Monitor XenDesktop and XenApp user on the globe with geo-card

Monitor XenDesktop and XenApp user on the globe with geo-card -

The network-related monitoring and reporting within Citrix NetScaler Director of the company HDX Insight, which is a powerful tool for End-end monitoring tool for Citrix HDX deployments, and that gives thorough insight into HDX traffic to packet-level information.

It enables administrators to proactively monitor the XA / XD installations and helps them pin show the exact problem that an end user is facing. It helps clear the administrator to answer: If is a user can access the applications? What applications a user accesses? Who are the logged-on user?

Following this, the latest version of NetScaler 11.0 It is now possible for the administrators to answer the question of Where a user access on an application? This function is called HDX Insight Geo Card . This function is available in NetScaler Insight Center® 11.0 product and accessible by the Trends> Network tab in the Citrix Director surveillance console.

Below are examples of applications that can respond to this function the administrator:

• Top 5 Cities accessed from where the Outlook application
• Top 5 countries from which the most number of users, the applications of the evening 19.00 and in the night access to 23:00
• ICA RTT from Share File application when accessed from Boston office, compared to when they accessed from Seattle office
• cities from which Steve has accessed the applications in the last 1 month

with this type of data and reporting available to an administrator of Director console, it is really easy as well a problem and make it better in terms of capacity planning to fix. The best part is, not only thoroughness of data, but also the ease with which they can be configured. Following are the public Geo IP and Private IP Geo steps, look to configure

Public Geo IP lookup .:

for showing the user to access the applications of public IP addresses, a geo-IP database according to the supplier recommendation help documentation must be uploaded in to NetScaler Insight Center. See Fig. 1, for more information about this

private Geo IP lookup.

For the user shows that access the applications of private IP addresses (such as the company intranet) private IP blocks need to be created in NetScaler Insight Center. See Figure 2 and Figure 3, for more information about this

Fig. 1:. Look Uploading MaxMind Geo DB for public IP in NetScaler Insight Center

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image 2: List of created private IP blocks in NetScaler Insight Center

picture 3: creation of a private IP block in NetScaler Insight Center

HDX Insight Geo Map coverage

see for these reports, log in Director console and then click the tab trends and continue in the network tab. Here you will be able to regularly HDX Insight Reporting to see that was formerly available with HDX Insight Geo cards that have been newly introduced. See Fig. 4 for the details of

The regions in the Geo Map are color based on the amount of metrics in this region, for example :. If ICA RTT in China than in India would more then China is filled to a darker shade of green. This helps quick visual conclusions. ICA RTT, bandwidth, WAN latency and DC Latency: The Geo-maps can be drawn as to different metrics. The following table may point downwards all regions with sorting and pagination available.

A region (country or state) of. Within the Geo-map or the links in the table below for seeing the details of the reporting can be clicked in the selected region See Fig. 5 for the same.

The mentioned applications earlier in this blog, can use the simple and visually appealing presentation and straight drill-down mechanisms, all the way easy and intuitive catered to trouble around the shooting.

image 4. Geo Map coverage Director Monitoring Console

Fig. Drill in China Guangdong region to citywide Geo map coverage Director monitoring Console

Conclusion :: 5

HDX Insight Geo maps are a very useful mechanism for analyzing data statistically to resolve and, with a very intuitive, super-slim and visually rich reporting console. With this in hand, gets the administrator complete insight into the whereabouts HDX users and their impact on performance with these reports it to pass through easily to the user the best possible performance and application deployment to perform.

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