Measures reported by CtxXcXABAgentTest

A broker agent lies at the heart of any VDI deployment, and is the key component for assigning resources to end users. The Citrix broker is what the client talks to in order to know what VM it is allowed to access.It is the middle component between desktops in the data center and the client and its waits for connections. When someone logs in, the Citrix broker is the one that checks with Active Directory to make sure the user is authorized. Then it checks its own DB to figure out what desktop this user has access to and finally allows the user access to the list of desktops and eventually hands that off. It also allows you to manage the Desktop sessions and Application sessions etc.

By keeping an eye on the Citrix Broker Agent, you can understand the current session load on the broker, the clients contributing to the load, and the nature of the sessions. This is exactly what the CtxXcXABAgentTest Test does.

This test monitors the Citrix broker agent and reports the count of clients registered with the Citrix broker, the session load imposed by these clients on the Citrix server, and the nature of this load - i.e., are they application sessions? or are they desktop sessions?

The measures made by this test are as follows: