eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by VMViewFarmsTest

Farms are collections of RDS hosts and facilitate the management of those hosts. Farms can have a variable number of RDS hosts and provide a common set of applications or RDS desktops to users. When you create an RDS desktop pool or an application pool, you must specify a farm. To know the composition of an RDS farm and track the status of the desktops and applications in the farm, take the help of the VMViewFarmsTest test.

For every RDS farm, this test reports the count of RDS hosts in the farm, the number and type of sessions active in that farm, and the state of desktops and applications in that farm.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Total_desktops Indicates the number of RDS hosts in this farm. Number  
Total_app_pools Indicates the number of application pools in this farm. Number Application pools let you deliver applications to many users. The applications in application pools run on a farm of RDS hosts.
Local_sessions Indicates the number of local sessions to desktops/applications in this farm. Number  
Remote_sessions Indicates the number of remote sessions to desktops/applications in this farm. Number  
Pcoip_session Indicates the number of PCoIP sessions to the desktops/applications in this farm. Number The details of the PCoIP sessions can be viewed in the detailed diagnosis.
Blast_session Indicates the number of Blast sessions to the desktops/applications in this farm. Number The details of the Blast sessions can be viewed in the detailed diagnosis.
Rdp_session Indicates the number of RDP sessions to the desktops/applications in this farm. Number The details of the RDP sessions can be viewed in the detailed diagnosis.
Actv_desktops Indicates the number of desktops in this farm that are in active sessions and have active remote connections to a View client. Number  
Inactv_desktops Indicates the number of desktops in this farm that are in active sessions but are disconnected from the View client. Number A non-zero value is a cause for concern.
Actv_app Indicates the number of applications in this farm that are in active sessions and have active remote connections to a View client. Number  
Inactv_app Indicates the number of applications in this farm that are in active sessions but are disconnected from the View client. Number A non-zero value warrants close scrutiny.
Is_enabled Indicates whether/not this farm is enabled.   This measure a value Yes if the farm is enabled and No, if otherwise. The numeric values that correspond to the above-mentioned states are as follows:

Measure Value Numeric Value
yes 1
No 0

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values while indicating the status of a farm. However, in the graph of this measure, the same will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents only.
Conn_count Indicates the maximum number of connections that can be established with this farm. Number Periodically, it would be good practice to compare the sum of the Local sessions and Remote sessions measures of a farm with the value of this measure. This comparison is sure to reveal whether the farm can accept additional connection requests, or is about to exhaust the allocated connections. In such a case, you may want to choose between the following corrective measures:

  • Identify and terminate all idle connections, so as to make room for newer connection requests;

  • Increase the maximum number of connections that the farm can support