How to discover XenDesktop sites (4370489)

How to discover XenDesktop sites

A XenDesktop® environment contains one or more License Servers and delivery Controllers, and can be associated with a vCenter® server. Given a XenDesktop domain and host names, the XenDesktop Discovery Wizard allows you to locate these components and to create monitoring agents.
 
This results in two or more agent instances: a XenDesktop Agent (to monitor the XenDesktop server), one or more VMware Performance agents (to monitor the associated vCenters), and one or more Windows® or UNIX® agents (available with Foglight™ for Infrastructure, to monitor OS-level resources).
 

To start monitoring XenDesktop servers:

1 Log in to the Foglight browser interface.

2 On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click XenDesktop.

3 Open the Administration tab

4 Under Tasks, click Discover XenDesktop Infrastructure to launch the XenDesktop Discovery Wizard.

The XenDesktop Discovery Wizard appears, showing the Prepare page. The page lists one or more hosts that are running Agent Manager instances

5 Review the information on the Prepare page
 

• If you want to configure WinRM or DCOM settings automatically, click one of the following links to download the appropriate script:
  • Script for WinRM setting
  • Script for DCom setting
  • Script for WinRM GPO setting
• If you want to configure these settings manually, see the Agent Manager Guide for guidelines.

When done, click Next

6. On the Select Agent Host page, select the running Agent Manager that you want to manage the monitoring agent that you are about to create, and click Next

7 On the Discovery Configuration page, provide the following information needed to connect to the XenDesktop environment:

• Agent Name: Specify the name of the XenDesktop agent. If you want to specify a different name than the default name already provided (for example, XenDesktop 1), type it in this box.
• Domain: Type the name of the domain to which the XenDesktop host belongs. ▪ Delivery Controller: Type the name of the XenDesktop host. This value must include a fully qualified domain name.
• Storefront Servers (Optional): Type a comma-separated list containing the names of StoreFront servers that provide access to desktops and applications. This step is optional.
• User Name: Type the user name of the XenDesktop Delivery Controller login domain account (or the XenDesktop management account).
• Password: Type the password associated with the above user name.
• Collect Process Performance Metrics: Select this check box if you want the XenDesktop agent to collect virtual machine process metrics from the host.
• Collect Session metrics when NetScaler data not available: Select this check box if you want the XenDesktop agent to collect session metrics when NetScaler data is not available. If you select this option and NetScaler data becomes available, the NetScaler data is displayed.
• XenDesktop Lockbox Password: Type the password of the XenDesktop lockbox. This box only appears if your XenDesktop lockbox is protected with a password. This lockbox stores your XenDesktop credentials. For more information about credentials, see the Administration and Configuration Help.

When done, click Next.

8. On the All Inventories page, select one or more hosts that you want to monitor, and click Next.

9. On the Discovery VMware Agent page, the top table shows the vCenters that are not currently monitored. For each vCenter in that table, click the Configure Agent column to set up a VMware Performance agent for the vCenter.

The bottom table shows the monitored vCenters.

You can choose to set up your VMware Performance agents in this step, or later on using the VMware Performance Agent tab on the Administration tab of the XenDesktop Environment dashboard.

When done, click Finish.

The XenDesktop Discovery Wizard closes.

10. (Optional) Enable the IP mapping for the controller server, to set up the connection between storefront and delivery controller.