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MetaFrame Presentation Server

Reviewer’s Guide

Citrix® MetaFrame® Presentation Server 3.0 for Windows®

Citrix® MetaFrame® Access Suite

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Page 1: ...MetaFrame Presentation Server Reviewer s Guide Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3 0 for Windows Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite...

Page 2: ...a trademark of the Hewlett Packard Company Java Sun and SunOS are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc in the U S and other countries Solaris is a registered trademark of Sun M...

Page 3: ...res of MetaFrame Presentation Server 22 Simplified Licensing for MetaFrame Access Suite Products 22 Enhanced Support for Large Farms 22 Zone Preference and Failover 22 Policies 23 Delegated Administra...

Page 4: ...ace 57 Exploring the User Experience 58 Running Published Applications Through a Web Browser 58 Running Published Applications from a Client Desktop 59 Workspace Control 59 Printing to Client Printers...

Page 5: ...r Assignments 82 Monitoring Server Loads 82 Chapter 6 Using Resource Manager Report Center 84 Report Types 84 Real Time Monitoring Capabilities 85 Delegated Administration 85 Identifying Status Icons...

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Page 7: ...presentation server for centrally managing heterogeneous applications and delivering their functionality as a service to workers wherever they may be MetaFrame Presentation Server is certified to run...

Page 8: ...acquisition or expansion Enable fail over systems for business continuity during an emergency or planned outage Utilizing the MetaFrame Presentation Server organizations can Access any application on...

Page 9: ...ation services Presentation and conferencing services User provisioning measurement and system management services Previously customers had to purchase these technologies separately and piece them tog...

Page 10: ...l information resources including applications data sources documents and Web content and services With a powerful set of easy to use wizard driven configuration tools IT administrators can enable bro...

Page 11: ...ty and application availability for growing organizations The Advanced Edition is the ideal access infrastructure solution for small to medium sized organizations who need to effectively manage and de...

Page 12: ...guration Tool ICA Client Distribution Wizard ICA Client Printer Configuration Tool ICA Client Update Configuration Tool Shadow Toolbar SpeedScreen Latency Reduction Manager MetaFrame Presentation Serv...

Page 13: ...rce planning applications such as SAP and Peoplesoft or any other custom applications You can group a number of servers together to form a server farm A server farm is a group of computers you manage...

Page 14: ...ers the ability to customize many of these options Program Neighborhood Console is available from servers running the Web Interface Web Interface Console Use the Web Interface Console to monitor MetaF...

Page 15: ...inistration Toolbar The ICA Administration Toolbar provides easy desktop access to the following administration and management tools ICA Client Update Configuration Tool Shadow Taskbar Citrix Connecti...

Page 16: ...utility to Add network asynchronous and other types of connections Configure existing connections Set parameters for mapping client devices Set modem parameters Test modem configurations SpeedScreen L...

Page 17: ...Server Clients Citrix uses the Independent Computing Architecture ICA protocol to exchange information between a user s client device and the published resources on the computer running MetaFrame Pres...

Page 18: ...ta stream and message integrity checks and enables you to securely deliver applications within a LAN or across the Internet Program Neighborhood With the client Program Neighborhood users can connect...

Page 19: ...gram Neighborhood Agent is designed for flexibility and ease of configuration Web Client The Web Interface technology which allows interactive applications to be published to users through a Web site...

Page 20: ...ters The Secure Gateway transparently encrypts and authenticates all user connections to protect against data tampering and theft Install the Secure Gateway in a network s demilitarized zone DMZ to fo...

Page 21: ...er This capability eases the administrative burden of installing and uninstalling applications on servers in large server farms With the click of a mouse administrators can replicate applications acro...

Page 22: ...ehavior reduces traffic among zones when users connect to applications especially in large farms where zones are connected across high latency links In earlier releases a data collector automatically...

Page 23: ...ted Administration With delegated administration you can restrict an administrator s permissions to perform certain tasks to select servers and applications For example you can 1 Create two separate s...

Page 24: ...ontent freeing up server CPU utilization Network Bandwidth Multimedia content is passed over the network in compressed form reducing bandwidth consumption SpeedScreen Flash Acceleration SpeedScreen Fl...

Page 25: ...ntation Server Client for 32 bit Windows Workspace Control Workspace Control enables users to quickly switch between client devices and is especially useful to roaming or mobile users You now have the...

Page 26: ...tions whose policies prohibit user monitoring Client time zone support In today s distributed enterprises users may be accessing MetaFrame Presentation Server from around the world These applications...

Page 27: ...can ensure that CPU intensive applications in the server farm do not degrade performance of other applications You can give a higher CPU priority to mission critical published applications and a lowe...

Page 28: ...supported clients and the Web Interface to provide secure access to applications and data Using smart cards simplifies the authentication process while enhancing logon security MetaFrame Presentation...

Page 29: ...ve among documents as often as you need using the links to other guides and the links to the Document Center You can access the Document Center from your product CD ROM or install it on your servers T...

Page 30: ...rame Presentation Server user interface integrated on screen assistance is available to help you complete tasks For example in the Access Suite Console you can position your mouse over a setting to di...

Page 31: ...d test programs for software and hardware vendors system integrators ICA licensees and corporate IT developers who incorporate Citrix computing solutions into their products Most of the operations tha...

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Page 33: ...ame Presentation Server for Windows and its clients Specifically this chapter addresses Requirements for Performing this Review Licensing Evaluation Versions of Citrix Products Installing MetaFrame Pr...

Page 34: ...ne of the following hardware and software combinations Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2000 Advanced Server Pentium compatible processor 166 MHz 256 MB RAM 2 GB hard disk with at least 1 25 G...

Page 35: ...ame Presentation Server use Manage Your Server to add to your server the Server Role Terminal server Microsoft Net Framework Version 1 1 or later Visual J Net Version 1 1 or later and Java Runtime Env...

Page 36: ...g MetaFrame Access Suite License Server and License Management Console MetaFrame Access Suite Console MetaFrame Presentation Server and Presentation Server Console Web Interface Program Neighborhood A...

Page 37: ...e Presentation Server requires the installation of MetaFrame Access Suite License Server To install the license server and MetaFrame Presentation Server components use the Server CD in your MetaFrame...

Page 38: ...evaluation licenses Obtaining and Installing an Evaluation License After you successfully install the license server and the License Management Console obtain your evaluation licenses from Citrix Bef...

Page 39: ...n Server Enterprise Edition Select MetaFrame Presentation Server and type 10 For Hostname of your Citrix License Server type the name of your computer Click Allocate 6 On the Confirm your Selection pa...

Page 40: ...n the Upload License File page click Browse choose the license file you downloaded then click Open 5 On the Upload License File page click Upload 6 Click Current Usage and observe that you have instal...

Page 41: ...esentation Server provides a single point of control including the ability to publish applications from multiple server farms to a single Web page The MetaFrame installer installs the Web Interface on...

Page 42: ...uisites Installation Select Components Warning screen After performing the initial prerequisites installations selecting components and dismissing warnings you install the Web Interface To install the...

Page 43: ...g box choose Yes then click Next 4 On the Create or Join a Server Farm verify selection of Create a new farm and click Next In the Farm name field type DemoFarm and click Next then on the In Assign Fa...

Page 44: ...MetaFrame Presentation Server 3 0 Setup dialog box click Next 2 On License Agreement dialog box select I accept the license agreement then click Next 3 On the Ready to Install the Application dialog...

Page 45: ...ve spelling of the name of your primary server and its domain 4 Close all applications The next set of instructions involve running the MetaFrame installer on your secondary server in order to add it...

Page 46: ...will be unavailable Management Console Installation Manager Program Neighborhood Program Neighborhood Agent WMI Providers Then click Next 3 On the Create or Join a Server Farm dialog box choose Join a...

Page 47: ...the Users group now Deselect Add Anonymous users also Click Next 8 On the Review Your Selections dialog box verify information then click Finish Finish your installation by completing the steps that f...

Page 48: ...accept the license agreement then click Next 3 On the Select Client dialog box pull down the Program Neighborhood menu choose Entire feature will be unavailable then click Next 4 On the Server Address...

Page 49: ...Components 49 The next chapter describes how to Use the MetaFrame Presentation Server Management Console to publish applications Use the Web Interface and Program Neighborhood Agent to access publishe...

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Page 51: ...esentation Server It contains the following information Using the management console Publishing applications and content Creating application Web sites with the Web Interface Running published applica...

Page 52: ...n Server from the Start menu choose All Programs Citrix Management Consoles Presentation Server Console 2 In Log On to Server Farm enter your domain user name password and domain for the farm administ...

Page 53: ...ponents of a server farm The object at the top of the tree represents the server farm The next level of objects under the server farm represents management features and components in the server farm c...

Page 54: ...to run the console from the server on which you installed the applications To publish Notepad from your primary server 1 From the console under DemoFarm select Applications and from the Actions menu...

Page 55: ...from the Actions menu choose New Published Application 2 In Publish Application for Display Name type Calculator2 then click Next 3 In Specify What to Publish Under Application Type choose Application...

Page 56: ...es You can configure MetaFrame Presentation Server to allow users to open published content in local player or viewer applications running on client devices or in published applications To publish the...

Page 57: ...3 In the left pane under Server Settings click Manage Farms 4 In Manage MetaFrame Server Farms For Farm Name type DemoFarm and click Add Select Farm1 click Delete then click Save You can now use the W...

Page 58: ...to open the URL to your primary server which runs the Web Interface The URL to your primary server has the following form http servername where servername is the name of your primary server in DemoFa...

Page 59: ...lator are available This is called Workspace Control and is a feature that is new with MetaFrame Presentation Server Workspace Control provides users with the ability to quickly disconnect from all ru...

Page 60: ...management of your users client sessions You can use the console to Monitor client sessions viewed by server or published application Send messages to users in active sessions Reset or disconnect ses...

Page 61: ...ou import network print servers into the server farm to make the shared printers available to all users when they connect to servers in the farm If some client printer drivers are not compatible with...

Page 62: ...use the client printer setting Keep printed documents on auto created client printers The setting determines if printed jobs are saved after users log off from ICA sessions Saving printed jobs can us...

Page 63: ...ent administrator s guide for each client platform Client administrator s guides are available from the Document Center To change the connection configuration 1 Launch Citrix Connection Configuration...

Page 64: ...a stream spools the print job and redirects the job to the ICA client The client printer renders the print data stream again using a PCL4 PCL5c or a PS interpreter The client device s local printer dr...

Page 65: ...es These files can cause unacceptable delays when print jobs are spooled from the server to the client over a WAN or other slow connection Many printer drivers are not well tested in a terminal server...

Page 66: ...rom saving sensitive files on their local client drives Creating a Policy In the following procedure the example assumes that you want to create a policy for your Sales user group that allows them to...

Page 67: ...he Shadow policy and configured its rules assign the policy to connections that you want to be able to shadow Assigning a Policy To assign the shadowing policy to connections 1 In the right pane right...

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Page 71: ...Components This chapter introduces the MetaFrame Access Suite Console and describes Configuring Access Suite Console for the First Time Accessing Farm Information Accessing Access Suite License Serve...

Page 72: ...Suite products run the discovery process To run discovery 1 On your primary server open the MetaFrame Access Suite Console by choosing Start All Programs Citrix Access Suite Console 2 In the left pane...

Page 73: ...our zone Note that Data Collector is part of the information displayed about the zone The data collector is the database that stores dynamic information about a zone In addition to monitoring a server...

Page 74: ...ction Using the License Management Console The License Management Console lets you manage and monitor your Citrix licenses by providing a user interface to the license server You can download licenses...

Page 75: ...or Netscape 4 7 and greater To access the License Management Console navigate to the server on which the License Management Console is running To open the License Management Console on your primary s...

Page 76: ...an alert All three types of alerts let you set both warning and critical alert levels In the case of Subscription Advantage and expiration date alerts the levels indicate the number of days remaining...

Page 77: ...permissions on an account by account basis After you create a user account you can set user permissions for the four major areas of the console current usage historical reporting configuration and use...

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Page 79: ...ects to a published application that is load balanced with Load Manager Load Manager identifies the server with the lightest load for that application The user is not aware of load balancing load calc...

Page 80: ...ors to perform customized load management tasks and then attach them to servers You can create as many load evaluators as you need for optimum server or published application performance However each...

Page 81: ...ort load replace 100 with 1 6 For Application choose Notepad1 7 In Assigned Rules choose CPU Utilization 8 For report load replace 90 with 70 9 In Assigned Rules choose Memory Usage 10 For report load...

Page 82: ...checks recent loads using a graph format The evaluator loads continuously change based on the rules you set in your load evaluators and the level of load activity Important To view the server loads c...

Page 83: ...sure optimum application availability and performance for users This section contains the following information about Resource Manager Understanding the Report Center Delegated administration Identify...

Page 84: ...Center contains several report types for example Application Availability report Lists the published applications in a farm and the percentage of time when they were available in a planned down state...

Page 85: ...ith your servers or applications as soon as possible Note that these servers must be running the MetaFrame Presentation Server Provider for Microsoft Windows Management Instrumentation For more inform...

Page 86: ...status of each alarm condition by sampling the statistics associated with the monitored condition every 15 seconds and the colored Status Icons change accordingly Represents normal operation where the...

Page 87: ...servers in your system is not visible you can monitor any problems that occur by displaying the Resource Manager Watcher tab To display the Resource Manager Watcher tab 1 Select Resource Manager in th...

Page 88: ...y Specifying the thresholds for each alarm type using the Yellow Limit and Red Limit columns Specifying the time period beyond which a limit must be exceeded to trigger an alarm using the Yellow Time...

Page 89: ...ase by writing data to the database and reading data from it It should be relatively low load for best performance Creating Reports Resource Manager enables you to produce a variety of reports based o...

Page 90: ...rce Manager then click the Reports tab Looking Back to a Specific Time If there is a problem on a particular server you can produce a report of its status generated for a 15 second period at the time...

Page 91: ...5 When you are finished click Cancel Reporting User Activity You can use Resource Manager to provide information about how users at your site use applications and servers To display a user s analysis...

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Page 93: ...dvantage of the significant return on investment ROI and e Business enabling benefits of Citrix load management system monitoring and analysis application packaging and delivery and integrated network...

Page 94: ...sentation Server Resource Manager Network Manager Installation Manager Web Interface Secure Gateway and Document Center run on Windows Server 2003 Will MetaFrame Presentation Server work with members...

Page 95: ...ncryption level Is MetaFrame Presentation Server 3 0 available for import into all countries where Citrix does business Restrictions on importing strong encryption technology 128 bit encryption or gre...

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