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EdgeSight for NetScaler 2.1 Prerequisites

Posted on August 18, 2011

I’m finally getting around to installing the new EdgeSight for NetScaler version 2.1. Here are the prerequisites you will need to get started. NOTE: I’m installing this on a Windows 2008 64-bit server updated with August 2011 updates From the documentation Hardware CPU: 2GHz (or better) Memory: 2GB of RAM... [Read More]
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Finding Users On Your Network, Using PC's, and Running a Certain Application

EdgeSight

Posted on August 17, 2011

Intro Recently I was asked to determine which users were using a certain application in our Citrix Farm. We are using a published desktop and while EdgeSight has reports to show published applications, few built-in reports to show what users are running in their session. In addition, I was only... [Read More]
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- EdgeSight
- MS SQL
- Reporting
- Monitoring
Copying Health Monitoring and Recovery Tests

PowerShell and Citrix XenApp Commands

Posted on August 12, 2011

Intro Your Citrix farm will have the Health Monitoring and Recovery Tests turned on for all servers by default. I have found that some tests can cause problems in the daily operation of your farm. In particular, the XML Service Test will take your XenApp servers out of production since... [Read More]
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How to Change Reporting Schedules

EdgeSight

Posted on August 5, 2011

Intro EdgeSight allows you to schedule any of its reports for automatic running and delivery to either a file share or e-mail address(es). Did you know that you can modify when these reports are run? I will show you in this post where to find the reporting schedules and how... [Read More]
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Reporting On Non-PC Devices

EdgeSight

Posted on July 13, 2011

UPDATE: Added new WHERE statement to select just iOS devices (see below). Intro Today’s workplace no longer follows a strict standard in terms of endpoint devices. Despite the efforts of your infrastructure, network, and security teams users are connecting non-approved devices to your network and your Citrix farm. A lot... [Read More]
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- Citrix
- EdgeSight
- Endpoints
- Mobility
- MS SQL
- Receiver
- Reporting
- Monitoring
- SQL
- XenApp
How to Determine the Version of the Installed EdgeSight Agent

CTX113514

Posted on July 7, 2011

While researching an EdgeSight agent install issue I came across this great CTX article. I would bookmark this page for future reference. CTX113514 - How to Determine the Version of the Installed EdgeSight Agent - Citrix Knowledge Center. How to Determine the Version of the Installed EdgeSight Agent Document ID:... [Read More]
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- Citrix
- EdgeSight
- Repost
Quickly install/update XenCenter

Posted on July 4, 2011

I finally upgraded my home lab to XenServer 5.6 SP2. At the time I failed to grab an updated version of XenCenter. If you ever need to install XenCenter and do not want to wait for an internet download, you can type the address of your XenServer into your web... [Read More]
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Reporting on Alerts

EdgeSight

Posted on June 23, 2011

EdgeSight allows to you to create alerts that trigger on many criteria. In this post, we will configure an alert and show how to query the database directly to get this information. Creating an alert For the purposes of this post, I have created a Process Hung alert for outlook.exe. ... [Read More]
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- Citrix
- EdgeSight
- MS SQL
- MS SQL Reporting Services
- Reporting
- Monitoring
- SQL

EdgeSight for NetScaler 2.1 Prerequisites

Finding Users On Your Network, Using PC's, and Running a Certain Application

EdgeSight

Copying Health Monitoring and Recovery Tests

PowerShell and Citrix XenApp Commands

How to Change Reporting Schedules

EdgeSight

Reporting On Non-PC Devices

EdgeSight

How to Determine the Version of the Installed EdgeSight Agent

CTX113514

Quickly install/update XenCenter

Reporting on Alerts

EdgeSight