NetIQ | An Attachmate Business

AppManager for Microsoft Terminal Server and MetaFrame

AppManager for Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition and Citrix MetaFrame (AppManager for Terminal Server and MetaFrame) expands NetIQ's AppManager Suite (AppManager), the industry's leading solution for managing, diagnosing and analyzing the performance and availability of Windows- and UNIX-based systems, applications and server infrastructures. AppManager for Terminal Server and MetaFrame enables you to optimize Terminal Server and MetaFrame performance and maximize availability through automated event detection and correction.

Key Benefits

  • Supplies performance reporting.  Manages Terminal Server and MetaFrame well beyond statistics provided by standard PerfMon counters and stores performance data directly to a SQL Server database, making long-term trend analysis easy.
    • AppManager for Microsoft Terminal Server and MetaFrame
  • Provides proactive event management.  Delivers robust fault management by proactively detecting potential problems that can impact the availability of your Terminal Server environment.
  • Allows for easy automation.  Lets you easily set up event-driven actions—such as sending email or pager alerts, generating SNMP traps to a network manager or running a corrective fix program—to automatically execute when specific events occur.
  • Decreases costs.  Lowers support costs by enabling you to view the health and status of your distributed Terminal Server and MetaFrame environments from a central location and provides prepackaged business rules, known as Knowledge Scripts, for managing your environment.

Managing Functions

Here are some of the out-of-the-box management functions provided by AppManager for Terminal Server and MetaFrame:

  • Monitors the CPU usage of the MetaFrame IBROWSER.
  • Scans the Windows NT Application event log for entries created by MetaFrame.
  • Monitors the percentage of user licenses currently available to the ICA Browser Service.
  • Monitors the memory usage of the MetaFrame IBROWSER.
  • Displays information about users logged on to Terminal Server.
  • Displays CPU usage of all processes and identifies the top consumers.
  • Identifies top users of CPU resources.
  • Tracks memory usage of all users and identifies the top consumers.
  • Returns information about terminal sessions and terminates sessions.
  • Resets session subsystem hardware and software to known initial values.
  • Sends messages to users on Terminal Server sessions.
  • Lists number of active sessions and inactive sessions.
  • Monitors total number of bytes per session and total number of errors of all types per session.
  • Retrieves total number of frame (packets) transmitted per session.
  • Monitors overall hit ratio of all protocol objects per session.
 Search