Farm Nanny 2.1: Citrix XenApp farm and server reporting / documentation added!

 Applications, Citrix, XenApp  28 Responses »
Jun 262012
 

Farm Nanny 2.1 is available and now features a Citrix XenApp farm & server reporting / documentation module.

The Farm Nanny Reporter exports all data (and more!) that you see in the Farm Nanny Resource Monitor to an Excel sheet, without the need to have Microsoft Excel installed on your server.

With the Farm Nanny Reporter you don’t have to run PowerShell scripts (which require you to install the XenApp SDK on your server) on your servers to document your Citrix XenApp farm: Just click the button and you’re done!
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Farm Nanny 2.0 available: A new look and many new features added!

 Applications, Citrix, Printing, XenApp  2 Responses »
Jun 202012
 

Farm Nanny 2.0 is available now and has many new features added!

The XenApp resource manager / farm monitor now shows the status of the print spooler and citrix print manager service, installed printer drivers and installed hotfixes.

Farm Nanny’s new features include:
- Printer Driver Replicator, a GUI for XenApp printer driver replication.
- Health Checker, an easy interface for checking your farm and XenApp server health and availability.
- Hotfix Browser, shows all available hotfixes and information from Citrix.com.
- Technote Browsers, showing you all the latest technotes directly from within Farm Nanny.

On top of all the new features, Farm Nanny also has a brand new clean and easy interface, based on WPF technology.
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Farm Nanny, a Citrix XenApp farm monitor application

 Applications, Citrix, XenApp  37 Responses »
May 012012
 

Although Citrix EdgeSight is completely packed with features, it is a little top-heavy and personally I still miss the good old Citrix resource manager because it was a quick and easy way to get an overview of what’s going on with your farm and servers.
Sure there are a lot of PowerShell scripts to be found which give you an overview of your farm, but those scripts are just snap-shots of your environment.
What you really need is something that monitors your Citrix XenApp farm in real-time

After some digging around in the Citrix XenApp SDK, I decided to make my own Citrix XenApp farm monitor: Farm Nanny!

Farm Nanny is a Citrix XenApp farm monitoring application for XenApp 6 and XenApp 6.5 which will help you with troubleshooting, health checks and resource monitoring.
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