Citrix Presentation Server - Sessions - Template

ScOp3 · Last edited by ScOp3 on Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:30 am; edited 1 time in total

I am running this template for a couple of months now and thought some of you might be interested. I exported this as a host template and hope everything you need is included.

How it works:

I query a certain OID which shows the current amount of Citrix Sessions on the server. The problem is that you get the user created sessions plus a certain amount of system generated sessions. In my case there were always 3 system generated session which i was not interested in. So i created a CDEF for the sessions which deducts the amount of 3 for the current data source.

Based on the single server data i then created a cumulative graph of all citrix sessions available. The problem with the total again is the not wanted system generated sessions. Cacti is currently not able to report the amount of data sources in a function/variable which u could use for dynamic calculating the amount of session to deduct. (Hope someone could actually understand the last sentence *g*)
Anyway what i then did was create a second CDEF which deducts "Amount of data sources * 3" from the combined graph.

If those CDEF's are not included in the Host Template simply create those two according to my description above.

Have a look at the screenshots and if you can use template i am happy to help.

Greetings...

ScOp3

PS: If anyone has knowledge about other usable OID's i will add them to the template.

Phobos182 · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 1:04 pm Post subject:

I run almost the same thing, but my Terminal_Server_Sessions counter could not be trusted (It was off by a random number, not a static one like 3). Instead I scripted each Citrix Server to run a dump on there current connection statistics & program utliization to a flat text file on the Cacti Server. I then used a different program to read in the file every 5 minutes, and put it in the RRD Database for use. Works well, but entirely custom to my environment.

I used stacking on the graph so I could determine that Load Balancing was working properly on the farm.

ScOp3 · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:21 am Post subject:

Meisi · Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 1

The user count value from a citrix server (presentation 3.0) is not right, but i use this SNMP4CTX with MRTG and OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9827.1.1.1.1.0 to get the right user count.

SNMP4CTX is a Microsoft SNMP extension agent, that allows SNMP to be used to collect application statistics from Citrix WinFrame/MetaFrame/MetaFrame XP.

http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/snmp4ctx.htm

ScOp3 · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:27 pm Post subject:

padawan · Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Posts: 25

any news?