Instant EdgeSight for XenApp - Brossura

Hasan, Vaqar

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ISBN 10: 184968958X ISBN 13: 9781849689588

Casa editrice: Packt Publishing, 2013

Riassunto

Effective, practical instructions to monitor your Citrix XenApp servers using EdgeSight 5.4

Overview

• Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results
• Learn about installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of the EdgeSight server
• Contains step-by-step instructions with screenshots for practical and easy learning
• Implement EdgeSight using practical scenarios

In Detail

EdgeSight 5.4 is the most comprehensive performance management and reporting solution for the Citrix XenApp infrastructure. Administrators have real-time visibility of session-level performance and visibility of key metrics such as profile load time, login script execution, and so on. It also contains several tools to monitor the XenApp servers and can alert the administrator when the specified alert conditions are met.

This book will help you to become proficient in monitoring and generating reports for your Citrix XenApp servers. You will start by setting up the environment for EdgeSight. The book will then go on to discuss the installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of the EdgeSight server.

Instant EdgeSight for XenApp contains clear and step-by-step exercises which will help you learn how to use EdgeSight quickly and painlessly. You will install EdgeSight and its agents and learn how to configure server settings, user groups and authentication, and alerts. You will also learn how to manage the real-time dashboard and reports, monitor Citrix license usage and reports, and troubleshoot common issues.

This book starts with the basics of introducing the EdgeSight component into your infrastructure before moving on to more advanced topics such as troubleshooting. Readers will learn how to use the EdgeSight tools for day-to-day administration tasks as well as how to efficiently monitor the XenApp servers to achieve best performance for their end users.

What you will learn from this book

• Install EdgeSight and complete post-installation tasks
• Install EdgeSight agents on the XenApp servers
• Configure various server settings such as departments, worker configurations, setting up e-mail notifications, and so on
• Create EdgeSight users and managing groups and learn how to configure Active Directory authentication
• Create and manage alerts
• Manage the real-time dashboard
• Monitor Citrix license usage
• Resolve performance problems
• Troubleshoot common issues

Approach

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. Instant EdgeSight for XenApp is a practical, hands-on guide that contains instruction-based examples from basic to advanced level topics.

Who this book is written for

Instant EdgeSight for XenApp will serve as an excellent source of information for Citrix XenApp professionals and novices alike. It is assumed that readers have experience working with Citrix products and have some sort of familiarity with monitoring.

Su questo libro

L'autore

Vaqar Hasan

Vaqar Hasan is an IT Consultant living in Toronto, Canada. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. He also holds a degree in Commerce and has many certifications from vendors such as Citrix, Microsoft, VMware, CompTIA, Exin, and Apple. He is a Citrix Certified Enterprise Engineer and an Administrator (CCEE and CCEA). His main focus of interest has been Citrix and the VMware technologies.

Vaqar loves to do consulting and has been engaged with companies having one of the largest IT infrastructures in Canada, such as Bell, Service Alberta, and Bank of Nova Scotia.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Packt Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 184968958X
• ISBN 13: 9781849689588
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 68
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile