How to monitor all aspects of Citrix NetScaler usage and performance within the context of any digital service.

The last year has been tumultuous for everyone. For the end-user computing community, it was an extraordinary time with everyone having to deal with new requirements from their businesses at short notice. Over the last 3 months, xenappblog and eG Innovations conducted a survey to learn how organizations have adapted their digital workspaces to the new normal. For this webinar titled Digital Workspace Deployment and Performance Monitoring in the New Normal, we have invited three EUC experts to analyze and share their thoughts on the key findings of this survey of over 1050 digital workspace professionals. Join this webinar and learn answers to several key questions, such as how many organizations adopted digital workspaces for the first time, how many are using cloud workspaces, how popular are different workspace technologies, how many monitoring tools are being needed to get a complete view of the digital workspace environment, and many more. #digitalworkspace

One of the most challenging tasks for a Citrix administrator is when a user calls in complaining of a Citrix problem: logon is slow, session is getting disconnected, application launch is slow, session itself is slow, etc. So, how does a Citrix admin go about solving these issues? A Citrix infrastructure has many tiers and dependencies. Where do you start looking, what do you analyze, and how do you triage? Watch this webinar by George Spiers, Citrix CTP and EUC Architect, who shares his real-world experience to help you learn the art of Citrix troubleshooting. You will find out how to: • Methodically go about finding the scope, magnitude of impact, and source of the problem • Troubleshoot common Citrix problems like slow logons, slow app/desktop launch, disconnecting sessions, frozen sessions, etc. • Investigate issues in the supporting infrastructure (network, AD, virtualization, etc.) • Optimize the Citrix environment for maximum performance At the end, we discuss how automated monitoring can help accelerate performance troubleshooting.

Citrix Cloud services simplify the delivery and management of Citrix solutions, helping our users to extend their existing on-premises software deployments or even move one hundred percent to the cloud. Citrix Cloud services deploy secure digital workspaces in hours, placing the sensitive app, desktop and data resources on any cloud or hybrid cloud. Accessing the apps, desktops and any data has become easy than ever with Citrix Workspace. Citrix Workspace fully aggregates all apps, data, and files across all applications, and it offers a user-centric experience where everything you need to work is in one unified app, with conditional access and performance made simple based on user context and IT-designed policies. Citrix Cloud services support the integration with different technologies that vary significantly from one organization to another. The first step for users is to access their provisioned desktops, applications, and files, which is why monitoring the logon performance has become critical for Citrix solutions. That's why eG Innovations provides a free login simulator for Citrix Workspace, through their eG Enterprise solution which is verified as Citrix Ready. One of the primary requirements by organisations is to achieve exceptional Citrix user experience and service quality. eG Enterprise helps to proactively monitor all aspects of Citrix user experience - login times, application launch times, screen refresh latencies, virtual channel bandwidth usage, etc., and more importantly helps to identify underlying infrastructure tiers to help determine where the root cause of a problem lies; whether it is network, database, application, Citrix, or storage. Discover how Citrix and eG Innovations combine to provide you with end-to-end performance management and learn how to: • Deliver a secure digital workspace, and to improve business productivity with a fully integrated digital workspace from any cloud or hybrid cloud. • Ensure the success of new deployments and migration to Citrix Cloud with pre-built migration reports • End-to-end monitoring of Citrix services across user experience, session performance, connectivity, licensing, infrastructure health and capacity • Monitor Citrix services on physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures from Single pane of glass.

Among all the administration, maintenance and troubleshooting chaos in your daily life as a Citrix admin, don’t you dream of becoming a Citrix hero? Watch this on-demand webinar where DJ Eshelman, Citrix Coach, CUGC Leader and a CTA, walks us through seven essential dos and don’ts for Citrix professionals, based on over a decade’s worth of real-world experience. In this session, you’ll learn: • The methods and practices that successful Citrix professionals adopt • How to take cues from users and data to build Citrix environments that run smoothly and efficiently, and yet cut down on risks and workarounds • How being proactive instead of reactive unlocks a world where you are less stressed and more fulfilled in what you are doing Every Citrix admin can become a Citrix Hero. By applying these seven lessons, you can spend less time worrying about your next Sev1 outage and more time enjoying life outside the office.

A recent survey by eG Innovations and xenappblog found that 68% of organizations are using 2-5 different tools for monitoring and managing their Citrix infrastructure. Multiple monitoring tools make it expensive to operate and troubleshoot IT infrastructure issues. Furthermore, a lot of manual effort is required to diagnose and fix performance issues. Join Richard Faulkner, Enterprise Solutions Architect and CTP from Conversant Group, and John Worthington, Director of Customer Success at eG Innovations, and learn how you can get a single-pane-of-glass view of your Citrix infrastructure – from the client end to the virtual desktops/apps and even the backend applications. See how you can: --Monitor and get proactive alerts on the experience seen by Citrix users --Track the performance of every layer and every tier of your Citrix infrastructure: NetScalers, StoreFronts, Virtual apps and desktops, WEM, PVS, License servers, etc. --Troubleshoot in a single click and identify where the root-cause of a problem is: network, or storage, or virtualization, or the Citrix stack? --Get insights to right-size and optimize your Citrix deployment

The SCOM management packs for Citrix are reaching End Of Life this month. You can move to a standalone monitoring solution like Citrix Director, but this means you will no longer be able to use Microsoft SCOM as the single unified monitoring console for your organization. You now have a chance to convert the EOL into a new beginning. The eG Universal management pack for SCOM provides you with the best Citrix monitoring solution integrated tightly with your SCOM environment. What is more, you can also monitor other non-Microsoft technologies without needing additional management packs. Learn more on, how you can make End Of Life for your Citrix SCOM management packs bring new life into your SCOM environment: •Learn how to augment SCOM with logon simulation and deep Citrix domain expertise •Leverage patented analytics for all your applications, Azure cloud services, and infrastructure •Get code-level correlation for .NET applications and quickly isolate performance issues

Introducing eG Enterprise v7: The industry's most advanced user experience monitoring solution. eG Innovations application performance monitoring solutions simplify and accelerate discovery, diagnosis, and resolution of application performance problems in virtual, physical, and cloud environments.

This document discusses approaches to monitoring digital user experience. It defines digital user experience and explains why it is important. Common approaches covered include analytics, synthetic user monitoring, real user monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring. Both synthetic and real user monitoring are needed to fully understand user experience. Real user monitoring provides insight into actual user behavior and interactions but requires users. Synthetic monitoring allows testing when no users are present. Infrastructure monitoring helps identify performance issues related to applications and infrastructure. Together these approaches provide full visibility from end users to infrastructure.

Logon is a user's first interaction with the Citrix digital workspace service, and hence, a slow logon can influence a user's opinion of the service in a way that no other metric can. Therefore, logon time is the #1 key performance indicator (KPI) in Citrix environments. Slow logons have an impact not just on user perception, but also on productivity. When each logon takes minutes — maybe on multiple systems — it results in lost work time and costs the business. So, it is imperative that logons be as quick and non-intrusive as possible. But how can we make this happen? Learn some of the best practices for Citrix Logon time optimization.

The modern IT stack has become diverse and distributed, and it’s increasingly challenging to manage heterogeneous platforms and multi-vendor devices. Customers are looking to the cloud and APM to help address these hurdles, as well as accelerate IT transformation. But migrating to the cloud will take time, it won’t make infrastructure ‘just disappear’, and legacy workloads are going to remain part of the enterprise reality for many. In addition, while APM will continue to be increasingly important, all applications are not the same and an application is still not equal to a digital business service. Watch this webinar as John Worthington, a service management expert and Director of Product Marketing for eG Innovations, continues our Shift-Left series. You can learn: • Why domain expertise is important when defining monitoring requirements • What analytics are useful from a monitoring and observability context • How end-to-end monitoring with converged application and infrastructure performance can drive ITSM and DevOps integration

In the digital age, quality of service (QOS) and user experience are the keys to competitive advantage. With the rapid adoption of hybrid clouds, assuring the performance of applications running in hybrid cloud ecosystems has become business-critical. The reality is that the explosion of new cloud-based IT services may not simplify performance management. In fact, since clouds are operating models the heterogeneous nature of hybrid and multi-cloud deployments makes performance management even more challenging. This 30-minute webinar provides a quick overview of the key steps to assure the performance of digital business services as applications are migrated to various cloud services and shows some examples of how you can retain end-to-end visibility along the way. Watch this webinar to learn: • How unified, consistent views of performance can enable effective service delivery • How to baseline services before, during and after cloud migrations • How to get started on your hybrid cloud journey

Competition in the digital services world is about managing the customer experience. The cloud is an operating model, and migrating workloads to the cloud involves much more than ‘lift & shift’. In fact, the heavy lifting of cloud migrations may be much more about people than technologies. Managing customer expectations requires that the user experience be at least as good—if not better—after a cloud migration than it was before the migration took place. Customers really don’t care about the ‘cloud’ per se, they care about the outcomes that cloud-based services can provide. Learn how you can manage customer expectations and leverage services-oriented monitoring as a program of work within a cloud migration.

This webinar highlights how next-generation application performance monitoring & analytics provides deep visibility into the Java stack to accelerate the diagnosis of application performance issues and quickly restore user experience. During the live demonstration, we will show how to: - Have a single unified monitoring solution that addresses your application monitoring, diagnosis, analytics, and reporting needs; - Use intelligent analytics to analyze and correlate performance inside the Java stack and across the tiers of your IT environment to provide unparalleled speed & ease of proactive alerting, diagnosis & analysis; - View best-in-class customizable dashboards that integrate Java application performance metrics to provide real-time role-based and domain-based views on user experience, system and service health, resource consumption, capacity and more; - Report on historical performance and trends and analyze usage patterns to right-size and optimize your IT infrastructure for maximum ROI;

This document discusses a webinar presented by eG Innovations on ensuring high-performing Microsoft .NET applications. The webinar covered full stack .NET monitoring including user experience monitoring, business transaction monitoring, .NET application monitoring, and infrastructure performance monitoring. It emphasized the importance of monitoring across the entire .NET stack from the user to infrastructure to identify performance issues and their root causes. The presentation recommended eG Enterprise as a solution to provide converged APM/IPM for unified monitoring of .NET environments.

This document discusses best practices for monitoring VMware Horizon virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments. It recommends: 1) Measuring all aspects of the user experience, including logins, application launches, and session performance, using both synthetic and real user monitoring. 2) Monitoring every layer of the Horizon infrastructure and supporting systems like Active Directory, storage, and networking to pinpoint where problems originate. 3) Correlating performance across layers to determine the root cause of issues affecting user experience.

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a leading monitoring platform for Microsoft applications. However, SCOM is limited in its support for non-Microsoft systems and applications (e.g., Citrix, SAP, Siebel, VMware, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Java, etc.). To extend SCOM for heterogeneous environments, multiple management packs are often deployed - one for each non-Microsoft platform. But the lack of integration between management packs leads to long problem identification and diagnosis cycles, resulting in poor user experience and loss in productivity. This is where eG Enterprise Microsoft SCOM Universal Management Pack comes in. View this presentation to see how to escape siloed monitoring and leverage your SCOM environment to gain real-time insight into every factor that affects your end users’ experience, across your entire infrastructure.

eG Enterprise Citrix logon simulator helps you fix XenApp & XenDesktop issues before users are affected. Proactively monitor Citrix XenApp logon slowdowns. In this presentation, you will discover how to: - Proactively monitor logon performance by simulating and testing XenApp and XenDesktop logon sessions from various locations - Identify why logon is slow and which step in the logon process takes more processing time: is it authentication, enumeration, HDX session establishment, application launch? - Test and ensure if the entire Citrix delivery infrastructure (XenApp, XenDesktop, NetScaler, StoreFront, PVS, license server, AD, etc.) is working as expected to support user logon - Leverage deep Citrix monitoring capabilities of eG Enterprise to identify real user logon issues in real time and provide speedy resolution

This document discusses Citrix's use of eG Enterprise for end-to-end monitoring of their user conferences. It provides an overview of eG Innovations and its monitoring capabilities. Citrix requires a monitoring solution that provides unified visibility across all Citrix tiers from a single console, with insights to pinpoint root causes. eG Enterprise meets these needs through its end-to-end, scalable, and proactive monitoring of Citrix infrastructure, supporting faster issue resolution. The presentation also covers new features in eG 6.3 like expanded XenApp/XenDesktop monitoring and support for technologies like Citrix Adaptive Transport and Linux VDAs.

Citrix enables secure End User Computing services across multiple platforms and devices, enabling users to do more, using more devices from more locations. However, these End User Computing services encompass and support many different technologies that vary significantly from one organization to another. Users getting access to their desktops and applications is the first step, which is why monitoring the logon performance has become critical for Citrix-based IT services. That's why eG Innovations recently announced a Free Logon Simulator for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop. But that's only a first impression. To make a lasting impact on user experience, the applications and desktops being delivered on top of the Citrix service must also perform, and these digital business services will be comprised of many different components from any number of suppliers. Discover how Citrix and eG Enterprise can combine to provide you with end-to-end performance management that can make a lasting impression your users will love.

Users expect - and demand – that the performance of their virtual applications and desktops match, if not exceed, the performance of their physical applications and desktops. So, when virtualizing Citrix applications or desktops, a great user experience is the key for success. Slow logons, session disconnects and screen freezes are just some of the performance issues that might affect user experience when virtualizing Citrix environments. To avoid these potential issues and ensure the success of Citrix-based IT transformation initiatives, IT managers must be able to monitor and manage the user experience to ensure optimal user satisfaction and productivity. View these slides from our most recent webinar where Bala Vaidhinathan, CTO of eG Innovations, discusses how you can monitor and manage the experience of your Citrix users to guarantee Citrix virtualization success

The document discusses avoiding mistakes when managing Citrix performance. It recommends looking for monitoring tools with Citrix expertise that provide end-to-end visibility across infrastructure components. Built-in Citrix tools are useful for troubleshooting but not sufficient for overall performance management. Virtual desktop monitoring differs from virtual server monitoring as it requires understanding user experience and activity within desktops. The document promotes a solution called eG Enterprise for comprehensive Citrix performance monitoring and diagnosis.