Exploiting our Citrix farm with Grafana

Good, I leave you a post where we see how we can exploit the information stored by Citrix in its databases. As I imagine you know, Citrix stores in a database the records of what happens on our Citrix farm, but that is true, as much as you pay, as much as you get, that is, which depends on the Edition we have, Citrix will store information in those databases for 1 week, or 1 month or 1 year. Here we will see how to make our own panels with Grafana and without date limits!

Checking the Health of Citrix VDA Machines with Centreon

All of us who work with Citrix environments know about the criticality of VDA machines, A very simple way to know your health, will be monitored with Centreon. We will be able to know the status of the VDA agent of the machines, On the one hand, you get VDA machines that have registration problems with the Delivery Controller, and also interesting if we have one in maintenance mode.

Using Citrix Optimizer

Very good tod@s! I wanted to bring you a very interesting utility for all those who use Citrix XenApp or Citrix XenDesktop environments, is called Citrix Optimizer and we will use it in order to optimize the Operating Systems that we deliver to our users. This tool that is based on OS templates, it will run directly on the VDAs and we can run it through GUI or PowerShell!

What's new in Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.13

Impressive new features we have in a new release of Citrix core software, we talk about XenApp and XenDesktop! The version has just been released 7.13 and we have quite a few novelties as usual, but this time we have such interesting things as improvements in HDX, where thanks to a new protocol, We will optimize bandwidths at least one 60% with default settings, we will improve file transfers up to 10 times faster, thus printing times 5 times or video and audio sessions! They also do not forget the simplification of management by adding new items that were in high demand!