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Real-Time Monitoring Capabilities
The Dashboard on the Access Suite Console allows you to display performance
metrics for the servers in a farm in a highly visual way.
You can create custom views of farms, zones, servers, and applications by using the
My Views feature. My Views allows you to create and save customized views of
items in your deployment. You can then see updated information about those items
at any time, without having to search for them. For example, you can group related
objects in folders or you can order farms, according to the frequency with which
you need to access them.
You may want to monitor farms located in different locations. In this case, you
could use the My Views feature to create a custom view that groups each farm in a
different part of the screen and then use a background graphic to identify each
location. A suitable performance metric, such as CPU Load, displayed in your
custom view, allows you to pinpoint problems quickly on any server in any
location.
Using custom views in this way helps you anticipate or identify problems with 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 information about the Access Suite Console, see “Using MetaFrame
Access Suite Components” on page 71.
Delegated Administration
Enhanced delegated administration in Resource Manager allows you to delegate the
tasks of controlling applications and analyzing system and application data to
custom administrators. For more information on Enhanced Delegated
Administration, see the
MetaFrame Presentation Server Administrator’s Guide .
To simplify the configuration of custom administrators, full administrators may find
it easier to first create a suitable folder hierarchy, and then create custom
administrators with the necessary permissions. You create custom administrators
using the Add MetaFrame Administrator wizard in the Presentation Server
Console.
For Resource Manager you can:
• Delegate the control of Resource Manager applications to custom
administrators. A Resource Manager application is an application that is not a
MetaFrame Presentation Server published application but is still recognized
by the Resource Manager system. Details of how to set up Resource Manager
applications are provided in the Help.