What new with HDX Monitor 2.X for XenDesktop

If anyone have used HDX monitor 1.x will surely understand what I am talking about. HDX monitor was designed to provide ICA session information. Earlier version does not use to allow to launch for non ICA session .

With HDX 2.x you can lunch even without ICA session . This also allow you to connect to any other machine

 

Once connected following information is can be gathered under non ICA session . You can see all the star info . This also allow you to generate report

All the threshold can be tweaked by changing setting

 

When you look via ICA session check this beautiful report :)

 

Now if this is launched via XA session , you can see all the session from single ICA window

Something to fall in love with

How to Disable Shift F2 for Citrix published desktop (HSD)

When XenApp desktop (Hosted Shared desktop ) is published user can use Shift +F2 to minimize the desktop . Below test is with  XenApp 6.5 and webinterface 5.4 along with Citrix receiver 3.2. To disable this completely we have to make changes to defult.ica and webinterface.conf for particular site as shown below.

Avaya CMS Supervisor Error <429> with XenApp 6.5

When Avaya CMS supervisor used to be launch within XA hosted desktop error used to throw <429?

This require specific permission per forum. Create folder C:\Program Files\Avaya if this does not exit .  Give authenticated users full control on the folder:

C:\Program Files\Avaya  and C:\Program Files (x86)\Avaya.

Now Avaya CMS is launching fine

Configuring Reporting Service on SQL 2008 Cluster for EdgeSight

After installing reporting service on SQL 2008 windows cluster , I was getting error HTTP 404 page not found when ever I tried to access the URL

I found that port was set to 80 by default for virtual directory and URL was not the blue.

I changed the port to 8080 as suggest by Google uncle and then this URL turned into blue

Now after this I was able to open the web page but now got some other error message. The report server installation is not initiated. (rsReportServerNotActivated) 

Even EdgeSight server was giving me different error stating that report server installation is not initialized.

What I found that Report Manager URL had yellow marked . After clicking on apply that went off and url appeared.

 

This also did not helped then I checked scale out deployment and found that one server has status to be joined. Did cluster failover and connected and joined the server.

After that configuration of reporting service was straight forward . Typed the username password and it started configuring ES reporting database without any issue . CTX130967 is a great article to follow for installing EdgeSight.

Can I expand ISCSI HBA connected to XenServer 6.0.2 online ?

Yes you can and CTX 120865 works like a charm. Make sure from the storage system the lun has been expanded to the desire size. Now ensure all the VM's on that lun is power off to be on safer side.  Below example where SR is expanded from 1 TB to 2TB

1. Run the xe sr-list and note down the UUID for the SR as shown below

2. Now perform the following steps as shown below. Unplug/Replug/resize/rescan

3. Xencenter will show the correct size of SR now. Power on all the VM’s