A Citrix Virtual Apps and Deskstops or Citrix Desktop as a Service deployment does not comprise Citrix components only. For instance, SQL databases are crucial components of every Citrix VAD stack and therefore need to be monitored and managed intensively. Besides whether your Citrix delivery controllers have proper access to them, you obviously need to track the database performance and capacity as well.

Are you aware when Denial-of-Service (DoS) JavaScript triggers occur on your Citrix NetScaler devices to block DoS attacks? Do you know when exceptions are made based on 'valid' DoS cookies? MetrixInsight for NetScaler monitors for these occurrences and alarms you whenever this happens (too often).

NetScaler licenses could enforce bandwidth throughput limitation which results in the NetScaler dropping network packets. MetrixInsight for NetScaler tracks packets being dropped due to NetScaler license limit exceedance.

Certificates have a limited validity time and need to be renewed once in a while. Expired certificates may impact the availability of services. MetrixInsight for NetScaler monitors the expiration state of NetScaler certificates and alarms you when they are going to expire and have been expired.

Are you aware when an administrator has forgotten to save configuration on a Citrix NetScaler device? If configuration is not saved after a configuration change it will get lost when the NetScaler appliance restarts. This can obviously have severe consequences. MetrixInsight for NetScaler will alarm you whenever unsaved configuration is detected.

When your NetScaler appliances are running in a High Availability (HA) pair you should be aware when failovers occur, as this indicates an issue on one or both of the appliances, which you need to solve before both the appliances have the same issue. In the case the latter happens, or is already the case, the appliances will fail over continuously, which is known as HA failover ‘flip-flopping’.

GripMatix SCOM Management Pack solution for monitoring Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix DaaS, MetrixInsight for Citrix VAD/DaaS, includes comprehensive monitoring for Citrix Provisioning Service, also known as Citrix PVS. Check out our top 5 reasons to monitor this advanced Citrix software-streaming technology with GripMatix PVS SCOM Management Pack, to increase your Business Continuity and Performance.

We are happy to announce that we have released a brand-new SCOM Management Pack for monitoring Citrix Desktop as a Service (DaaS). Citrix DaaS is a Citrix Cloud service that allows you to securely deliver virtual apps and desktops from on-premise data centers and public cloud platforms in a hybrid deployment.

We know there are a couple of dashboard solutions for which integration with SCOM can or could be created. However none of them integrates better and more easily than SquaredUp Dashboard Server for SCOM. It integrates with the SCOM platform out-of-the-box, leverages the SCOM object model to the fullest and is very easy to create dashboards with. For most use cases you do not even have to create dashboards, as the product comes with many out-of-the-box community dashboard packs.

It is going to excite your fellow Citrix engineers for sure!