Foglight for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 5.8.3

XenDesktop® facilitates delivery of application components to end users on demand. Foglight™ for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp allows you to monitor the over utilization of resources associated with XenDesktop users. The information appearing in the XenDesktop User Quick View can help you discover potential resource-level issues that can be caused by higher than usual CPU or memory usage, or increasing latency and session rates, and to reallocate resources where they are most needed.

Figure 45. XenDesktop Users Quick View

To explore Users:

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

On the XenDesktop Environment dashboard, on the Monitoring tab, click the Users tile.

In the XenDesktop Users Quick View, in the Users view on the left, click All Users.

The XenDesktop Users Quick View refreshes, showing the Summary - All Users view on the right.

This view identifies the applications with the highest number of instances, and the highest CPU and memory utilization, and session latency. For more information, see Identifying top consumers.

In the XenDesktop Users Quick View, in the Users view on the left, click a user node.

The XenDesktop Users Quick View refreshes, showing the Summary - User view on the right.

This view displays a summary about XenDesktop objects associated with the selected user and shows the levels of CPU and memory utilization associated with desktops and applications. For more information, see Investigating the levels of resource consumption.

If you want to view the relationship of the selected User object with other components in your integrated environment, in the top-right corner, click View Dependency.

The display area refreshes, showing a dependency map.

The map illustrates how the selected User object relates to other components in your monitored environment. For more information, see Viewing object dependencies.


	TIP: To return to the XenDesktop Environment dashboard, use the bread crumb trail in the top-left corner.

Identifying top consumers

Your monitored XenDesktop environment delivers applications to end users on demand. The Summary - All Users view identifies the users with the highest applications and desktop usage, longest logon times, and highest network latencies. This view appears in the Quick View when you select All Users in the Users view on the left. Use it to look for potential bottlenecks in your system in order to prevent potential service disruptions by reallocating system resources where they are most needed.

Figure 46. Summary - All Users view

Table 21. Summary - All Users view
Top Application Consumers	The users running the most application instances over the selected time range.
Top Desktop Consumers	The users running the most desktop instances over the selected time range.
Top Session Logon Duration	The users running the sessions with the longest logon duration over the selected time range.
Top Session Network Latency	The users running the sessions with the highest network latency, over the selected time range.

Investigating the levels of resource consumption

Your monitored XenDesktop® environment delivers virtual desktops and applications are delivered to end users on demand. You can review the levels of CPU and memory resources consumed by these elements, along with session-related metrics in the Summary - User view. Use it to identify the applications and desktops that consume the highest amounts of CPU and memory resources, and to look more closely at session latency and transfer rates. An application or desktop with consistently low CPU or memory utilization rates, for example, often calls for re-allocating these under used resources where they are more needed.

Figure 47. Summary - User view

Table 22. Summary - User view
Related Items	The objects that are associated with the selected user object and their alarm state. Figure 48. Related Items view
Top App CPU Consumers	The application instances associated with the selected user that are consuming the highest amounts of CPU resources, over the selected time range. Figure 49. Top App CPU Consumers view
Top App Memory Consumers	The application instances associated with the selected user that are consuming the highest amounts of memory resources, over the selected time range. Figure 50. Top App Memory Consumers view
Top Session Latency	The sessions initiated by the selected user that have the highest latency, over the selected time range. Figure 51. Top Session Latency view
Top Desktop CPU Consumers	The desktop instances associated with the selected user that are consuming the highest amounts of CPU resources, over the selected time range.
Top Desktop Memory Consumers	The desktop instances associated with the selected user that are consuming the highest amounts of memory resources, over the selected time range.
Top Session Transfer Rate	The sessions initiated by the selected user that have the highest network transfer rates, over the selected time range.
Sessions	General information about the sessions initiated by the selected user, such as the session type, client name, desktop name, additional session details, resource utilization, and latency.

Monitoring Delivery Groups

A Delivery Group specifies which users can access desktops or applications based on their user type. You can monitor the performance of Delivery Groups when you select the Delivery Groups tile on the XenDesktop Environment dashboard. The information appearing in the XenDesktop DeliveryGroup Quick View can help you discover sources of performance degradation such as high number of sessions or machine failures, and to reallocate resources where they are most needed.

Figure 52. XenDesktop DeliveryGroup Quick View