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Table Of Contents
- VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Administration
- Contents
- VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon Administration
- Monitoring Your Horizon Environment
- Using the Horizon Dashboards
- Introducing the Horizon Dashboards
- Horizon Overview Dashboard
- Horizon Help Desk Dashboard
- Horizon Infrastructure Dashboard
- Horizon User Sessions Dashboard
- Horizon VDI Pools Dashboard
- Horizon RDS Pools Dashboard
- Horizon Applications Dashboard
- Horizon Desktop Usage Dashboard
- Retrieve In Guest Process Data for Desktop Sessions
- Horizon User Session Details Dashboard
- Retrieve In-Guest Process Data for Session Objects
- Horizon RDS Host Details Dashboard
- Retrieve In-Guest Process Data for Host Objects
- Horizon Adapter Self Health Dashboard
- Horizon End User Experience Dashboard
- Using the Horizon Reports
- Using the Horizon Dashboards
- Maintaining vRealize Operations for Horizon
- Troubleshooting a vRealize Operations for Horizon Installation
- Create a vRealize Operations Manager Support Bundle
- Download vRealize Operations for Horizon Broker Agent Log Files
- Download vRealize Operations for Horizon Desktop Agent Log Files
- View the Collection State and Status of a Horizon Adapter Object
- Horizon Collector and Horizon Adapter Log Files
- Modify the Logging Level for Horizon Adapter Log Files
- Remove Adapter Instance
- Cleanup Objects
- Firewall Rules
- Licensing
- Communication Issues Between Horizon Adapter and Agents
- Post Upgrade Configurations
- Agents-Related Issues
- Missing Metrics
- Missing Logon Duration
- Index
Horizon Applications Dashboard
Use the Horizon Applications dashboard to view the status and performance of application pools and their
associated farms, RDS hosts, application sessions, application instances, and application users. The Horizon
Applications dashboard is specic to Horizon 6.1 and later environments.
N You can hide dashboards that are not relevant to your Horizon environment. For information about
conguring dashboards, see the vRealize Operations Manager documentation.
Tips for Using the Horizon Applications Dashboard
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Application Pools widget shows all the application pools in current environment. It is the master
widget in this dashboard and shows the following data of application pool: pool name, number of
application instances, average application launch time and collection status.
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Application Pool Relationship widget shows all the parent/children objects of the selected pool.
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Application instances widget shows all the running instances of the selected application pool in
application pools widget. The following instance data are shown: user name, pool name, session state,
application duration, server name, VM name, and collection status.
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Application Instance Resource Trend widget shows the detailed instance resource consumption trend.
The time period is last hour by default. The data shown are instance health, workload, CPU, memory,
disk read bytes per second, and disk write bytes per second.
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Application Use widget shows the users that launched the selected application in the last hour(default
time period). You need to export the data in this widget to a csv le to see the detailed application user
report.
Horizon Desktop Usage Dashboard
Use the Horizon Desktop Usage dashboard to view usage data for the desktop pools in your Horizon
environment.
The All Desktop Pools widget lists all of the VDI desktop pools in your Horizon environment and is the
master widget for the dashboard. When you select a pool in the All Desktop Pools widget, the other widgets
on the dashboard show information about the pool you selected. The All Desktop Pools widget also contains
several columns that show aggregate metrics.
You can select a desktop pool in the All Desktop Pools widget and click the Dashboard Navigation buon
to navigate to other Horizon dashboards or launch Horizon Administrator.
Horizon Desktop Usage dashboard does not have RDS and Application details or Pools.
Tips for Using the Horizon Desktop Usage Dashboard
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Use the Desktop Resource Trend widget to view connected and disconnected sessions for the selected
pool. The charts in this widget enable you to compare the number of sessions during dierent time
periods. Use the Pool desktop Sessions widget to view all connected and Disconnected sessions for the
selected pool. This widget also contains several metric columns, including Logon Timestamp. You can
click the Dashboard Navigation buon to navigate to the Horizon user Session Details dashboard.
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Use the Top Pool Alerts widget to view active alerts for the selected pool and its children.
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Use the Pool Events widget to view a time-line of pool events and alerts.
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You can use the Running Application/Processes & Users widget on the horizon Desktop usage
dashboard to obtain information about in-guest processes and their resource usage for Desktop session
objects.
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