18-Mar-2010
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
With this new version, Citrix give support to XenApp 6 and Microsoft Windows 2008 R2. Beware, the new Edgesight XenApp Client 5.3 is only made for Windows 2008 R2 and XenApp 6. For prior OS and XenApp version you must use the 5.2.1 version. There are a bunch of new reports available now, since Resource Manager is dead, Citrix needs to implement everything what we were use to find in RM. This is a small step but nothing big except for the licensing part, a brand new section is dedicated for licenses reporting.
What’s new ?
- Monitoring of Citrix License Servers and reporting on license usage by product group or individual products. The license servers to be monitored are specified at Configure > License Monitor Configuration > License Servers. License usage reports are available on the Track Usage tab.
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03-Mar-2010
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Category : Apple, Citrix, Mac OSx Snow Leopard, Secure Gateway VPX, XenApp 5, XenApp 6, XenApp Plugin, XenServer 5.5
Tags: Apple, CAG, Citrix, Citrix Access Gateway, Error 61, Mac, Mac OSx, SSL, SSL Error 61, XenApp
In this post I explain how I tried to troubleshoot this issue, if you need the solution, go at the end of this post.
My company (Activlan) had to renew our certificate installed on our Citrix Secure Gateway 3.1.3. As you might know, Citrix has issued some virtual appliance and I had to chose between, Citrix Access Gateway 4.6.2 VPX and Netscaller VPX Express (Free !). My choice was to integrate a Citrix Access Gateway (CAG) mainly because we are using other product to manage VPN to all our customers and I wanted to install what I needed, nothing less, nothing more.
So here we go, I got my xva file from MyCitrix account and I just deploy it on our XenServer, very easy, very simple, just some clicks. Once installed and basics configuration set, I had to generate the CSR (Certificate Signing Request) and wait for Verisign to send me the certificate I had to use with the CAG. This was a big adventure and of course I should have read the manual before, and configuration isn’t so easy but I guess when you do it all day long you begin to know everything and I can say now, I know how to troubleshoot a CAG from the client side to the Web Interface.
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21-Feb-2010
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Category : ArchY.net Site, Citrix, Presentation Server 4, Presentation Server 4.5, Windows 2008 R2, XenApp 5, XenApp 6
Tags: Citrix, Microsoft, Tuning Tips, Windows 2008 R2, XenApp
There are many post around to tune Citrix XenApp in many ways and there are even more to tune Microsoft Windows 2008 R2.
I want to begin a new document as we had with Citrix Metaframe 1.8 tuning tips on Microsoft Windows NT4 TSE. This was a great document and very helpfull in many way.
If you have any ideas, agree on what I will write or disagree, I take everything to form a big document available online for everyone.
First I would like to know if we should create a wiki-like to let everyone working on the document and add/change at will, what do you think ?
Which is the best way to realize Citrix XenApp tuning tips
- A wiki where everyone can add/change (69%, 9 Votes)
- A thread on the forum (31%, 4 Votes)
- By email (0%, 0 Votes)
- Another (0%, 0 Votes)
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19-Feb-2010
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Unattended installation is very usefull in large XenApp farm, of course if you’re deploying one server per two month you might not be interessed by this process automation but this is always interresting to know this kind of tips. Scripts bellow are example I use every day in production to install servers, of course its needs to be change and adapt to your own settings and of course if you have some ideas to share, I take it !
This unattended example assume you have only one network card enable, a local XenApp source installation file and IP address type 192.168.3 / 192.168.10 / 192.168.200 / 10.113 / 10.112. This file allow to join an existing farm named CTX_TEST with a datastore hosted on a SQL server. Finally, you need to create one folder per farm inside your XenApp source folder if you are automating multi farm setup.
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23-Nov-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Category : Citrix, Microsoft, Presentation Server 4, Presentation Server 4.5, Provisioning Server 5, Receiver, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Windows XP, XenApp 5, XenApp Plugin
Tags: ICA Client, ICA version, Online Plug-in, Using Edgesight, XenApp Plugin
This information can be very useful, because as you might know, there are build numbers and version numbers, and it become a mess very fast when you try to list all ICA client version connecting your Citrix Presentation / XenApp servers.
4.00.581
4.00.686
4.20.715
4.20.727
4.20.741
4.21.779
6.00.910
6.01.963
6.01.964
6.01.967
6.20.985
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16-Oct-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
I have a new issue… I am updating all Edgesight XenApp agents to 5.2 and I have problem on only some servers. These servers have remapped drivers ( m: & n: ) and run Windows 2003 R2 Sp2. The installation is successful without any error but after a reboot the service doesn’t want to start with the message : “The Citrix System Monitoring Agent service on Local Computer started and the stopped…”
In Event Logs
Type: Error
Event Source: Citrix System Monitoring Agent
Event Category: None
Event ID: 34
Date: 16/10/2009
Time: 09:49:32
User: AUTORITE NT\SYSTEM
Computer: EMCXPA000
Description:
The Citrix System Monitoring Agent was unable to startup. Please consult the Sys_event_txt.txt agent log in your data directory for details.
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01-Oct-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Reference problem post : http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1409280
Here is my environment : Windows 2008 SP2 with MUI pack installed and Citrix XenApp 5 with latest hotfixes and Citrix Edgesight XenApp Agent 5.1 . I get this error when I open a console on the XenApp servers and it seems to popup in some user’s session…
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16-Jun-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Category : Citrix, Dazzle, Receiver, Windows 7, Windows XP, XenApp 5
Tags: Citrix Dazzle, Citrix Itune, Citrix Receiver, Dazzle, Dazzled, Installation, setup
Here it is ! Use your MyCitrix account to download this self service application store front (http://tinyurl.com/mbeuod) This is only 3Mb msi and I think this is not the same version we saw at Synergy 2009 but here it is.
Some setup screenshots :
01-Jun-2009
Posted by : Stephane THIRION
Category : Citrix, Green Computing, Presentation Server 4, Presentation Server 4.5, XenApp 5
Tags: Capacity, Citrix, Green Computing, Management, Power, Power and Capacity Management, video, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, XAPCM, XenApp
Here we go, Green Computing is coming ! Now Citrix give us the ability to switch off XenApp servers and switch it on only when the load on the power on server reach a limit. This is very very smart and I think this Power and Capacity Management for XenApp will be a success.
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You can watch bellow the video filmed during the Synergy 2009 in Las Vegas :
