Intro If you have implemented any of the ad hoc SQL queries available on this site, you may have noticed that most time queries are offset by –4 or –5 hours. This is due to the fact that the EdgeSight database uses GMT to record time and John and I are located in the U.S. … Continue reading
If you rely on EdgeSight to provide accurate and timely information about your farm you have to assume that all your EdgeSight Worker Agents are functioning as expected. Or do you? In this post, we will review the information that the EdgeSight console provides you as well as creating a dashboard that can give you detailed information on your EdgeSight Worker agents. Continue reading
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
