reached. Select
Disconnect or Log off. A session that
is logged off frees up resources, but
opening an application takes longer.
The default is Disconnect.
Log off disconnected session Determines when a disconnected
session is logged off. This setting
applies to both desktop and
application sessions. Select Never,
Immediate, or After ... minutes. Use
caution when you select Immediate
or After ... minutes. When a
disconnected session is logged off,
the session is lost. The default is
Never.
Allow HTML Access to desktops and
applications on this farm
Determines whether HTML Access to
RDS desktops and applications is
allowed. Check the Enabled box to
allow HTML Access to RDS desktops
and applications. When you edit this
setting after a farm is created, the
new value applies to existing
desktops and applications as well as
new ones.
Create a Farm
You create a farm as part of the process to give users access to applications or RDS desktops.
Prerequisites
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Set up the RDS hosts that belong to the farm. See Chapter 7, “Setting Up Remote Desktop Services
Hosts,” on page 87.
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Verify that all the RDS hosts have the Available status. In View Administrator, select View
Configuration > Registered Machines and check the status of each RDS host on the RDS Hosts tab.
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Gather the configuration information you must provide to create the farm. See “Worksheet for Creating
a Farm,” on page 98.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, click Resources > Farms.
2 Click Add to enter the configuration information that you gathered in the worksheet.
3 Specify settings for the farm and click Next.
4 Select the RDS hosts to add to the farm and click Next.
5 Click Finish.
In View Administrator, you can now view the farm by clicking Resources > Farms.
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