eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by CtxXcXDDSTest

When a site is deployed, it must have an associated data store. The site data store is where persistent information about the farm, such as configuration information and administrator account information, is stored. By default, a database for this is created locally when you create your server farm, but you can choose to use a database on a separate server. Typically, the site uses three databases for storing information:

  • Site: (also known as site configuration) stores the running site configuration, plus the current session state and connection information.

  • Configuration logging: (also known as logging) stores information about site configuration changes and administrative activities. This database is used when the configuring logging feature is enabled.

  • Monitoring: stores data used by Director, such as session and connection information

Controllers in a site query the data stores for configuration, monitoring and logging information when attempting to come online/run services/troubleshooting issues. If the data store from which the controller seeks information from is unavailable or is inaccessible for long hours, controllers will be remain offline or will not be able to run the services/troubleshoot, thus denying users access to virtual desktops in the site. Also, the Delivery Controller may not be able to deliver services to users in time, which will adversely degrade user experience. To avoid this, administrators can run the Citrix Data Store test at frequent intervals, check whether/not the data store is running, and in this way, detect failures before users complain.

Outputs of the test : One set of results for each service:data store of Delivery Controller that is being monitored.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Status Indicates whether the current status of the data store.   The values that this measure can take and their corresponding numeric values are as follows:

Measure Value Numeric Value
OK 1
DBUnconfigured 2
DBRejectedConnection 3
InvalidDBConfigured 4
DBNewerVersionThanService 5
CtxXcXDDSTest:Status:6-6=DBOlderVersionThanService 6
DBVersionChangeInProgress 7
PendingFailure 8
Failed 9
Unknown 10
DBNotFound 11
DBMissingOptionalFeature 12
DBMissingMandatoryFeature 13

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values to indicate the status of the data store. However, the graph of this measure will represent the same using the numeric equivalents only.