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Citrix Ready | Solutions Brief
Comtrade
Management for Citrix
Workspace Suite
Monitoring Citrix Workspace Suite with Microsoft
System Center Operations Manager
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Citrix Ready | Solutions Brief
Comtrade delivers a complete and integrated Microsoft System
Center based monitoring solution for Citrix Workspace Suite
without the need for any third party components. Using Comtrade
Workspace Suite Management Pack, Citrix administrators can
visualize and understand infrastructure health and interactions of
their entire Citrix Workspace Suite in a single view. Comtrade’s
solution also provides tracking of individual users and captures
their everyday application use and experience. This way, the IT
support organization, from the first line operations staff to Citrix
experts, can effectively collaborate and support their business
end-users.
Introduction
Introducing Citrix significantly impacts the way an organization is going to deliver applications,
desktops, and enable workforce mobility. Therefore, the decision making process very often
requires Citrix to easily integrate with organization’s IT operations strategy and answer questions
such as: “How do we integrate Citrix with our standard IT processes and tools to maintain our cost
structure?”, and “How are we going to guarantee high availability of our Citrix environment, meet
service levels and ensure a high level user experience?”
At Comtrade, we recognize that organizations have made significant investments into their operations monitoring tools and have trained their support organization and introduced processes to
use these tools effectively. This is why Comtrade management products are not stand-alone solutions, but instead natively plug into existing tools already in place, such as Microsoft System Center,
to enable full end-to-end monitoring across Citrix infrastructure and user experience. This
approach enables customers to leverage their existing tools and quickly integrate Citrix into their IT
organization and at the same time gain deep insight into Citrix service levels.
Solution Features
Comtrade Management Pack for Citrix Workspace Suite is a native plug-in for Microsoft System
Center Operations Manager monitoring platform. It extends its capabilities to cover the complete
Citrix Workspace Delivery Solutions components around workspace mobility: XenDesktop/XenApp,
XenServer, NetScaler, XenMobile and ShareFile.
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NetScaler Management Pack for System Center
On top of HW, OS, network and Gateway health checks, we’ve also added full high availability and
load balancing oversight. You are now quickly alerted if load balancing capacity has decreased or
stopped altogether as well as any kind of active/passive failovers.
XenDesktop/XenApp Management Pack for System Center
Version 7 of this market leading desktop virtualization solution has brought significant architecture
enhancements that enable monitoring tools to see “under the hood” deeper than ever. Each
service of each delivery controller is now under strict supervision and any kind of intercommunication issues, such as connectivity to DB or hypervisor, are immediately identified. On top of that,
detailed usage and user experience information is captured such as user logon times, applications
and machines being used, HDX communication paths that were taken, and more. StoreFront,
Provisioning Services and License Server monitoring are also an integral part of the XenDesktop/
XenApp monitoring bundle, ensuring there are no blind spots in your Citrix infrastructure.
ShareFile Management Pack for System Center
Helps you understand if ShareFile Control Plane as well as StorageZones are available, are
StorageZone servers operational and how much space is left for user data.
XenServer Management Pack for System Center
Complete pool monitoring and reporting is available from pool master down to pool member
servers and active VMs, network and storage use.
XenMobile Management Pack for System Center
Enables critical insight XenMobile servers, license errors, database acessibility as well as any noncompliant devices and the underlying non-compliance reasons.
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Conclusion
Comtrade Management for Citrix Workspace Suite monitors the entire end-to-end Citrix environment to give a complete overview of the performance and early issue warnings to the operations
staff and Citrix Administrators to ensure high availability. At the same time Comtrade provides
reports and graphs to help IT management and Citrix administrators with trending and planning to
improve performance and scalability.
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About Citrix Ready
Citrix Ready identifies recommended solutions that are trusted to enhance the Citrix Delivery Center infrastructure. All products featured
in Citrix Ready have completed verification testing, thereby providing confidence in joint solution compatibility. Leveraging its industry
leading alliances and partner eco-system, Citrix Ready showcases select trusted solutions designed to meet a variety of business needs.
Through the online catalog and Citrix Ready branding program, you can easily find and build a trusted infrastructure. Citrix Ready not only
demonstrates current mutual product compatibility, but through continued industry relationships also ensures future interoperability. Learn
more at www.citrix.com/ready.
About Partner
Comtrade Management Products is a recognized leader in enterprise application and infrastructure management for bringing native
integration to Microsoft System Center and HP Operations Manager. Our management product line delivers strong, immediate value
for customers and includes best in class solutions for the entire Citrix stack – XenApp, XenDesktop, XenMobile, XenServer, NetScaler,
StoreFront, Web Interface, Provisioning Services, License Server and CloudBridge.
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