eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by XDCatalogTest

A broker site is a top-level, logical representation of the XenDesktop site, from the perspective of the brokering services running within the site. It defines various site-wide default attributes used by the brokering services. A XenDesktop installation has only a single broker site instance.

In XenDesktop, collections of virtual machines (VMs) or physical computers of the same type are managed as a single entity called a catalog. To deliver desktops to users, the machine administrator creates a catalog of machines and the assignment administrator allocates machines from the catalog to users by creating desktop groups.

This test reports the information regarding the catalogs that are configured for this broker site.

 The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Allocation_type Indicates the allocation type of the virtual desktops that are available within the catalog to the user. Number This measure reports the following types while indicating the allocation type of the virtual desktop.
  • Permanent
  • Random

    • The numeric values that correspond to the above-mentioned types are as follows:

    Type Numeric Value Description
    Permanent 1 Indicates that the virtual desktops in this catalog are permanently assigned to the user.
    Random 2 Indicates that the virtual desktops in this catalog are picked in random and are temporarily assigned to the user.

    Note:

    By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned types while indicating the allocation type of the virtual desktops to the user. However, the graph of this measure will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents of the states as mentioned in the table above.
    Total_desktops Indicates the number of virtual desktops in this catalog. Number  
    Assigned_desktops Indicates the number of virtual desktops that have been assigned to the users. Number  
    Avail_assigned_desktops Indicates the number of virtual desktops assigned to the users, that are not available in any desktop groups. Number  
    Available_desktops Indicates the number of available virtual desktops that are not present in any desktop group. Number  
    Avail_unassigned_desktops Indicates the unassingned number of available virtual desktops that are not present in any desktop group. Number  
    Unassigned_desktops Indicates the number of virtual desktops that are not assigned to the users. Number  
    Used_desktops Indicates the number of used virtual desktops in a desktop group. Number  
    Catalog_kind Indicates the type of the catalog that contain a specified type of virtual desktops. Number This measure reports the following types while indicating the type of the catalog.
  • ThinCloned
  • SingleImage
  • PowerManaged
  • Unmanaged
  • PVS
  • Unknown

    • The numeric values that correspond to the above-mentioned types are as follows:

    State Numeric Value Description
    ThinCloned 1 This type of catalog is for the virtual desktops that are created and managed through Citrix Provisioning Service (PVS). These virtual desktops when managed, are associated with a hypervisor connection. This catalog type implies that the original golden VM image in the PVS gets cloned when the virtual desktops are assigned to the users and the data stored in the virtual desktops by the users is retained even after the restart of the virtual desktops.
    SingleImage 2 This type of catalog is for the virtual desktops that are created and managed through Citrix Provisioning Service (PVS). These virtual desktops when managed, are associated with a hypervisor connection. This catalog type implies that a single golden VM image in the PVS is shared by multiple virtual desktops when they are assigned to users and the data available in the virtual desktops are lost, once the desktops are restarted.
    PowerManaged 3 This type of catalog indicates that the managed virtual desktops are manually provisioned by the administrators. These virtual desktops when managed, are associated with a hypervisor connection.
    Unmanaged 4 This catalog type indicates that the virtual desktops are not managed and hence, there is no need for a hypervisor connection.
    PVS 5 This catalog type is for the managed virtual desktops that are provisioned using the existing PVS product. These virtal desktops when managed, are associated with a hypervisor connection. Only shared virtual desktops are suitable for this catalog type.
    Unknown 0 Indicates that the type of the catalog for the virtual desktops is unknown.

    Note:

    By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned states while indicating the catalog type. However, the graph of this measure will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents of the states as mentioned in the table above.
    Is_physical_machines Indicates whether the catalog contains any physical desktops. Boolean This measure is relevant only if the Catalog_kind measure reports a PVS type.

    This measure reports the states Yes or No while indicating whether the catalog contains any physical desktops.

    The numeric values that correspond to the above-mentioned types are as follows:

    State Numeric Value
    Yes 1
    No 0

    Note:

    By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned types while indicating whether the catalog contains any physical desktops. However, the graph of this measure will be represented using the corresponding numeric equivalents of the states as mentioned in the table above.