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Table 8‑1. Worksheet: Configuration Settings for Creating a Manual Farm (Continued)
Setting Description
Fill in Your Value
Here
When timeout occurs Determines whether an empty application session is disconnected or
logged off after the Empty session timeout limit is reached. Select
Disconnect or Log off. A session that is logged off frees up resources,
but opening an application takes longer. The default is Disconnect.
Log off disconnected
session
Determines when a disconnected session is logged off. This setting
applies to both desktop and application sessions. Select Never,
Immediate, or After ... minutes. Use caution when you select
Immediate or After ... minutes. When a disconnected session is
logged off, the session is lost. The default is Never.
Allow HTML Access to
desktops and
applications on this
farm
Determines whether HTML Access to RDS desktops and applications
is allowed. Check the Enabled box to allow HTML Access to RDS
desktops and applications. When you edit this setting after a farm is
created, the new value applies to existing desktops and applications
as well as new ones.
NOTE Unlike an automated farm, a manual farm does not have the setting Max sessions per RDS server,
because a manual farm can have RDS hosts that are not identical. For RDS hosts in a manual farm, you can
edit individual RDS hosts and change the equivalent setting Number of connections.
Worksheet for Creating an Automated Farm
When you create an automated farm, the Add Farm wizard prompts you to configure certain settings.
You can print this worksheet and write down the values you want to specify when you run the Add Farm
wizard.
Table 8‑2. Worksheet: Configuration Settings for Creating an Automated Farm
Setting Description
Fill in Your Value
Here
ID Unique name that identifies the farm in View Administrator.
Description Description of this farm.
Access group Access group in which to place all the pools in this farm.
For more information about access groups, see the role-based
delegated administration chapter in the View Administration
document.
Default display
protocol
Select PCoIP or RDP. This setting applies to desktop pools only. The
display protocol for application pools is always PCoIP. If you select
RDP and you plan to use this farm to host application pools, you
must set Allow users to choose protocol to Yes . The default is PCoIP.
Allow users to choose
protocol
Select Yes or No. This setting applies to RDS desktop pools only. If
you select Yes, users can choose the display protocol when they
connect to an RDS desktop from Horizon Client. The default is Yes.
Empty session timeout
(applications only)
Determines the amount of time that an empty application session is
kept open. An application session is empty when all the applications
that run in the session are closed. While the session is open, users can
open applications faster. You can save system resources if you
disconnect or log off empty application sessions. Select Never or set
the number of minutes as the timeout value. The default is After 1
minute.
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