Citrix management professionals have access to
tools that allow mass deployment of commands across farms and
zones. Reports for management document service level and identify the
following: consumers of the services and trends before they become
faults.
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Non-stop availability – Alerts and alarms
measuring availability and performance of Presentation Servers, Web
Interfaces, Secure Gateways, and License Servers are displayed,
logged, and can even be linked to automatic email/paging alerts or
automatic counteraction such as rebooting or taking off-line. Logons
can be throttled to prevent the black-hole effect in a farm.
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Latency – The source of this significant
user experience problem can be confrmed and isolated to specific
components as soon as the user logon process starts. Trending reports
enable proactive solutions before users are impacted. No user/client
side agents are required
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Scalability – SPI for Citrix integrates
with the HP Operations Manager family, which is itself designed for large
corporate environments. Autodiscovery, Top 10 reports, and Mass
Commands all simplify manageability as the Citrix environment
increases.
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End-to-end – Citrix management within the
HP Operations Manager environment covers back-end applications, network equipment,
as well as full OS and hardware management. Databases, routers, SAP
Applications and Citrix Servers are all examples in the chain of
service level delivery for an ERP system. The HP Operations Manager family of
solutions automatically integrates the individual point solutions for
each link into a full end-to-end managed service
Thin
client computing via Citrix Presentation Server brings important benefits to
large corporations. However, there still remain significant challenges
for IT management:
