Add extra local storage to XenServer

Simple three steps:

1. Locate newly attached unpartitioned storage
 # fdisk -l  (it was sdb in my case)

2.Locate the disk ID
 # ls -al /dev/disk/by-id

3.Create the local storage repository:
 # xe sr-create content-type=user device-config:device=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx name-label="Local Storage 1" shared=false type=lvm

Modify scsi-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx , name-label with real values and you may need to rework "" as well.

Published Applications Report in Excel | Powershell

Not my work ofcourse :)

# Create variables

asnp citrix*

$outpath = [environment]::getfolderpath(“mydocuments”) + “\XenApp_Published_App_Report.csv”

$xaapplist = get-xaapplication

$appreport=foreach ($application in $xaapplist)

 {get-xaapplicationreport -BrowserName $application.BrowserName}

# pipe appreport variable and select required objects for output

Published Applications Report in Excel | VB Script

Keeping here for reference:

'Published Applications Report in Excel

strMbox = MsgBox("Do you want to include all the Applications Details?",3,"Include Details or just Basic?")

Query Services for "Log On As" info

I needed to find if there is any service running with a service account on the Citrix servers and this script helped me on Windows 2000 & 2003 servers (ofcourse not my work, posting here for records)

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Option Explicit ' force varibales to be declaired

 

' declair constant variables

Const FOR_READING = 1 ' declair OpenTextFile variables

Const FOR_WRITE = 2 ' declair OpenTextFile variables

Const FOR_APPENDING = 8 ' declair OpenTextFile variables

Query Scheduled Task

Recently I was required to audit a mix of Citrix farms for all scheduled task & find service accounts if was used any. I found this script after googling that helped me complete my task:
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@echo off

 

:: delete results.csv

del results.csv

Citrix STOP & START scripts

Situation:

Client couldn't change Citrix scheduled reboot to match with the Patching window and hence we were looking out for an option that would not only notify the connected users to logoff, that will first disable the logon and then notify the users and then logoff their sessions after 15 mins (3 reminders after every 5 mins).

IMA password reset

IMA Database password reset: ...just to keep it handy ;)

 

dsmaint config /user:ABCDomain\administrator /pwd:Password 
/dsn:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\Independent Management Architecture\mf20.dsn"

Tech Toolz: The Citrix XTE Server service terminated with serv...

Tech Toolz: The Citrix XTE Server service terminated with serv...: - no network issue - no License Issue - no permissions issue Just replaced C:\Program Files\Citrix\XTE\Conf\httpd.conf from the work...


*****Just found another interesting fact:

I just finished XA 6.5 installation in my test lab with everything installed on one server only...I faced same issue and this time there was no other working server since it was a single server farm. It forced me to think and I decided to read the content of HTTPD.CONF file and surprisingly I found that the XTE path was pointing to C:\Program Files(x86)\Citrix\Secure gateway\ and when I replaced "Secure gateway\" from the path to make it C:\Program Files(x86)\Citrix\XTE & changed same path in registry also HKLM\Software\Wow64\Citrix\xteconfig\xte then everything works fine...

Looks like CSG installation post XA installation overwritten the XTE path.

Application Publishing | some imp questions to keep handy

-  Are any of these applications CPU and memory intensive ?
-  Maximum number of sessions that would be connecting concurrently, at a specific point in time (maximum number)
-  What is the CPU and memory usage for each application (If it is not known, please provide the software and we will install in on the beta servers and ask users to test amd see for ourselves)
-  Do these applications require licenses?
-  Are they designed to run over terminal servers (we can install and find this out if you provide them)
-  Will the application require connectivity to databases (SQL / Oracle) ?
-  Will this application require connectivity to application servers on specific ports?
-  Are users new or existing ?  Is this a new site coming up that requires access to Citrix farm?
-  User location ?
-  Base OS of user workstations?
-  Installation steps, media, configurations (if an special configurations are required as part of install) ?

Speed up WebInterface 5.x

This issue is caused by a CRL check sent to Verisign. If the Web Interface server cannot access the internet, the CRL check fails and times out.