Saturday, April 30, 2016

Part 13: Working with Citrix XenApp 6.5 – Deploying EdgeSight 5.4



EdgeSight is a service that allows us to monitor things like applications, sessions, devices, license usage, network, etc in real time. Normally we install the EdgeSight service on a dedicated server, installing EdgeSight on a XenApp server is not recommended.
The system requirements for EdgeSight 5.4 can be found here.

Deploying EdgeSight Server Role

Launch the installer within Citrix XenApp 6.5 Installation media
esAccept the language options and click Continue
es1At this point the installation Wizard will be displayed, so let’s continue
es2Chose the first option “EdgeSight Server Website and Database” option as this is the first EdgeSight installation
es3A prerequisites check will run and prompt us if there are any issues
es4Next, let’s accept the license agreement and continue
es5Keep the Typical choice and continue
es6We now need to specify the SQL server that we’re going to use for the EdgeSight database
es7At this point, make sure not to chose the existing Citrix Farm database, but instead provide a database name for the new EdgeSight database
es8Specify the account that will connect to the SQL database
es9We can now begin the installation
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es11Once the installation is complete, we can begin with the initial configuration
es12Once we click on Finish, an initial configuration page will open. We can begin the configuration by clicking Next
es13Provide the company name, timezone, and language information and click Next
es14We now need to create the superuser account, fill in the information and proceed to the next step
es15Next, configure the correct email settings
es16At this point, we’ll need to make sure we can connect to the license server
es17 Review the information, if all is good, click Finish
es18Let’s test the login with the superuser account we created earlier
es19There you go! We can now successfully login!

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