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How to produce historical access reports from your Citrix Access Gateway Advanced Environment

October 29th, 2008 • Lee Wynne • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Hello,

 

Is there anybody out there that is using the Citrix Access Gateway Advanced edtion who is incredibly frustrated with the naff built in reporting utilities? 

 

Knowing who accessed what and when is pretty important stuff don’t you think?  But have you actually tried to produce a report for your security team yet with all that information in there?  Not unless you have exported the event log entries and have managed to take multiple screen shots of the event log consolidator… Nice but no thanks…

 

A quick Google of “Access Gateway Reporting” returns a product called ‘Clear 2 View’ which claims to fill the void of historical and advanced reporting which is a much needed (a no brainer to be honest) feature of the Access Gateway product range.  

 

Here is how to install it:

 

A Free Citrix XenApp Application Compatibility Script

September 9th, 2008 • Lee Wynne • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

This script has been developed to setup an application environment before an application is launched on a Citrix XenApp or Terminal Server.

 

Features (before application launch).  Instructions are included within the script.

 

tick1.gif  Automatic Creation of Registry Keys.

tick1.gif  Automatic Creation of Folders.

tick1.gif  Automatic Copying of Folders, Files.

tick1.gif  Automatic Mapping of Network Drives.  

tick1.gif  Validation of Active Directory Group Membership (XenApp Groups) Before Launching.

tick1.gif  Checks for existing files, folders and registry keys before overwriting.

 

Download it here 

 

How to set up a free iSCSI or NAS storage system for VMware ESX using Openfiler

August 23rd, 2008 • Lee Wynne • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

 

Everything I am about to demonstrate to you here is free. You won’t have to spend a penny on software to build this architecture, the end result here is a centralised storage system that can be used for iSCSI or NAS storage hosting to all your ESX clients to enable the use of VMotion, HA and DRS services.

 

VMware ESXi is free and can be downloaded here. Openfiler NAS/iSCSI appliance is free and can be downloaded here

 

Let us begin.

 

First of all, we will build or iSCSI or NAS device using ‘Openfiler’. You can download Openfiler from the link above, it is an easy installation (very similar to VMware ESX actually). Here are the required steps to get Openfiler up and running:

 

 

Setting up Configuration Logging in Presentation Server 4.5

June 11th, 2008 • technewzdude • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

New to Presentation Server 4.5, Configuration Logging will log all changes made in the Citrix Access Management Console (for the Presentation Server node only) and the Presentation Server Console.  So it will log changes to published applications, farm level settings, server level settings, etc. It will not however log changes made using the Password Manager Node, Web Interface Node, or Access Gateway nodes, even though they show up in the Access Management Console.

 

Changing the IP address, default gateway and hostname of the Service Console in ESX Server 3.x

June 9th, 2008 • Lee Wynne • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

This article describes how to change the service console IP address, gateway address and hostname on your ESX Server 3.x host.  These settings can be changed using the Virtual Infrastructure Client or from the physical or a remote console connection (ILO, RSA, DRAC, etc)

Citrix Access Gateway Advanced Load Balancing Contingency and High Availability Design Options

June 5th, 2008 • Lee Wynne • 1 comment • Related • Filed Under

 Citrix Access Gateway Advanced Edition is a great product, lots of my time is spent designing, implementing and integrating this product usually with a Citrix XenApp backend which includes Web Interface.

One question seems to always pop up though.  Is it resilient and what happens if a component of the infrastructure fails?

 

Let us take a look at the components required to build the infrastructure and what might happen if one fails.  We will start at the front end and work backwards from there (as this is what the client hits first).

 

Extending Xen iSCSI backend storage devices by adding another iSCSI LUN

June 3rd, 2008 • technewzdude • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

I needed to add more storage space on the /home directory of a Xen guest running on a RHEL5 system. I investigated extending its LUN on the NetApp Filer and then tried running pvresize to see if the Xen guest would recognise the new size. No luck. In the end, i created another iSCSI LUN, mapped it to the Xen host, configured the Xen guest to see the new LUN and let LVM know it had another physical disk to play with. This is how i did it.

 

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