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View Pod Federation Health in View Administrator
View constantly monitors the health of the pod federation by checking the health of each pod and View
Connection Server instances in those pods. You can view the health of a pod federation in View
Administrator.
You can also view the health of a pod federation from the command line by using the vdmadmin command
with the -H option. For information about vdmadmin syntax, see the Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools
in View document.
IMPORTANT View event databases are not shared across pods in a pod federation.
Procedure
1 Log in to the View Administrator user interface for any View Connection Server instance in the pod
federation.
2 In View Administrator, select Inventory > Dashboard.
The Remote Pods section in the System Health pane lists all pods, their member View Connection Server
instances, and the known health status for each View Connection Server instance.
A green health icon indicates that the View Connection Server instance is online and available for the Cloud
Pod Architecture feature. A red health icon indicates that the View Connection Server instance is offline or
the Cloud Pod Architecture feature cannot connect to the View Connection Server instance to confirm its
availability.
View Desktop and Application Sessions in the Pod Federation
You can use View Administrator to search for and view desktop and application sessions across the pod
federation.
You can search for desktop and application sessions by user, pod, or brokering pod. The user is the end user
who is connected to the desktop or application, the pod is the pod on which the desktop or application is
hosted, and the brokering pod is the pod to which the user was connected when the desktop or application
was first allocated.
Procedure
1 Log in to the View Administrator user interface for any View Connection Server instance in the pod
federation.
2 In View Administrator, select Inventory > Search Sessions.
3 Select search criteria and begin the search.
Option Action
Search by user
a Select User from the drop-down menu.
b Click in the text box.
c Select search criteria in the Find User dialog box and click OK.
d Click Search to begin the search.
Search by pod
a Select Pod from the drop-down menu and select a pod from the list of
pods that appears.
b Click Search to begin the search.
Search by brokering pod
a Select Brokering Pod from the drop-down menu and select a pod from
the list of pods that appears.
b Click Search to begin the search.
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