Novell PRODUCT NAME 10.3 - DEPLOYING ZENWORKS ON CITRIX SERVER BEST PRACTICES GUIDE 12-13-2010 Manual

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Deploying ZENworks on a Citrix Server Best Practices Guide
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December 13, 2010
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Deploying ZENworks on a Citrix Server Best Practices Guide

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  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Contents About This Guide 1 Best Practices for Deploying ZENworks on a Citrix Server Understanding the Need for Integrating ZENworks and the Citrix Server ....9 Gathering Critical Information for Design Activities .
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  • Page 7: About This Guide

    About This Guide The purpose of this Best Practices Guide is to describes the items you need to consider when deploying Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management on a Citrix server. Audience This guide is intended for ZENworks administrators. Feedback We want to hear your comments and suggestions about this manual and the other documentation included with this product.
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  • Page 9: Best Practices For Deploying Zenworks On A Citrix Server

    Configuration Management on a Citrix server. This information is intended to supplement the online resources that Novell provides to give you a better understanding of the design-related topics and requirements when deploying a Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management solution on a Citrix server.
  • Page 10: Gathering Critical Information For Design Activities

    1.2 Gathering Critical Information for Design Activities You need to gather information to help you design your specific implementation for deploying Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management on a Citrix Server. Review the following sections: Section 1.2.1, “Performing a Technical Assessment,” on page 10 Section 1.2.2, “Factors Influencing Scalability,”...
  • Page 11: Factors Influencing Scalability

    (http://www.citrix.com). Is the Novell Client installed on the Citrix server? If the Novell Client is not installed on a Citrix server, the Citrix server session might crash during login. To avoid this issue, see “Tasks to be Performed After Deploying the Agent on Citrix Servers”...
  • Page 12: Ports Used By The Zenworks Agent

    1.2.4 Ports Used by the ZENworks Agent For information on the ports used by the ZENworks Agent, see the ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Installation Guide (http://www.novell.com/documentation/zcm10/index.html) 1.3 Performing Lab Tests and Validation Before deploying ZENworks 10 Configuration Management on Citrix Server in a production environment, we recommend that you test ZENworks 10 Configuration Management on the Citrix servers with the exact load that needs to be in the production environment.
  • Page 13: Zenworks Configuration Management Tuning Parameters

    To avoid high utilization of resources on the Citrix server: 1 Open the Registry Editor. 2 Go to HKLM\Software\Novell\ZCM\ 3 Create a string called EnableBatchRefresh and set its value to 1. By default, the number of user sessions that can be simultaneously refreshed is 5.
  • Page 14: High Consumption Of Memory On A Citrix Server

    To speed up the login process, perform the following steps to execute the device refresh asynchronously: 1 Open the Registry Editor. 2 Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Novell\ZENworks. 3 Create a string called ZENLoginUserRefreshAsync and set its value to TRUE. 4 Log in to the device again.

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