Default Parameters for ACUserSysTest

This test auto-discovers the users who are currently logged into the AppController, and for each user, reports the open sessions for that user and the number of successful and failed application launches per user. This way, the test points to those users with the maximum number of failed application launches. Such users naturally are the ones with a poor quality experience with the AppController.

For this test to run and report metrics, the AppController should be configured to create a Syslog file in a remote Syslog server, where the details and status of all user interactions with the AppController will be logged. To configure the Syslog server where this Syslog file should be created, refer to the Monitoring the Citrix AppController document.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the ACUserSysTest.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

• This test reports metrics by parsing a Syslog file. Specify the full path to the Syslog file in the LOG FILE PATH text box. To know how to configure the Syslog server where the AppController will be creating this file, click here.

• The test discovers the users who are currently logged into the AppController by reading the entries in the User column of the specified syslog file. Sometimes, this column may have a few blank entries. By default, this test ignores these blank entries. This is why, the SHOW OTHER USERS flag is set to No by default. If you set this flag to Yes, then the test will report metrics for these blank entries as well. In this case, the test will additionally report a set of metrics for an Others descriptor. Each measure of the Others descriptor will report a value that is an aggregate of the values recorded for the blank entries in the Syslog file.

• Indicate whether/not AppController is SSL-enabled. By default, the SSL flag is set to Yes.

• Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the UPDATE button will register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with “$” indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to “xyz” and $port will be changed to “80” when configuring a test.