Freebee time again!, Till the end of the year Gourami gives away Farm Monitor!, All you need to do is register.

Inspired by the wishes of actual Citrix consultants who work in the field!, Farm Monitor is designed to keep an eye on all vital Citrix components like:

-Data store

-Data Collector(s)

-License servers

-Every Citrix/XenApp server

-Running services, like the IMA services

Because Citrix relies on many Microsoft components like active directory and file shares, Farm Monitor also keeps an eye on:

-File shares, profiles/home folders

-Active directory

The dashboard overview allows you to see in an instance what’s wrong with your Citrix farm.

Be the first to know when one of your Citrix XenApp servers crashes, this enables system administrators to recognize trends and act swiftly. Prevent outage of your XenApp servers during business hours. 

Download, register here.

For those not familiar with FASe, a short introduction: FASe stands for Farm Administration Suite, and contains many tools which are a bless for Citrix XenApp/Presentation Server Administrators. These tools are included with FASe:

-Published Applications Utility: bulk edit published applications

-Farm Documentor: automatically make a network diagram of your Citrix environment

-Farm Reporter: make a full HTML report of nearly every setting in your datastore

-Policy tools: export/import your Citrix policies

-TSPE: bulk modify terminal server settings in AD user accounts

-Farm Monitor: sends out mail when one of your XenApp servers has crashed

-Farm Cleaner: cleans profiles, temp and spool folders in your farm

New in this release is:

-Farm Cleaner

-Windows Server 2008 compatibility

-XenApp 5.0 Compatibility

Updated in this release is:

-Farm Documentor: Visio is optional not mandatory

-Farm Monitor: many enhancements, improved GUI

-Farm reporter: many bug fixes

Upgrade instructions can be found on the forum.

Online help can be found here.

Download version 1.2 of FASe here.

The Antwerp Citrix IForum, which is the successor of the Citrix Solutions conference was a great success again. Despite the lack of such conference last year, many people came. This year the Golden Earring performed again. According to Citrix Benelux director of marketing Ed Bezooijen this was biggest Citrix Benelux event ever!

At the end of the conference many people took the wrong exit and ended up in the Antwerp zoo!

http://www.citrixiforumbenelux.com/

It took nearly 10.000 lines of fresh code, months of testing, Gourami has brought out, what we think is,  our best product till now: Farm Commander

Every systems administrator out there know this type of job: Replace the file: 'c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts'  .... on every server! Depending on your typing skills and the amount of servers, this dull repetitive job could take up to hours. With Farm Commander, such a job can be done within minutes. Farm Commander also allows you to collect files from several servers at once. Running a command on every server in your domain was never this easy!

Learn mode about Farm Commander!