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
A common support question that my clients have asked is, “On what days of the week do we have the greatest number of people in the system?” Or “How many users do we have on the farm?” The User Logon Counts report in EdgeSight helps you see the total number of session for each day … 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
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
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
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
