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 looking for users who were … Continue reading
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 has been talked about the “Consumerization of IT” and it is a reality for any Citrix administrator/engineer. In this blog post we will explore how to find these types of devices using EdgeSight. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
Many of EdgeSight’s tables and views have a field for the client’s IP address, and this is stored as variable-length character string (varchar or nvarchar). In order to sort or filter on this field you must use a complex regular expression or find a way to split the field into different octets. In this blog post, we will do just that by presenting a problem that requires finding users based on their subnet… Continue reading