Atlantis ILIO Center can monitor the health and availability of ILIO Session- and Replication hosts. If necessary ILIO Center sends alerts via SMTP (aka Mail) or via a SNMP trap (push). However, if the ILIO Center experiences an unexpected shutdown or network connectivity is lost, a SNMP trap is never sent (or in case of lost of network connectivity: the monitoring system does not receive the trap).

Additional monitoring can be done via ping or by monitoring the state of the VM. However, verifying the availability of a machine via ping could result in false-positives and not each monitoring system can monitor the state of a VM, therefore you might want to monitor via SNMP polling (pull).

A vanilla installation of Atlantis ILIO (Center) does not have an SNMP agent installed, therefore I wrote a script that can push the agent and/or update the configuration. You can find the download at the bottom of this article.

On April 4^th this year Citrix announced that no Synergy would be held in Europe, unlike previous years, and a new approach for the customer conference strategy was introduced: multiple regional mobility events.The article insinuated that Synergy Europe was replaced with the local conferences, starting with three mobility events (in Paris, Munich and London).

Today I’ve attended the first Mobility event in Paris with fellow peers Kees Baggerman (@KBaggerman) and Barry Schiffer (@barryschiffer) and I would like to share my experiences with you.

In my previous article you’ve read about my aversion against the term VDI. The introduction of Citrix XenDesktop 7 showed us that delivery of  applications and desktops from shared and private computers are now integrated in one product. This requires us to explain the difference between shared versus private instead of XenApp versus XenDesktop, so now really is the time to start using new (and proper) terminology.

In the previous virtual desktop word bingo article I’ve asked you if you think we should abandon the term VDI, 61% agreed while 26% disagreed. The response showed that a lot of readers agree the term VDI is “incorrect” but replacing the term will be tough. Nonetheless I strongly believe we, as the community / experts, should strive to replace “VDI” with more future ready terminology. 

I have developed a strong aversion against the term “VDI”. Basically because customers don’t understand what VDI means, caused by the simple fact that the people who explain this to the customers (the people in IT) don’t understand it either.

The term VDI is roughly 7 years old. Back then we presumed it was the right term to use, and maybe it was. But time has changed and I strongly believe we are ready for some change.

Are you ready for some virtual desktop word bingo?

Denamik introduces the Denamik Analyzer, an add-on to the Denamik LoadGen product. With Denamik LoadGen one can perform load- and stress tests on hosted shared and hosted private infrastructures like Citrix XenApp and XenDestop.

While the LoadGen executes a test and gathers data about the performance metrics and response times, visualizing and analyzing the data required a third party solution and knowledge about the performance indicators. The Denamik Analyzer now enables you to analyze the captured data, create and save charts and start creating a report in minutes.

I’ve had the opportunity to play with an early release of the Denamik Analyzer in my lab and get some hands-on experience.