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When multiple users connect to a Citrix XenApp server/server farm and access a wide variety of applications, the server resources too may be shared across all the users. In such cases, excessive resource utilization by a single user could impact the performance for other users. Sometimes, excessive resource utilization may be due to the browser instances that were accessed by the users. In order to minimize the resource utilization of the user, it is important to monitor the resource utilization of the browsers accessed by the users and figure out the browser that is consuming the maximum amount of resources. The CtxXcXABrowserTest test helps administrators in this regard!

This test auto-discovers the browsers accessed by each user connected to a Citrix XenApp server/server farm, and for each browser, reports the number of sessions initiated and the number of processes running. This test also reports the resource utilization of each browser. Using this test, administrators can figure out the browser that is responsible for excessive resource utilization of a user.

Outputs of the test : One set of results for the Citrix XenApp server monitored.

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
No_of_sessions	Indicates the total number of user sessions initiated through this browser.	Number
No_of_processes	Indicates the number of processes running for this browser.	Number	The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the Process ID, Website Title, Website URL and the Website domain.
CPU_utilization	Indicates the percentage of CPU utilized by the processes running for this browser.	Percent	A high value for this measure is a cause of concern. Comparing the value of this measure across browsers helps administrators in identifying the browser that is utilizing too much of CPU resources. The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the session ID, Process ID, the CPU utilized by the process and the memory utilized by the process.
Memory_utilization	Indicates the percentage of memory utilized by the processes running for this browser.	Percent	A high value for this measure is a cause of concern. Comparing the value of this measure across browsers helps administrators in identifying the browser that is utilizing too much of memory resources. The detailed diagnosis of this measure lists the session ID, Process ID, the CPU utilized by the process and the memory utilized by the process.