Specifications
Table Of Contents
- View Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Installation
- View Administrator
- Virtual Desktop Deployment
- Client Management
- Installing and Running View Client and View Portal
- Client Connections from the Internet
- Creating SSL Server Certificates
- Using Existing SSL Certificates
- Smart Card Authentication
- RSA SecurID Authentication
- View Client Command Line Options
- Virtual Printing
- Adobe Flash Bandwidth Reduction
- Client Computer Information
- Using PCoIP Display Protocol
- Using HP RGS Display Protocol
- View Composer
- Overview of View Composer
- Preparing vCenter Server for View Composer
- Preparing a Parent VM
- Deploying Linked Clone Desktops from View Manager
- Refreshing, Recomposing, and Rebalancing Linked Clone Desktops
- Using an Existing View Composer Database
- Using the SviConfig Tool for View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix: The locked.properties File
- Glossary
- Index
View Manager Administration Guide
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Desktops and Pools View
TheDesktopsandPoolsviewisdisplayedbydefaultwhenyouloginto
View AdministratororwhenyouclicktheDesktopsandPoolsbutton,andiswhere
youcreate,deploy,administer,andmonitoryourvirtualdesktops.
Fromhereyoucanexamineinformationaboutdesktopsordesktoppoolsandtheir
associatedusers;
individualdesktopsources;anysessionsthatareactive;anytasksthat
arescheduled;anddesktopusagepoliciesattheglobal,pool,oruserlevel.
TheDesktopsandPoolsviewisdividedintotwoparts:aleftpanethatcontainsan
InventoryandaSearchtabandarighthandpanethat
provideseitherglobalor
pool‐levelinformationaboutthedesktopscurrentlyavailable.
WhentheInventorytabisselected,theleftpaneprovidesanalphabeticlistofallthe
desktopsorpoolsunderthetop‐levelGlobaldesktopandpoolviewentry().This
entryisglobalinscope.Whenselected
itchangesthecontextoftherightpanetocover
allthedesktopsavailable.
Forexample,whenthisentryisselectedtheActiveSessionstabintherightpanelists
alltheactivesessionsforallViewManagerdesktops.
Ifanydesktopsordesktoppoolsarepresent,theyarelistedbeneath
theGlobal
desktopandpoolviewentry.Selectinganindividualdesktop()ordesktoppool
entry()changesthecontextoftherightpanetoprovideinformationspecifically
aboutthatdesktoporpool.
Forexample,whenanentryinthislistisselectedtheActiveSessionssub‐tabinthe
right
panelistsalltheactivesessionsforthedesktopsinthatpool.
ThetabsintherightpanearedescribedinTable 3‐1.Tabvisibilityisindicatedbythe
entryorentriesintheContextcolumnofthistable:
Desktop—thetabisvisiblewhenanindividualdesktop()isselected.
DesktopPool—thetabisvisiblewhenadesktoppoolentry()isselected.
Global—thetabisvisiblewhentheGlobaldesktopandpoolviewentry()is
selected.
All—thetabisvisibleinalloftheabovecontexts.