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The desktop agent service is configured to restart automatically by default. You can change the default
configuration by accessing services.msc, right-click Desktop Agent Service, and select Properties >
Recovery.
vRealize Operations for Published Applications Broker Agent
The vRealize Operations for Published Applications broker agent runs on an active delivery controller, and
collects and sends information to the XD-XA adapter.
When you configure a broker agent, you pair the broker agent with a XD-XA adapter instance.
vRealize Operations for Published Applications Adapter
The vRealize Operations for Published Applications adapter collects Citrix XenDesktop inventory
information from the broker agent and collects metrics and performance data from desktop agents. The
vRealize Operations for Published Applications adapter sends that information to
vRealize Operations Manager. The information is displayed in pre-configured XenDesktop dashboards in
the vRealize Operations Manager user interface.
The vRealize Operations for Published Applications adapter runs on a cluster node or remote collector node
in vRealize Operations Manager. You can create a single vRealize Operations for Published Applications
adapter instance to monitor multiple XenDesktop 7.6 sites. During broker agent configuration, you pair the
broker agent with a vRealize Operations for Published Applications adapter instance.
If you are monitoring multiple XenDesktop sites, you can pair the broker agent installed in each site with
the same vRealize Operations for Published Applications adapter instance as long as the total number of
objects that the vRealize Operations for Published Applications adapter instance handles does not exceed
10,000. You can create more vRealize Operations for Published Applications adapter instances on different
remote nodes to support large scale environments.
IMPORTANT Creating more than one vRealize Operations for Published Applications adapter instance for
each cluster node or remote collector is not supported. Also, creating more than one
vRealize Operations for Published Applications adapter instance for each site is not supported. vRealize
Operations for Published Applications 7.6 adapter cannot monitor the XenApp 6.5 environments.
If your vRealize Operations for Published Applications environment resembles one of the following
configurations, VMware recommends that you create the vRealize Operations for Published Applications
adapter instance on a remote collector node.
XenDesktop
deployments with
multiple sites
To improve scalability, create the
vRealize Operations for Published Applications adapter instance on a remote
collector node to offload processing from the vRealize Operations Manager
cluster data nodes.
Remote datacenters
To minimize network traffic across WAN or other slow connections, install a
remote collector node with a separate
vRealize Operations for Published Applications adapter instance in remote
datacenters. Pair each vRealize Operations for Published Applications
adapter instance with the broker agent that is located in the same remote
datacenter.
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