Citrix and Nagios

[Kevin Mau]

I currently have the responsibility of monitoring a citrix and terminal
server farm and implementing monitoring on everything.
The biggest benefit's I think can be realized from using nc_net
installed on the server. With this im able to monitor everything and do
a lot of customized monitoring. Such as using performance counters to
monitor total ica users and inactive ica users as one small example.
This is a huge benefit because it quickly lets us know if our balancer
goes out of wack and to many users are being loaded onto one server.
Were also able to monitor disk i/o, cpu load, uptime, service states,
memory usage, event logs (HUGE HUGE benefit) write our own custom wmi
queries, processes running in memory. You can get as creative as you
want in how you want to monitor anything, between nc_net and nrpe I have
yet to find something im not able to monitor in some type of way.
Service pack level, hot fix's applied, etc

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Vicky P.
Retzke
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 3:04 PM
To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Citrix and Nagios

We implemented Nagios 1.2 about a year ago and currently monitor about
130 hosts/500 services in our unix environment.  My boss has been trying
to convince the manager of the Windows team to begin using Nagios to
monitor the servers within the Microsoft environment, but has, so far,
been unsuccessful.  The largest portion of the Windows servers are
components within the Citrix architecture and, being unfamiliar with
Citrix, I'm been unable to really demonstrate how Nagios could be
valuable in monitoring the Citrix environment.  I've read what I could
find in the users list archives and compiled the
check_ica_* plugins but can not get permission to even demonstrate any
of the capabilities of Nagios on the Windows servers.

What I'm hoping to find via this list is just a quick summary of how
current users are using Nagios to monitor their Citrix implementation.  
Do you just use the existing plugins to monitor the master browser and
published applications, do you monitor specific services on each
component, do you do "end-to-end" monitoring (this is what our Windows
manager is looking for and is currently looking at 3rd party products 
that profess to do that).   Again, I'm not a Citrix/Windows user or 
admin, so I apologize if my question seems vague.

Thank you for any information that might help in my lobbying efforts!

Vicky Retzke
Unix System Administrator
Overnite, A UPS Company


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