This test enables administrators to find out whether a Virtual Desktop Agent is available or not on each virtual desktop within each desktop group managed by the XenDesktop Broker - 5.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the XDVDAvailTest.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed. 

• In the VIRTUAL DESKTOP AGENT PORT, specify the port using which the XenDesktop Broker - 5 connects to the virtual desktops. By default, 80 is displayed here.

• By default, the REPORT BY GROUPNAME flag is set to Yes, indicating that this test reports a set of measures for every desktopgroup:virtualdesktop combination, by default. To ensure that this test reports a set of measures for every virtualdesktop alone, set this flag to No.

• By default, the REPORT BY CONTROLLERNAME flag is set to Yes. This implies that every desktopgroup:virtualdesktop pair for which this test reports metrics will be prefixed by the controllername as well. Every descriptor will hence be of the following format by default: Controllername->desktopgroup:virtualdesktop. If you want to remove the controllername prefix from the descriptors, then, set this flag to No.

• By default, the ONLY POWEREDON VMS flag is set to Yes, indicating that this test reports the availability of the virtual desktop agent on powered-on VMs alone. To know the availability of this agent on powered-off VMs as well, set this flag to No.

• Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the Update button will register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with “$” indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. e.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to “xyz” and $port will be changed to “80” when configuring a test.