eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by PVSFarmTest

A farm represents the top level of a Provisioning Server infrastructure. Farms provide a "Farm Administrator" with a method of representing, defining, and managing logical groups of Provisioning Server components into sites.

All sites within a farm share that farm's Provisioning Server MS SQL database. A farm also includes a Citrix License Server, local or network shared storage, and collections of target devices.

This test helps you understand the composition of your Citrix Provisioning server farm, and also proactively alerts critical problems such as:

  • A sudden break in the connectivity between the Provisioning server farm and the Citrix Licensing server;
  • Inaccessibility of the database server

 The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
LicenseServerAvail Indicates the availability of the Citrix License Server which is used to hold the Citrix Provisioning Server licenses. Percent If the value returned is 0, it indicates that the farm is not able to reach the Citrix License server. The value 100 indicates that the License server is accessible.

If a Citrix License server is suddenly rendered unavailable, then all active Provisioning Services clients will continue working until a restart occurs. If the License server continues to remain unavailable during startup, then the clients go to grace period; till the end of the grace period of 720 hours, the Provisioning Services clients continue working. Once the grace period ends, the clients restart again. If the Citrix License server is still unavailable, then the clients receive a five-minute shutdown-warning message; at the end of the 5 minutes, the clients shutdown.

If the License server is unavailable, you may want to use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to determine the IP address and port number of the License server, so that further investigations can be performed.
DatabaseServerAvail Indicates the availability of the Provisioning server database. Percent If the value returned is 0, it is indicative of the absence of connectivity between the farm and its database. The value 100 on the other hand indicates that the database is accessible.

The database stores all system configuration settings that exist within a farm. Typically, each farm is associated with a single database. All Provisioning servers in a farm must be able to connect to that database. If the database is unavailable, it can bring the entire Citrix Provisioning infrastructure to a standstill. In the event of the non-availability of the database therefore, you may want to use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to determine the IP address and port number of the database server, so that further investigations can be performed.
PVSSitesCount Indicates the number of sites that have been configured in this farm. Number A site provides both a "Site Administrator" and farm administrator, with a method of representing and managing logical groupings of Provisioning Servers, Device Collections, and local shared storage.

To know which sites are part of the farm, use the detailed diagnosis of this measure.
PVSServersCount Indicates the number of Citrix Provisioning servers as member servers in the Citrix Provisioning server farm. Number To know which servers are part of the farm, use the detailed diagnosis of this measure.
PVSStoresCount Indicates the number of stores created in the Citrix Provisional Server farm. Number A store is a logical name that is given to a physical vDisk storage location. The store name is the common name used by all Provisioning Servers within the farm.

To know which stores are part of the farm, use the detailed diagnosis of this measure.
PVSFarmViewsDefined Indicates the number of views created in the Citrix Provisional Server farm. Number You can create views containing target devices to display only those target devices that you are currently interested in viewing or performing tasks on. Adding target devices to a view provides a quick and easy way to perform a task on members of that view, such as:
  • Boot
  • Restart
  • Shutdown
  • Send message
Views can be created at the site level or at the farm level.

To know which views are part of the farm, use the detailed diagnosis of this measure.