Monitoring Citrix Applications
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The Challenges of Monitoring Citrix Applications
Many organizations are migrating their enterprise-wide business applications, such as Microsoft Office, to Citrix to reduce operational costs and enhance network security. Because a Citrix deployment can "mask" the actual application traffic, obtaining application response time and performance information on Citrix applications in context with other networked applications presents daunting challenges for many IT organizations.
Providing Visibility into Citrix Application Flows
nGenius® Service Assurance Solution applies its CDM™ technology to identify and monitor Citrix® MetaFrame® Presentation Server traffic flows and Citrix-hosted applications and maps them to the powerful real-time and historical analysis views and reports available in nGenius® Performance Manager. This approach enables strategically placed NetScout Intelligent Data Sources to collect and deliver rich, actionable information on the utilization of each published Citrix application, such as those in the Microsoft® Office Suite or custom applications unique to a particular enterprise. Network professionals can then proactively manage faults, monitor individual Citrix-based applications, rapidly troubleshoot problems, and dynamically plan network bandwidth changes.
Because the nGenius Service Assurance Solution monitors each published Citrix application individually, it provides:
- Rapid recognition and tracking of Citrix traffic flows network-wide for understanding the resources consumed by this solution.
- Visibility into the applications hosted by Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Servers, pinpointing most- and least-utilized Citrix-based applications and the resulting client/server conversations.
- The ability to monitor, evaluate and alarm on passive and active response time metrics for Citrix-based applications, supplying actionable details to quickly identify and resolve performance degradations.
Real-Time application response time and performance views of Citrix traffic
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| Real-time application response time and performance views of Citrix traffic displayed simultaneously with other traffic on the same segment show the volume of overall Citrix traffic as well as applications hosted on Citrix such as Microsoft Word. |
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Enabling Products
To find out more information about NetScout’s nGenius and Sniffer products click on the appropriate links below:
- nGenius K2 Service Delivery Manager - Assures the availability and performance of business services with at-a-glance status and early warning of performance degradations of service traffic
- nGenius Performance Manager - Comprehensive software for network and application performance, service validation and optimization and planning across the modern IP network
- Sniffer® Intelligence - Focused application and voice performance analysis for the modern IP network
- nGenius InfiniStream Deep Packet Capture Appliances - Dedicated intelligent deep packet capture appliances to support service assurance and unparalleled application and network performance analysis
- nGenius Probes - Security-hardened distributed monitoring devices that collect key network metrics utilized by the nGenius Performance Management System
- nGenius Virtual Agent - Software-based intelligent data source for virtual computing environments that delivers critical visibility to traffic inside virtualized servers.
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