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For all its benefits, Virtualization Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) continues to be a massive headache for many enterprise technology teams. From improper personas and sizing, long logon times, hangs, lost sessions, freezes and crashes—often one small mistake in a virtualized environment can set your entire enterprise ablaze.
Oh man, did I get ahead of myself in my last post! I started chatting tools, and I realize now that I really should have been talking more about why I’m using Sensu and Gremlin. But it didn’t occur to me until last year at Monitorama. John Allspaw gave the keynote talk (Taking Human Performance Seriously). While you can watch the talk here, I’ll highlight a few points...
In our previous post, we discussed the question: 'What is Azure Monitor and how does it work?' and also covered the two types of data it stores, at a high level. In this part, we will get ourselves started with Azure Monitor Logs. More specifically, we'll discuss how Logs are collected by Azure Monitor or, in other words, what options you have to add data sources to Azure Monitor so you can display that data in a way that makes sense to you.
WLSDM is an enterprise “WebLogic console extension” which enables monitoring for WebLogic JMX MBean metrics and all the WebLogic domain assets (Health, Servers, Applications, Data Sources, JMS… etc.). It is very easy to create alarm and notification definitions by using WLSDM metric browser. WLSDM can store any WebLogic metric value historically and also can generate graphical reports.
A large health system with over 15 hospitals and hundreds of clinics across the U.S. provide VDI desktops to their medical staff via VMware Horizon View, and from those VDI sessions the medical staff accesses Cerner Millennium. Cerner Millennium is being delivered by Cerner’s remote hosting option (RHO) which delivers access internally via Citrix. This configuration is how 90% of their staff access Cerner Millennium.
Now how many of you have better monitoring as part of your New Year’s resolution? You want to implement better monitoring into your Citrix environments, right?You want your end-users to experience less technical faults by having a system in place that allows you and the team to be more proactive. OK, probably not what you have been thinking as the clock struck midnight, but it should be part of your professional goals for 2020.
