The enterprise monitoring space
offers a diverse portfolio of feature rich monitoring options, each
providing a myriad of different metrics, graphs, and pieces of data. In
this diverse environment one of the market leaders is IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM),
a longtime mainstay in the monitoring space because of its stability,
diverse feature set, wealth of integrations with IBM and 3rd party
technologies, and overall platform maturity. One of the facets of ITM
that makes it so desirable for a large enterprise is the diversity of
the platforms that it has the ability to monitor and manage, via the
many “agents” produced by IBM and it’s partners. With that in mind we
are very excited to discuss with you some of the exciting new features
contained in the latest version of the ITM for Virtual Environments
XenApp Agent, version 7.2 – a solution that Blue Medora co-develops with IBM.
In version 7.2 the ITM for VE XenApp Agent retains all of the
functionality of the previous version, version 7.1, so administrators
can still quickly see an overview of their individual XenApp servers ,
wrapped up in a single location. 7.2 introduces two new capabilities
that dramatically expand the scope and depth of the XenApp agent.
In the Citrix environment the license server is a critical
component that meters the distribution of license throughout the
environment, so the first feature we would like to highlight is XenApp
License Server Monitoring. The License Server monitoring feature is
displayed with-in it’s own sub-node and displays detailed metrics on
configuration, CLS Events, and most importantly license availability and
usage . XenApp License server monitoring allows an administrator to
easily, and quickly gain insight into their licensing without ever
having to navigate away from a Tivoli Enterprise Portal Console.
Conversely the XenApp 7.2 agent also gathers an extensive amount of
warehouse data, which can be aggregated by reporting tools such as
Tivoli Common Reporting.
The second feature we would like to highlight is the newly-added
remote farm monitoring functionality. With this new functionality, an
administrator is now able to install the XenApp agent on a Windows
System anywhere in the Domain and monitor a XenApp Farm remotely along
with high-level dashboard views of the XenApp Zones, WorkerGroups, and
shared XenApp Applications, with no additional software footprint on the
XenApp Server. The new XenApp remote farm node provides additional
workspaces for applications, farm, worker group, and zone information.
In addition to standalone remote monitoring, version 7.2 can also
provide remote farm monitoring, license server monitoring, and local
monitoring all from a single agent instance.
