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Maintaining and Troubleshooting your XenDesktop 7.5 Environment
The document discusses maintaining and troubleshooting the XenDesktop 7.5 environment, emphasizing the importance of understanding architecture and service states. It outlines learning objectives, tool usage, service validation, and scripts required for site management. Additionally, it highlights existing troubleshooting tools and resources for further learning.
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- 1. Maintaining and Troubleshootingyour XenDesktop 7.5 Environment June 2014 Mick Glover - Sr. Readiness Specialist, Worldwide Support Readiness
- 2. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.2 Presenter Bio: Mick Glover (CCI) Over 18 Years of Experience in IT Joined Citrix in January 2005 Started as Senior member of Frontline team Spent 3 years working as an Escalation Engineer Been with the WW Readiness team since 2009 Certifications: CCA, CCEE, CCIA, MCSE & CCI SME areas: XenDesktop, App Orchestration, UPM Author of the XD Tipster Blog Series and @XDtipster twitter feed
- 3. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.3 In terms of Troubleshooting & Maintaining your XenDesktop environment, very little has changed with the introduction of XenDesktop 7.5. What is required is a solid understanding of the Architecture and expected behaviour along with the ability to engage with the product through the SDK to carry out advanced administrative and configuration tasks. @XDtipster
- 4. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.4 In terms of Troubleshooting & Maintaining your XenDesktop environment, very little has changed with the introduction of XenDesktop 7.5. What is required is a solid understanding of the Architecture and expected behaviour along with the ability to engage with the product through the SDK to carry out advanced administrative and configuration tasks. @XDtipster
- 5. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.5 Agenda Maintaining and Troubleshooting your XenDesktop 7.5 Environment FMA Service States Service SQL Scripts Site Policies Troubleshooting Tools
- 6. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.6 Learning Objectives At the end of this webinar, you will be able to: Validate the true state of Controller FMA services Apply Schema update scripts against the Site DB Manually add a Controller to an existing Site using PoSH Control access to resources through PoSH Identify key Troubleshooting tools
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- 8. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.8 Viewing service states through Windows only tells half the story Example: Broker Service
- 9. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.9 Validating a Service Status What you do for one…. Get-BrokerServiceStatus (Broker) Get-ConfigServiceStatus (Configuration) Get-HypServiceStatus (Host Service) Get-AcctServiceStatus (AD Identity) Get-ProvServiceStatus (MCS) Get-MonitorServiceStatus (Monitoring) Get-AdminServiceStatus (Delegated Admin) Get-LogServiceStatus (Configuration Logging) Get-SFServiceStatus (StoreFront) Get-EnvTestServiceStatus (Test Service)
- 10. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.10 Validating a Service Status What you do for one…. Get-BrokerServiceStatus (Broker) Get-ConfigServiceStatus (Configuration) Get-HypServiceStatus (Host Service) Get-AcctServiceStatus (AD Identity) Get-ProvServiceStatus (MCS) Get-MonitorServiceStatus (Monitoring) Get-AdminServiceStatus (Delegated Admin) Get-LogServiceStatus (Configuration Logging) Get-SFServiceStatus (StoreFront) Get-EnvTestServiceStatus (Test Service)
- 11. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.11 Get-BrokerServiceStatus - Return Value Examples Status Meaning OK The broker is connected to a database that is valid, and the service is running. DBUnconfigured The broker does not have a database connection configured DBRejectedConnection The database rejected the logon from the Broker Service. This may be caused by bad credentials, or the database not being installed. InvalidDBConfigured The database schema is missing (possibly just the stored procedures in it). DBNotFound The specified database could not be located with the configured connection string. DBMissingOptionalFeature The broker is connected to a database that is valid, but it does not have the full functionality required for optimal performance. Upgrading the database is advisable. DBMissingMandatoryFeature The broker is connected to a database that is valid, but it does not have the full functionality required so the broker cannot function. Upgrading the database is required.
- 12. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.12 Get-BrokerServiceStatus - Return Value Examples Status Meaning OK The broker is connected to a database that is valid, and the service is running. DBUnconfigured The broker does not have a database connection configured DBRejectedConnection The database rejected the logon from the Broker Service. This may be caused by bad credentials, or the database not being installed. InvalidDBConfigured The database schema is missing (possibly just the stored procedures in it). DBNotFound The specified database could not be located with the configured connection string. DBMissingOptionalFeature The broker is connected to a database that is valid, but it does not have the full functionality required for optimal performance. Upgrading the database is advisable. DBMissingMandatoryFeature The broker is connected to a database that is valid, but it does not have the full functionality required so the broker cannot function. Upgrading the database is required.
- 13. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.13 FMA service characteristics Common Traits NT AUTHORITYNetwork Service Authenticate against the site DB using the local computer a/c
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- 16. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.16 SQL Service Scripts 4 script types for each FMA service FullDatabase Instance Evict Login
- 17. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.17 Examples of when to use each Script A Script for every occasion… FullDatabase • Manually create or script the creation of a new Site Instance • Manually add a controller to an existing Site Evict • Manually remove an orphaned Controller from a Site Login • Create DB Security Logon
- 18. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.18 Generating Service Scripts Use the PoSH SDK Get-<ServiceAlias>DBSchema - DatabaseName -ScriptType • Broker, Config, Hyp, Prov, Acct, SF, Monitor EnvTest, Log & Admin Examples • Get-BrokerDBSchema -DatabaseName CitrixSynergy606 -Adminaddress DC2.training.lab - ScriptType instance | out-file c:join.sql • Get-ConfigDBSchema -DatabaseName CitrixSynergy606 -Adminaddress DC2.training.lab - ScriptType instance | out-file c:join.sql -append
- 19. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.19 Generating Service Scripts Use the PoSH SDK Get-<ServiceAlias>DBSchema - DatabaseName -ScriptType • Broker, Config, Hyp, Prov, Acct, SF, Monitor EnvTest, Log & Admin Examples • Get-BrokerDBSchema -DatabaseName CitrixSynergy606 -Adminaddress DC2.training.lab - ScriptType instance | out-file c:join.sql • Get-ConfigDBSchema -DatabaseName CitrixSynergy606 -Adminaddress DC2.training.lab - ScriptType instance | out-file c:join.sql -append
- 20. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.20 Citrix Studio uses the same Scripts FullDatabase & Login
- 21. Demo Manually joining aController to an existing Site
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- 23. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.23 XenDesktop Site Policies Overview Entitlement Policy (Pooled/Shared Desktops) • Get-BrokerEntitlementPolicyRule • Get-BrokerAppEntitlementPolicyRule Assignment Policy (Dedicated/Private Desktops) • Get-BrokerAssignmentPolicyRule • Get-BrokerAppAssignmentPolicyRule Access Policy • Get-BrokerAccessPolicyRule
- 24. Demo Restricting access toresources using Site Policies
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- 26. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.26 What’s new in XenDesktop 7.5? Troubleshooting Tools The more things change… Existing Support tools are still all the rage… • Scout • XDPing (Also part of Scout) • CDFControl (Also part of Scout) • HDX Monitor • Logging/Tracing Mechanisms • PoSH (PowerShell) • Citrix Director • TASS (Citrix Insight Services)
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- 30. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.30 Resources Recommended Reading XD 7.5 PowerShell cmdlet help • http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xenapp-xendesktop-75/cds-sdk-cmdlet-help.html XenDesktop 7.5 • http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xenapp-xendesktop/cds-xenapp-xendesktop-75- landing.html
- 31. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.31 Resources Recommended Reading commended Reading What’s New in XenApp & XenDesktop 7.5 • http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/03/26/whats-new-in-xenapp-xendesktop-7-5/ Q and A on Implementing XenApp and XenDesktop 7.5 • http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/05/29/q-and-a-on-implementing-xenapp-and-xendesktop-7-5/ StoreFront 2.5 Empowers XenApp and XenDesktop • http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/03/28/storefront-2-5-empowers-xenapp-and-xendesktop/
- 32. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.32 Resources Recommended Reading Trade-up to XenDesktop • http://www.citrix.com/content/dam/citrix/en_us/documents/products-solutions/2013-trade-up-to- xendesktop-program-faqs.pdf • http://www.citrix.com/content/dam/citrix/en_us/documents/products-solutions/trade-up-to- xendesktop-program.pdf
- 33. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.33 Tweet Tweet... Stay Informed with the latest XenDesktop Tips @XDinformer • Kim Ferrie @XDtipster • Mick Glover
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- 36. © 2014 Citrix.Confidential.36 XA/XD 7.5 Webinar Series Webinar Page
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