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John M. Smith

John M. Smith has written 9 posts for Edgesight Under the Hood

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ESUTH Briforum Session now online

My Briforum Session is online for anyone who wants to go check it out.  After viewing the session it appears I said “UH..” about 637 times?  Anyway it was a great experience and an honor to speak in front of so many talented individuals.  If you are curious of what I do when I go … Continue reading »

EdgeSight: BRIFORUM Content

Intro To everyone who attended my session at Briforum, thank you.  It was an honor to present and to meet so many Virtualization rock stars.  As promised, I am posting most of the content from my presentation at Briforum.  There were a few new queries that were not yet part of the site in addition … Continue reading »

OYE VEY!!! Published Desktops in Edgesight 5.3

Reporting on Published Desktops in Edgesight 5.3 We recently made the move to published XenAPP Desktops in our environment and after the initial rollout I thought I would consult edgesight and see what kind of metrics and performance numbers were in place and see how many users were using the new published desktop. What I found … Continue reading »

Three new Edgesight Queries: (Find XenDesktop Candidates and Problem users)

I will start by saying I have always been an SBC guy, even when VDI moved out of vaporware into the enterprise solution that it is today I still felt like the industry was giving up on SBC prematurely. While some of you are going to jump feet first into Citrix’s XenDesktop solution, a number … Continue reading »

Monitoring Advanced Persistent Threat, Malware and general punk busting with EdgeSight

Monitoring for Malware and zombies using Edgesight Recent security breaches known as Advanced Persistent Threat rattled Security Experts at Google after finding out that a zero-day vulnerability in IE was exploited and allowed for Malware to be downloaded to key computers. This exploit details the half-measure of Security today and in my opinion was preventable, … Continue reading »

Edgesight Under the Hood: Emails and Questions from Readers

So, I thought for my next post I would include a few of the answers I gave to some emails that I received from people who viewed “Edgesight Under the Hood”  I will start with four very easy queries that can answer some, what at times seemed to be, pretty tough questions. As I continue … Continue reading »

EdgeSight Under the Hood: Part 2

Okay, so in this blog posting I want to continue covering a few more views in Edgesight that I like to run ad hoc queries against.  Today’s view is called   vw_es_archive_application_network_performance.  This view provides information network delay, server delay, xenapp server, process name and downstream hosts that your XenApp servers communicate with.  I have used this table to … Continue reading »

Digital Epidemiology: Edgesight Under the hood

Okay, so no flat files, parsing or kiwi syslogging today.  Today I want to talk about Edgesight 5.x.  If any of you have attempted to reverse engineer Edgesight yet you have probably noticed that the tables are a lost cause.  All of the key data that you will want to try to harvest is located … Continue reading »

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