Category: WMI

Monitoring XenApp with WMI – Part 2: Citrix Servers

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In part 1 of this series I talked about the basics of the Citrix WMI providers. In this part, I will talk about getting all information about a XenApp server, like which farm it belongs to, what applications are published, etc.

Again, I will be using PowerShell to get the WMI classes. I will assume that you are logged in to the XenApp server to do the WMI calls. But all of these calls can be done from another server (as long as you have the correct permissions and WMI isn’t blocked by a firewall). See part 1 to get more information about remote WMI calls.

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Monitoring XenApp with WMI – Part 1: Basics

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It has been a long time ago since I last created a new post. Time for a new one! I’ve created a series of posts about starting ICA connections programmatically (by using PowerShell). These posts were about the client-side of ICA connections; in this series, I will talk about using the Windows Management Instrumation (WMI) which allows you to monitor your XenApp environment.

While Citrix did document something on eDocs, it’s not a highly-documented feature. This feature is actually quite useful when, for example, monitoring your environment.

This post is not about WMI basics, so I expect that you already know what WMI is and how it’s used. I’ll be using PowerShell as an example, but any scripting/programming language can be used to access the WMI classes. To get more information about WMI in general, visit the Microsoft MSDN site.

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