eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by CtxNsIsIcaUsrAgTest

Users can connect to applications/virtual desktops using may client devices – the ICA client, web browsers, mobile phones, tablets, etc. Each such client device is called a user agent. Users using certain types of client devices/user agents may be engaged in bandwidth-intensive communication over ICA, scarring the experience of other users to the XenApp/XenDesktop environment. To capture such problem conditions quickly, it would be best to know what types of client devices users are connecting from and how much bandwidth each of these device types are currently consuming. This is exactly what the CtxNsIsIcaUsrAgTest test reveals!

This test auto-discovers the types of client devices that are interacting with the applications/virtual desktops, and reports the bandwidth usage of each device type. This way, the test leads administrators to those device types that are consuming bandwidth excessively.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Avg_bandwidth Indicates the rate at which data is transferred over the ICA sessions lauched from this device type. Mbps Ideally, the value of this measure should be low.

A high value indicates excessive bandwidth usage by users connecting from the device type.

Compare the value of this measure across device types to know users using which type of device are engaged in bandwidth-intensive communication over ICA.
Total_bytes Indicates the amount of data (in MB) transferred to / received from this device type during the last measurement period. MB A consistent increase in the value of this measure over time is indicative of excessive bandwidth usage by a device type.