eG Administration

Manager Discovery - Citrix XenServer The eG manager is capable of automatically discovering the Citrix XenApp servers and Citrix XenServer VDI via the Citrix XenServer. To start discovery, select the Virtual Platforms option from the Settings node of the Discovery tree. Then, choose the Citrix XenServers option from the Choose a virtual platform to discover drop down. The procedure for discovery has been detailed below: First, you need to configure the Citrix XenServer with which the eG manager should connect for automatically discovering the servers that require monitoring. click on the Add new Citrix XenServer option from the What action would you like to perform? dropdown. In the right panel, a Citrix XenServer Preferences section appears. To add, specify the following in this section: Citrix XenServer identity (IP or Host name): Specify the IP address/host name of any server in a XenServer pool. eG Enterprise can connect to a member server or the master server in a pool for discovery. If the IP/host name of a master server is provided here, then eG Enterprise discovers the details of other servers in the pool directly from the master. On the other hand, if the IP/host name of a member server is specified, then eG Enterprise connects to that member server to figure out which is the master server in the pool. Once the master server is identified, eG Enterprise connects to the master to discover the details of the other XenServers in the pool. Use SSL to Connect to Citrix XenServer: Set this flag to Yes if the Citrix XenServer in your environment is SSL-enabled. Otherwise, set this flag to No. Web Port: If the Citrix XenServer is SSL-enabled, then 443 will be displayed here by default. On the other hand, if the Citrix XenServer is not SSL-enabled, the default Web Port will be 80. If the Citrix XenServer in the pool listens on a different SSL or non-SSL port, then make corresponding changes to the default setting. Discover Citrix XenServers: If you want to discover the Citrix XenApp servers and Citrix XenServer VDI in your environment using this Citrix XenServer, set this flag to Yes. If you only want to use this Citrix XenServer to obtain the outside view of VMs, set this flag to No. Username to connect to Citrix XenServer, Password for the user and Confirm password for the user: In order to perform the discovery/monitoring, the eG manager should connect to the Citrix XenServer as a user. Provide the credentials of this user in the Username to connect to Citrix XenServer and Password for the user text boxes. Confirm this password by retyping it in the Confirm password for the user text box. Upon clicking the Update button, a message box requesting your confirmation to proceed with the discovery will then appear. Click the Yes button in the message box to trigger the discovery. Clicking the No button will save the details of the Citrix XenServer, but will not start the discovery. In this case, you can use the Citrix XenServer configuration so saved to perform discovery at a later point in time. This way, you can add the details of multiple Citrix XenServers to the eG Enterprise system. To view the details of all the Citrix XenServers that are added, select the View configured Citrix XenServers from What action would you like to perform? dropdown. The right panel will then change to display the names and other details of the Citrix XenServers that have been configured. To modify the details of a Citrix XenServer, click on the Modify Configured Citrix XenServers option from the What action would you like to perform? dropdown. The right panel will then change to display the Citrix XenServers section. From the Citrix XenServer Identity list, select the IP address of the Citrix XenServer to be modified. Upon selection of the Citrix XenServer's IP address, the other parameters in the right panel will be populated with the corresponding details. You can change any of the displayed details to suit your needs. Finally, click the Update button to save the changes. To delete a Citrix XenServer, click on the Delete Configured Citrix XenServers option from the What action would you like to perform? dropdown. Select the check box corresponding to the Citrix XenServer to be deleted and click the Delete button to delete it. To delete all the Citrix XenServers at one shot, select the check box just before the column heading, Citrix XenServer IP / Host, and click the Delete button.