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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.
The search results include the user, type of session (desktop or application), machine, pool or farm, pod,
brokering pod ID, site, and global entitlements associated with each session. The session start time,
duration, and state also appear in the search results.
NOTE The brokering pod ID is not immediately populated for new sessions in the search results. This ID
usually appears in View Adminstrator between two and three minutes after a session begins.
Add a Pod to a Site
You can use View Administrator to add a pod to an existing site.
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 View Configuration > Sites.
3 Select the site that currently contains the pod to add to the site.
The names of the pods in the site appear in the lower pane.
4 Select the pod to add to the site and click Edit.
5 Select the site from the Site drop-down menu and click OK.
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