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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
