Monitor VDA machines and sessions agentless with SCOM

Every Citrix engineer knows it can be quite a burden to install, configure and update monitoring agent software on Citrix VDA machines, especially for the non-persistent machines as you are required to create and deploy new master images with every agent version update.

While it requires some manual actions, the SCOM platform does natively support monitoring through agentless managed devices which you can onboard with the SCOM discovery wizard. This will save you a lot of maintenance time and reduces overhead on VDA machines, which is quite crucial.

Although this is a good option for smaller environments, it is definitely not for the larger ones as the maximum amount of agentless managed devices onboarded via the SCOM discovery wizard is very limited: 60 machines for a single SCOM Management Group only.

GripMatix Agentless VDA Machine Monitoring

MetrixInsight for Citrix VAD/DaaS includes an efficient agentless SCOM resource pool based solution which automatically detects all your single- and multi session VDA machines to securely start monitoring its compute, storage, network, services and user sessions remotely using the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) protocol.
Automatically created Resource Pools monitoring VDA single and multi session machines
This way you do not have to manually maintain a list of agent, or agentless managed computer objects in SCOM for your VDA machines and create new VDA master images every time a new agent version has been released, as there is no agent to update.

But most importantly, there is no limitation on the amount of VDA machines that you want to have detected and monitored, as you can scale up the automatically created resource pools by adding pool members accordingly. Therefore, the solution is able to automatically and dynamically detect, monitor and manage 10,000s of VDA machines.

Besides monitoring essential machine and user session metrics on compute, storage, network and VDA services, it also enables you to fix certain issues with the click of a button. For example, it includes tasks to start multiple stopped VDA services, or reboot VDA machines, at once.
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Task to start multiple stopped Citrix VAD/DaaS VDA services
Imagine the Citrix HDX Teams Redirection Service on a VDA single session machine has stopped running and cannot be started by the system automatically for some reason. Users having a virtual desktop session to the respective VDA machine have degraded user experience using MS Teams. This need to be fixed as soon as possible.

MetrixInsight for Citrix VAD/DaaS ensures that, among others, these types of problems are immediately detected and solved as it aims to optimize your business availability and performance to the limits.

If you would like to learn more, please request a demo and get access to our Experience Center to see MetrixInsight for Citrix VAD/DaaS in action.
Every Citrix engineer knows it can be quite a burden to install, configure and update monitoring agent software on Citrix VDA machines, especially for the non-persistent machines as you are required to create and deploy new master images with every agent version update.

While it requires some manual actions, the SCOM platform does natively support monitoring through agentless managed devices which you can onboard with the SCOM discovery wizard. This will save you a lot of maintenance time and reduces overhead on VDA machines, which is quite crucial.

Although this is a good option for smaller environments, it is definitely not for the larger ones as the maximum amount of agentless managed devices onboarded via the SCOM discovery wizard is very limited: 60 machines for a single SCOM Management Group only.

GripMatix Agentless VDA Machine Monitoring

MetrixInsight for Citrix VAD/DaaS includes an efficient agentless SCOM resource pool based solution which automatically detects all your single- and multi session VDA machines to securely start monitoring its compute, storage, network, services and user sessions remotely using the Windows Remote Management (WinRM) protocol.
Automatically created Resource Pools monitoring VDA single and multi session machines
Automatically created Resource Pools monitoring VDA single and multi session machines
This way you do not have to maintain a list of agent, or agentless managed computer objects in SCOM for your VDA machines and create new VDA master images every time a new agent version has been released, as there is no agent to update.

But most importantly, there is no limitation on the amount of VDA machines that you want to have detected and monitored, as you can scale up the automatically created resource pools by adding pool members accordingly. Therefore, the solution is able to automatically and dynamically detect, monitor and manage 10,000s of VDA machines.

Besides monitoring essential machine and user session metrics on compute, storage, network and VDA services, it also enables you to fix certain issues with the click of a button. For example, it includes tasks to start multiple stopped VDA services, or reboot VDA machines, at once.
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Task to start multiple stopped Citrix VAD/DaaS VDA services
Imagine the Citrix HDX Teams Redirection Service on a VDA single session machine has stopped running and cannot be started by the system automatically for some reason. Users having a virtual desktop session to the respective VDA machine have degraded user experience using MS Teams. This need to be fixed as soon as possible.

MetrixInsight for Citrix VAD/DaaS ensures that, among others, these types of problems are immediately detected and solved as it aims to optimize your business availability and performance to the limits.

If you would like to learn more, please request a demo and get access to our Experience Center to see MetrixInsight for Citrix VAD/DaaS in action.

MetrixInsight for Citrix VAD/DaaS

MetrixInsight for VAD/DaaS is a CITRIX® Ready SCOM Management Pack solution for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Citrix DaaS, Citrix License Server, Citrix Provisioning Services, Citrix StoreFront and NetScaler.

It goes beyond Citrix Director and fully integrates your Citrix® Virtual Apps and Desktops, and Citrix DaaS stack into SCOM. It dynamically discovers and visualizes the entire Citrix VAD and DaaS topology using the different layers that exist in a typical End User-Computing deployment and provides comprehensive monitoring and reporting services to keep the end-user computing platform up and running and your end users happy.