eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by CtxImaTest

This test reports various statistics relating to the Citrix Independent Management Architecture (IMA). Citrix IMA is an architectural model and a protocol for server to server communications. IMA includes a collection of subsystems that define and control the execution of Citrix products. The functions enabled by IMA include:

  • Central administration of all the Citrix servers

  • Central license management and pooling without license gateways

  • Centralized data store for all Citrix configurations

  • Auditing of administration activities, etc.

This test reports the IMA-related communications from this Citrix server to other Citrix servers. One set of results is reported for each server to server communication. 

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Data_rcvd_rate Represents the rate at which data is received by the server from another Citrix server in the farm KBytes/Sec Evaluate the IMA traffic periodically to explore alternative configurations (e.g., splitting a farm) to minimize network overheads. The IMA traffic between servers can be high if the indirect mode of data store access is used - in this case, only one server in the farm directly accesses the data store. All other servers rely on this server to access the data store
Data_xmit_rate Represents the rate at which IMA data is sent by a server to another server in the farm KBytes/Sec  
Network_connections Number of active IMA network connections from a server to another IMA server Number