eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by CtxSRAgentTest

Citrix Session Recording Agent is a Windows service installed on a Citrix XenApp server. The recording agent is responsible for capturing and recording the on-screen activities and transferring the content to the Session Recording Server using the Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) service. Administrators may wish to know the workload handled by the recording agent, so that they can ensure that the server is sized with adequate processing power for handling the load. The Citrix Session Recording Agent test helps administrators determine the workload of the Session Recording Agent.

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

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Active_record_count Indicates the number of sessions that are currently being recorded by the recording agent on the XenApp Server OS VDA machine. Number This measures is a good indicator of current workload of the recording agent.
Msg_data_received Indicates the rate at which the Session Recording Agent reads data (in KB) from kernel components responsible for acquiring session data. KB/sec