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- How Slow is Slow? - Without a point of reference for comparison—a watched and ticking timer or a head-to-head race—most people won’t notice less than 33% difference in the time to complete a familiar task. A typical observer—one not actually timing things—faced with an hour-long task that completed in 40 minutes will think “hey, that seemed fast.” The same observer, … Continue reading "How Slow is Slow?"
StoreFront Service Status by Splunk Query - Use Splunk to Query StoreFront Service Status Here are the Splunk Queries I use to find StoreFront Services in the XenDesktop environment. They are specific to each StoreFront service. The last SPL query will pull on the StoreFront services from hosts that you specify. Please let me know what you think and if they help in your … Continue reading "StoreFront Service Status by Splunk Query"- XenDesktop Error Visualization in Splunk - Citrix XenDesktop Errors Visualized with Splunk Here are the Splunk Queries I use when I need to create Splunk timechart dashboards to visualize Citrix XenDesktop errors. Try them out and let me know how they work in your environment. This SPL Query grabs all Citrix related errors: All Citrix Errors index=”wineventlog” sourcetype=”WinEventLog:Application” SourceName=”Citrix*” error | … Continue reading "XenDesktop Error Visualization in Splunk"
- Create UEFI Bootable USB Flash Drive - UEFI Bootable Flash Drive Issues I finally purchased a new laptop and of course it came with Windows Home pre-installed. I want to test out Windows Enterprise so I need to make a bootable USB flash drive with the Windows 10 Enterprise on it. I’ve used RUFUS for years to create bootable USB flash drives … Continue reading "Create UEFI Bootable USB Flash Drive"
- Splunk StoreFront Dashboard - Need to create a StoreFront Dashboard in Splunk? Here is a quick SPL query you can run to gather some basic information on that state of the Citrix XenDesktop services that are running in your environment. If you want to narrow it down to your StoreFront hosts just replace the asterisk in the “host=”*”” with … Continue reading "Splunk StoreFront Dashboard"
- Splunk REGEX for WinEventLog TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager - Splunk REGEX for RDP Session Logs Ever want to get info on Terminal Services Local Session Manager Operations logs on your Windows servers to see who attempts to RDP into your Windows servers? Well here is a Splunk REGEX Field Extraction to get the RDP session info since Splunk was not able to figure out … Continue reading "Splunk REGEX for WinEventLog TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager"
- Splunk Query for Xen Desktop Services - If you have Citrix Xen Desktop in your environment and want to check on which server they are installed and their state use these Splunk queries. It is helpful so that you don’t have to keep an active list of the Xen Desktop servers. You could keep the list of Xen Desktop servers in a … Continue reading "Splunk Query for Xen Desktop Services"
- PowerShell Commands to Install Hyper-V - Install Hyper-V using Windows PowerShell install-windowsfeature –name hyper-v -includemanagementtools –restart Install Hyper-V using DISM.exe, run the following command from an elevated command prompt: dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:microsoft-hyper-v Install the management tools with Windows PowerShell, you use the Install-Windows-Feature cmdlet, as follows: install-windowsfeature -name rsat-hyper-v-tools Install just the Hyper-V Manager or just the Hyper-V PowerShell … Continue reading "PowerShell Commands to Install Hyper-V"
- NetScaler Traffic Management Features - Here are the traffic management features of the Citrix NetScaler: Cache Redirection NetScaler Traffic Managaement analyzes incoming requests and forwards the requests for already cached data to cache servers. Dynamic HTTP requests and non-cacheable requests are forwarded to the origin servers. Content Switching Analyzes client requests and redirects the requests to specific servers on the … Continue reading "NetScaler Traffic Management Features"
- Citrix PVS Boot Time Splunk Query - Ever wonder how to get the boot time that Citrix XenDesktop PVS puts in the Windows Application Event Log in a format that you can calculate in Splunk? I have my Windows Event Logs dumped into index=wineventlog with a sourcetype=WinEventLog:Application. When looking for the PVS bootime you need search for SourceName=StreamProcess. That will give you … Continue reading "Citrix PVS Boot Time Splunk Query"
