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GSLB on NetScaler

This blog post is the first in a series highlighting actual questions asked to eG Enterprise during customer support calls and our answers to those. At first, it appeared that this customer had a simple active/passive web server set-up to provide failover resilience. However, it transpired that they were using Citrix ADC’s (was NetScaler) GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing) features.

Monitor the impossible with 2 Steps - Testimonial with Citrix

Having trouble monitoring your Citrix applications? Are you limited by Selenium testing? Automate and measure workflows and user journeys Find all your performance data within Splunk With 2 Steps Synthetic Monitoring"2 Steps is a Citrix Ready Partner providing valuable synthetic monitoring capabilities for applications being accessed via Citrix.” John Panagulias Director Citrix Ready Citrix

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We are GripMatix and believe in no-nonsense tooling to help organizations leveraging the quality of their IT infrastructure and applications and ensure Business Continuity. We think that quality tooling does not need too much explanation. What you see is what you get. We provide CITRIX® Ready Monitoring and because we have a lot of experience in IT consulting for many years ourselves, we provide value by offering tooling made by the experts, for the experts.

Monitoring the Citrix Delivery Controllers

When the Citrix architecture moved from v6 to v7, one of the main components that was introduced in the v7 architecture was the Citrix Delivery Controller (CDC). A Citrix Delivery Controller is a server-side component that is responsible for managing user access and brokering (enabling application and desktop access) and optimizing connections. Each site will have one or more delivery controllers.

Citrix Monitoring on SCOM | New Management Pack by NiCE & Teqwave

NiCE and Teqwave join forces to enable next-level Citrix monitoring on Microsoft SCOM. Both companies have a long-standing relationship in delivering SCOM-based monitoring services to large-scale enterprises. Our companies are partnering to help Citrix solution owners and administrators providing even better services and end-user experience. The Citrix Management Pack by Teqwave is a proven solution enabling discovery, monitoring, advanced analytics, and reporting on essential Citrix components.

Citrix Issues and Problems

A few days ago, we hosted a very well received webinar presented by Barry Schiffer (CTP) from eG’s Benelux team and George Spiers, CTP and real-world Citrix Administrator. They covered key questions and workflows, such as: A colleague and I were answering questions during the live webinar, and we received a lot of questions. One of the best things about participating in these webinars is the high quality and breadth of questions that we receive from the attendees.

Citrix Tips for Troubleshooting

I recently saw a user asking on EUC Slack “is there a Domain controller response time in ?”. Unfortunately for him, his choice of monitoring product doesn’t include such metrics. However, it did make me wonder if Citrix admins are aware of the importance of getting metrics about Domain Controllers, simply because many EUC monitoring tools fail to monitor them.

eG Enterprise, the virtual assistant that every Citrix Admin needs

eG Enterprise is the virtual assistant, who’ll make your life a whole lot easier. Just like Siri and Alexa, eG will proactively monitor your IT & applications. Wouldn’t you want to know what these extra sets of hands can deliver? Watch this short video to know how automatic root-cause diagnosis tech, Citrix service topology views, synthetic & real user monitoring capabilities, and machine learning and auto-baselining tech enable you to be the IT hero among your peers, colleagues, and the management.

Continue to monitor your Citrix NetScalers after December 2021 with SCOM

As you might know, all Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC/NetScaler) 11.x versions will be End of Life after 31-Dec-2021. Make sure you have these business critical systems upgraded to at least 12.1 before this date, to be able to get the latest updates and keep protected from exploits and hacks making use of any vulnerabilities.