Measures page

eG agents are capable of extracting a wealth of performance information pertaining to the managed components. Larger the environment, larger will be the number of measures collected. The biggest challenge for the administrators of such large environments therefore, is to isolate and attend to the anomalies surrounding certain critical performance metrics. For instance, administrators of large, mission-critial Citrix environments might want to focus on some sensitive performance areas such as user sessions to the Citrix farm, resource usage by applications published on the farm, the rate of growth of the user profiles, etc. The metrics related to these areas are mapped to different layers and different tests of the Citrix monitoring model. Instead of taking the longer layer-test-measure route, administrators might prefer a single interface that provides a consolidated list of metrics collected from across the Citrix environment, so that they can easily pick and choose the metrics of interest to them. To open the Measures page, click on the icon available in the Monitor tab. Then, select the Measures option in the Misc tile.

To view the metrics related to a specific component, select a component from the Component list. If there are too many components in the list to choose from, you can narrow your search further by typing the whole/part of the component name/type in the Component list box. The Component list will then be populated with all component names and/or component types that embed the specified search string. Select the component of your choice from this list.

If you want to know which metrics are in a particular state currently, select a state from the State list. You can also search for a measure by its name, by specifying the whole/part of the measure name in the Measure text box. After specifying the necessary search criteria, click the Submit button. All the measures that fulfill the given criteria will then be listed in this page, along with their current state and values.

Instead of viewing a wide variety of metrics, if you want to view the details of a particular measure associated with a chosen component, click on the icon. The List of Measures pop up window that the eG agent has extracted from the selected component will then appear.

Clicking on any of the measure in the List of Measures section will update you with the current status and value of that measure for the chosen component. You can click on the measure value to view the detailed diagnosis / graph (whichever is available) of the corresponding measure during the last 1 hour.

To be able to quickly access key measures, you can save the frequently accessed or critical measures as Favorites. To achieve this, click on the measure in the List of Measures section, and then, click on the Add to Favourites () icon. The chosen measure will automatically get added to the List of Favorite Measures section. You can delete a ‘favorite’, by simply clicking the icon next to the measure in the Favorite Measures section.