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
If you have been coming to the site now for the last few years you have probably noticed that we kind of specialize in a “Headless” Edgesight deployment. Dave, Alain and I all tend to steer away from the Edgesight console and focus more on running ad hoc queries or specialized reports. In this entry, … 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
In my previous article: Average Session Count by Day and Hour: The Query, I dove into a query that shows the number of sessions on a farm at any given hour. Next, we go onto the creation of the report. For this I use SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS). To begin, I created … 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
