With Director 7.7, you have the option of configuring policies, rules and conditions that reminds you when the reaches configured threshold your XenDesktop 7.7 environment. to proactive alerts and notifications either through the Director UI or using PowerShell cmdlets.
configure and manage in this post, we will take a look at how to configure your alerts, visualize, manage, analyze their details and to track historical trends Alarm.
configuration
Suppose that you are a XenDesktop Admin and try to use your understanding XenDesktop deployment. They need to be warned if the number of concurrent sessions exceeds a threshold.
Before you even get the configuration of alerts and notifications, you must configure your Notification subscription. With this you can add an SMTP Exchange Server, which can be used later to send emails from, if there is a warning.
For this you must navigate to the E-mail server configuration page. On the dashboard, click the Alerts tab at the top and then in the Alerts page, click the E-mail server configuration subtab to get there.
Once on the page, you must enter all the required values select
log .: , the protocol supports your e-mail server. Director supports multiple protocols with your SMTP server to connect to. These include SMTP, SMTP-SSL and SMTP TSL
-Host : The host name or IP address of the SMTP server
Port: the port with which you want to connect to the server with your SMTP
sender e-mail: the e-mail address from which you email from incase a warning should be sent. It is recommended best to create a separate e-mail address on the E-mail server and rename it as CitrixDirectorAdmin@xyz.com and use it to send
[youralertemails1945001] If the SMTP server requires authentication . In case your SMTP server does not require authentication,username and password .: authentication data can set the value to NO, and you would a username and password do not need required, SMTP Server connection to authenticate
Before you save the best advice it your settings, it is to test by sending a test email. Click the "Send Test Email" and check if a test email to the email address you obtained in Test send email wizard.
If you do not receive e-mail configuration parameters, check use again and "Edit" button to change any incorrect values
. Note: , you can not configure as an SMTP server.
If you want to remove an existing notification subscription, click on the Remove button settings.
policy configuration
Since you create a notification subscription done in the previous step, let's focus on creating a policy. The first thing you need to do is navigate create the page directive. On the dashboard, click the Alarm tab, and then click the Policy sub Create tab. If you do not see this tab, you do not have permission to create a new policy. Let's start with an example of. You want to create a policy that has a condition that, if the number of "peak Connected Sessions" goes over 10, an alert is generated and when the number of "peak Connected Sessions" on 15 a critical alert is generated. [Now
let's see how we can configure such a policy!
The main components are a policy:
Name: the name of the policy that you want
[Create Description: a brief description about the policy and its terms. Limit your description to less than 50 words
Scope: The company, in which the policy is applied to. For e.g.:- If my policy is a condition; "Notify me when tips related meetings hits 0 on all machines in my delivery group xyz", then here is the delivery group xyz the scope is. be for all machines throughout the site and the alert threshold are included in the total value of all equipment used [-
- Site:
In general alarm policy focuses on three different areas. will apply to all machines in the entire delivery group and the alarm threshold is included in the total value of all equipment used
- Server OS -
- delivery group is applied -. will apply to all machines in the delivery group, but the alarm threshold will be applied to individual machines
notification settings.? Who should be notified by e-mail when a warning for this policy there are
conditions: to create a list of conditions that you can select a policy , A policy can have multiple conditions or only one.
| state type | condition checks |
| tips Connected Sessions | detected when a momentary (one minute sample) number of peaks associated sessions for the entire site of a particular delivery group exceeds a configured number threshold. |
| tips Disconnect Sessions | Detected when a momentary (one minute sample) number of peaks separate sessions for the entire site of a particular delivery group exceeds a configured number threshold. |
| Peak Concurrent Sessions | Detected when a momentary (one minute sample) number of peak concurrent (total) exceeds sessions for the entire site of a particular delivery group a configured number threshold. |
| Connection Failure Count | Detected when the number of connections in a configurable period of time throughout the site a certain delivery group does not exceed a configured count threshold. |
| Connection Failure Rate | Detected when in a configurable period of time throughout the site a certain delivery group exceeds the ratio of connection drops to connection attempts a configured percent threshold. |
| Error desktop OS machines | Detected when a momentary (one minute sample) number of desktop OS machines in an error state for the entire site of a particular delivery group exceeds a configured number threshold. |
| Server OS machines failed | Detected when a momentary (one minute sample) Number of Server OS machines in an error state for the entire site of a particular exceeds delivery group configured count threshold. |
| average Logon duration | Detected when the average session login time in a configurable period of time over the entire site or for a particular delivery group a configured time exceeds threshold. |
| RDS Evaluator Index Load | is recognized when the configured threshold value load index is consistently maintained for 5 minutes. For example, When we configure a threshold of 68%, then an alarm will be triggered only if the threshold above or = 68% for 5 minutes without a bathroom in between. |
Because you understand the components of a policy, we want to try to create a. Go ahead and click Create policy and choose a site policy and enter the name, description, notification setting and the state of your choice. The scope by default the name of the site would be and therefore it would be pre-selected for your ease.
Note: Alert policies are site-specific! A warning policy can not be applied across multiple XenDesktop sites
Note: While adding the notification setting, the user's name can choose the the email and the email want to send address are automatically added. If you want to add an email address of a user simply enter outside your domain the entire e-mail address in the search box and click the Add button
Note: you are can not add, if you configure an email SMTP server notification setting
when it comes to the conditions Remember to follow these binding rules, without which you can save to your policy not.
- The warning threshold should always be less than that of the critical threshold
- are both the warning and critical thresholds
- not be mandatory warning and critical thresholds zero or negative can.
- Certain terms as "Peak Connected Session" not accept fractions or decimals
- The Alert Re-notification and alarm re-notification periods would be indicated by default. If you want to change it, go ahead. You can access the default values, the "Reset Value" button later with
- Alert Re-notification -. Period after which the alarm will be triggered again
- Alarm Re-notification - are permanent, after the critical message is triggered again
- Once completed all mandatory rules are a green checkmark is obtained in addition to the state and if not you get a red cross next to the conditions that are incorrect
. Note: in cases where there are several conditions in a policy that none of the conditions are met, the error until all are rescued are corrected.
Once you hit the Save button you've created your first policy.
Get Notified
Visualizing your notifications
Once you create do the set of rules and conditions for you XenDesktop environment, it is time to sit back and relax. If your environment meets rough sea, you will be immediately notified to the Director Web Console and you would receive an e-mail.
The message tip and slide
Once issues a warning, it can warn or may be critical, an administrator will be notified of the release tip. The message will tip the called on all except on the User Details page.
The message tip available gives you the number of active alarms. If you configure SCOM with proactive alerts and notifications, you will receive a sum of both active alerts on the notification bar.
When you click the message tip you click the notification Dia obtained. The message Dia gives you the opportunity, your warnings of classification based on the source's Director or SCOM and also based on the severity is Critical or Warning. If you know more about how to configure SCOM alerts on Director, see this blog.
The Communication slide bar will you as the time to give a list of all active alarms including details if it has occurred, and the rule and condition as it has triggered.
If you subscribe to the notification setting a condition that triggered an alarm, then you would receive an e-mail. The email will be localized and you are there in the language you will prefer.
administration
[1945014verwalten] Your policyOnce you guidelines Create done you have to know how to manage it now. In case you modify a policy, the policy navigate site, and for the policy name search using the search box and click the Edit button.
If your XenDesktop site is in a maintenance period and you do not want warnings, you can use the DISABLE button to disable the policy. This prevents the new warnings will be created. Once you are done with the maintenance work, you can go ahead and make these guidelines.
If there are any old policies that you want to get rid of, select the policy, and click the Delete button.
Note: Clear a policy will not erase the history of alerts that have been triggered before. You can still them on the Alert Summary page
Manage alerts
When there is a warning that the notification tip notification. You can click on the notification bit to get a scroll bar, have a quick reference of notification. You can also group them in warning and critical warning
If you know more about an alarm, simply click on it and you want the alarm details page. The Alarm Details page gives you an image of the warning, its history and its current state. You can edit the policy to create the alert on this page.
If you so active not this warning to be displayed, then you can go ahead and dismisses it. Dismissing a warning is an irreversible action. Only if the condition is healthy and then cancels the warning or critical thresholds, see receive an active alert. Until then you will not be notified
. Note: If you close a critical alert, you will not get any warning. But if you close an alert to be notified if the condition, the critical threshold exceeds
If you want to display triggered the story or the summary of warnings, then you can set the alarm to use overview page. The alarm summary page, you can filter alarms based on the length of time, the scope and the current state of the alarm. To navigate to the alarm summary page, click the Alert tab on the dashboard and then on the Citrix Alerts sub-tab
Note . If a delivery group is deleted, you will not find it listed under. This is to ensure that the history of alerts make triggered with this particular delivery group will not be lost as a frame .
In the Alert Summary page, you can set an alarm DISMISS, scroll to the details of the alarm ( Alert detail page) and also export the data.
for history of alerts search you can by using the provided filter
Source :. you get to choose the extent to which the rule was applied. For delivery group or server operating system, you get to search for the relevant application and apply to your condition to them.
Category: The category of directives for which the warnings want to see
State : you will receive between four different types of severity to choose; Critical, Warning, dismissing and healthy. This will help you group your alerts and actions of the necessary ones.
period : select to a time frame of the last 2 hours , the last 24 hours, last 7 days, and even in the past month. When you select the end date, as now , you are just the active alerts are displayed to the moment you are hit.
You can also select a custom end date and time.
let us now to the grid in the alarm summary page displays a glance.
Time: time and date when the alarm was triggered, first
action: Any action that must be performed. e.g. Dismissed
Status: The current status of the alarm. Is it healthy, critical and warning or it is rejected. If the policy is triggered the alarm is cleared, then the history of the alerts will still be available, but will be shown in the released state
Notification Policy Name .: The name of the alert policy that was given when the policy was created
Scope: Where was applied the policy on? Was it on a delivery group level it was at the level of the site or was it on a server OS level
Source :. The torn source that actually triggered the alert
Category: What was King of the policy? It reflects the template that you took during the alert rule or edit
Description: .. gives you a brief of what the exact condition that caused the alarm
That's all, folks!
Hope this helps you easily configure policies to visualize your notifications, manage, analyze their details and to track historical trends Alarm.
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