Have you ever tried to backup netscaler configuration and restore? Luckily, Citrix gave us the opportunity to create basic and full backups on netscaler. We can create backups for the software configuration on the netscaler and restore it when needed.
In GUI, Goto Netscaler/System/Backup and Restore option. Enter a name for your backup and select full backup and download the tgz file to your machine. That’s it. You just created a full backup file for your netscaler.
On a weekend or on a non busy day in your environment, you might see netscaler displaying high cpu (more than 80%) on the hypervisor. If your hypervisor team reports this to you, dont worry. Nothing is wrong.
The NetScaler packet processing engine is always “looking for work”, even when there is no work to be done. Therefore, it will do everything it can to take control of the CPU and not release it.
In today’s article, I’d like to share an issue that I’ve faced recently in our Citrix environment.
Issue: Users enter their credentials at NetScaler gateway portal and click LogIn. It doesn’t go to the next page where users see applications and desktops. It spins on the same page for more than 3 minutes, and then users see their applications and desktops. When clicked, applications and desktops work normally without any delay.
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Did you start your job as you did not have a choice and not of interest? Are you thinking about changing your career than you are working now? If your answer is yes, then read on…
Before we get started, let us remind the quote from Confucius:
Source: quotefancy.com Changing from one technology to another might look difficult, but it is easy once you know the steps.
Following 2 GPOs should be configured for licensing server and license type for RDS.
Apply policy: Computer configuration>Windows component>Remote Desktop Services>Remote Desktop Session host>Licensing
1. Use the specified Remote Desktop License Server
2. Set the remote Desktop Licensing mode
Also, perform below steps to configure RDSH server:
Install Remote Desktop Licensing1) In Server Manager, open the Manage menu and click Add Roles and Features.
2) Click Next until you get to the Server Roles page.
So far you might have used external Git providers like GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, etc… or Git software programs like Gitea or Gogs, etc… as your version control systems. But do you know you can also set up a Git Server locally on your PC?
Started thinking about it already? Let me show you how.
Prerequisites Two PCs with Git software installed. This tutorial uses two Windows PCs for the same.
You might want to test a new Windows OS version before you deploy it on your laptop/desktop. You have software programs like VMware workstation or VirtualBox to create a VM, deploy a VM in it and test the look and feel of the OS. I’ve recently tried to install Windows 10 OS and ended up with the below error:
Installer disc image file Win10 error You will get this error when you add the Windows 10 ISO file in CD drive while creating VM.
Issue:
User clicks on an app in netscaler gateway portal. It shows cannot start app APPNAME for all the apps in the netscaler gateway portal.
Troubleshooting:
Citrix DDC event viwer shows
The citrix broker service failed to broker a connection for user DOMAIN\USERID to resource APPNAME. The virtual machine VDI1.company.com rejected a request to prepare itself for a connection. This problem usually indicates that the VM is engaged in an activity such as restarting, entering a suspended state or processing a recent disconnection or logoff.
During a high availability file synchronization operation, a set of files are copied from the primary appliance to the secondary appliance. The high availability setup is synchronized automatically at an interval of one minute or when you manually run the sync ha files command. The secondary appliance initiates the high availability synchronization.
The rsync process completes the high availability file synchronization and the nsfsyncd process controls the synchronization. The rsync process uses an SSH tunnel for file synchronization, but the default SSH port 22 can be updated when running the rsync process.
High availability synchronization is the process by which configurations are kept identical between the appliances. It is not the process that runs individual commands on the secondary appliance after successful completion on the primary appliance, that is called Command Propagation and while the two are similar in function, they perform different functions.
High availability synchronization is used as a failsafe method of keeping configurations between the appliances synchronized whether the command propagation is successful or not.
