Citrix application infrastructures are very performance sensitive. “Citrix is slow” or “Citrix is not working” is a common complaint heard at the help desk from frustrated users. These complaints could be caused from a small problem anywhere in your infrastructure and you have to spend hours finding out where the real problem lies before you can resolve it and restore a positive user experience. Is it really a Citrix issue, or is the issue actually originating somewhere else in the infrastructure – i.e., the network, application, virtual platform, storage, etc.?
View these slides and discover how you can extend Microsoft System Operations Center (SCOM) – using the Microsoft SCOM Citrix Universal Management Pack - to monitor and manage Citrix infrastructures end to end, so when a user complains that Citrix is slow, you can pinpoint exactly where the cause of the problem lies — in just one click.
Learn how to:
• Monitor all of your Citrix tiers – XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer, NetScaler, XenMobile, etc. directly from the Microsoft SCOM console
• Get deep visibility into every aspect of Citrix performance
• Pinpoint in just one click where the real cause of a problem lies
• Proactively detect and fix performance issues before users complain
• Publish real-time dashboards in Microsoft SCOM to provide key insights for the different stakeholders in your organization
• Generate powerful, end-to-end historical and trend reports that help you optimize and right-size your Citrix infrastructure for maximum ROI
The challenge in using multiple management packs from different vendors is that there is no integration between the management packs.
Administrators get a lot of metrics about each management pack. But very little actionable information and correlated alerts are available to help them pinpoint the real root-cause of a performance issue. This leads to long problem isolation and diagnosis cycles, resulting in poor user experience and loss in user productivity.
IT operations costs also increase as domain experts end up spending time in routine fire-fighting activities. What administrators need therefore is a single integrated monitoring approach that can support Microsoft and non-Microsoft applications spanning physical and virtual infrastructures.
The integrated solution offers administrators a lot of benefits. The combined solution is a single, integrated monitoring platform that supports both Microsoft and non-Microsoft applications equally well. Administrators can view the performance of entire heterogeneous environment in the familiar SCOM console and they do not need to learn another monitoring tool or master multiple management packs from different vendors.
Administrators can even add custom monitors for new applications and devices using eG Enterprise and integrate these rapidly with SCOM.