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vRealize Operations for Published Applications Desktop Agent
The vRealize Operations for Published Applications desktop agent runs as a service on the XenDesktop
Delivery Controller on each License server, RDS host, Store Front server, and on all VDI machines.
The desktop agent monitors Citrix ICA sessions and HDX sessions and applications launched in the Citrix
ICA and HDX sessions by using standard functions and APIs of Windows OS. The desktop agent
periodically collects the Citrix ICA sessions' data on properties and performance, and sends the data to the
adapter using a secure connection.
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 congure 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-congured 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 7.6/7.7/7.8/7.9/7.11 sites. During broker agent
conguration, 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 dierent remote
nodes to support large scale environments.
I 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 7.6/7.7/7.8/7.9/7.11 adapter cannot monitor the XenApp 6.5
environments.
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