Comments on: Farm Monitor Gadget for XenApp

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:05:13 +0000

How do I get the mpssdk.msi to install properly on vista x64? It always fails on the install and does not copy all the files properly. There is no good information using search engines to find a fix on the internet. I can’t use any fancy scripts or gadgets until I can get the MFCOM installed properly on x64 vista.

By: Nick Holmquist

Nick Holmquist — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:09:27 +0000

@Glen Orenstein Glen, Thanks for the feedback. The plan is to update this gadget for Windows 7 and in doing so add a number of other features. I will do my best to try and incorporate your suggestion into the next release!

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Vista farm monitor gadget | Digipulse.nl @ | Citrix — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:34:47 +0000

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By: Glen Orenstein

Glen Orenstein — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:42:28 +0000

It would be great if there is an option to add the default user account to use when connecting to the individual farms. In an Enterprise environment we often use a seperate admin account to manage servers.

Thanks,
Glen

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:55:18 +0000

Thanks for writing this great blog I really enjoyed.

By: Nick Holmquist

Nick Holmquist — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:12:50 +0000

@Simon Bramfitt
Thanks Simon. To answer your question:

I take the number of online servers in the farm and multiply it by ‘Full Farm Load’. Full farm load is dictated by a value of 10,000. This gives the maximum load that can exist in the farm.

I then get the actual load value from each server and add them together.

From that point I take the current sum of the load values and divide that by the maximum. After that I multiply that by 100 to get a percentage. To make things a bit cleaner I round the value.

While this does not take into account load evaluators of different criteria (which you may have in a silo based farm), it is a good indicator of farm load as a whole.

Hope that clarifies things?

By: Simon Bramfitt

Simon Bramfitt — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:34:56 +0000

Very nice Nick

Can you share how you are calculating ‘Farm Load’? it’s not a standard metric but if you have a good rule of thumb for this I’d be interested to know.

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By: Nick Holmquist

Nick Holmquist — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:56:45 +0000

@Gus Pinto Thanks Gus! Much more to come, I promise!