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ManageEngine® Applications Manager VMware Horizon View Connection Broker | ||
Applications Manager lets you auto-discover, monitor and manage your VMware Horizon View environments. Applications Manager collects data from your managed virtual desktops and multiple Horizon View instances, spread across one or more datacenters. This data is then presented in preconfigured dashboards for real-time performance analysis. Applications Manager supports multiple Horizon View instances and provides you with a single intuitive dashboard that allows you to view all VMware Horizon View components, status of services used by the View and underlying infrastructure as well.
While configuring the VMware Horizon View, Applications Manager discovers the following components as different monitors associates them to Monitor Group for Horizon View:
VMware Horizon View Connection Broker
Active Directory
vCenter
MsSQL or ORacle DB used for Events
Query Monitor with events query
Go to the Monitors Category View by clicking the Monitors tab. Click on VMware Horizon View Connection Broker under the Virtualization Table. Displayed is the VMware Horizon View bulk configuration view distributed into three tabs:
Availability tab, gives the Availability history for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
Performance tab gives the Health Status and events for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
List view enables you to perform bulk admin configurations.
Click on the monitor name to see all the server details listed under the following tabs:
| Parameters |
Description |
|---|---|
| Connection Broker Configuration | |
| Connection Broker ID |
The ID of the View connection broker. |
| Name |
The name of the View connection broker. |
| DNS Name |
The domain's DNS name. |
| NetBIOS Name |
The domain's NetBIOS name of the connection broker server. |
| IP Address |
The IP address of the connection broker server. |
| Version |
VMware View Version. |
| Build |
VMware View Buiild. |
| Activation |
Activation Status. |
| Is Alive |
Indicates whether the broker component is up. |
| Last Backup Time |
The time during which the last View LDAP backup was performed. |
| Type |
The internal monitoring type. |
| External URL | URL throught whichh other modules connects. |
| Connection Broker Stats | |
| Total Sessions | The total number of desktop sessions. |
| Maximum Session | The highest recorded number of current VDM sessions. |
| Total SVI Sessions | The current number of VDM SVI sessions. |
| Maximum SVI Sessions | The highest recorded number of current VDM SVI sessions. |
| Total Checked Out VMs | The current number of checked out VDM VMs. |
| Maximum Checked Out VMs | The highest recorded number of current checked out VDM VMs. |
| Parameters |
Description |
|---|---|
Horizon View Pool Configuration |
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| Pool ID |
This indicates the View desktop pool ID. Spaces are not allowed when specifying the pool ID. |
| Name |
The name of the desktop pool |
| Datastore Path |
This specifies which datastores to use for provisioning full-clone desktops. |
| Resource Pool Path |
This indicates the path to the resource pool that will contain the virtual desktops. If resource pools are not being used, simply specify the vSphere cluster. |
| VM Folder Path |
This specifies the vCenter folder in which we have to create the virtual machines. |
| Parent VM Path |
Indicates the full path to the parent VM used to export the network label data. |
| Parent VM Snapshot Path |
Indicates the path to the parent VM snapshot, |
| Composer Domain |
Your View Composer servers and the domains they are attached to. |
| Delivery Model |
Indicates if the Hosted Virtual Desktop delivery model is automatically provisioned into View pools. |
| Provision Enabled |
Indicates if the provisioning of VM for VDM is enabled or not.
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| Protocol | This specifies the default display protocol from either RDP or PCoIP |
| Horizon View Pool Stats | |
| Minimum Provisioned Desktops | This indicates the minimum number of linked-clone desktops that should be provisioned and available during View Composer maintenance operations. This value must be smaller than the MinimumCount value. |
| Head Room Count |
This specifies the minimum number of desktops to have powered on and available at all times. |
| Maximum Count |
This specifies the maximum number of desktops to create. |
| Minimum Count | This specifies that desktops should be provisioned on demand, in amounts equal to the number provided. To provision all desktops up front, use the same value specified for MaximumCount. |
| Parameters |
Description |
|---|---|
Horizon View VM Details |
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| Hostname |
The hostname of the virtual machine. |
| IP Address |
The IP address of the virtual machine. |
| VM Name |
The machine name of the virtual machine to be added to the pool. |
| Guest Full Name |
The name of the guest machine. |
| Is In Pool |
This retrieves desktops based on whether or not they are in a desktop pool. Options are true or false. |
| Pool ID |
This indicates the desktop pool ID. |
| Is Linked Clone |
This retrieves desktops based on whether or not they are a linked clone. Options are true or false. |
| Machine ID |
The Physical machine ID used to identify the physical desktop. |
| vCenter ID |
The vCenter Server ID. |
| Path | The full path to the parent virtual machine. |
| Parameters |
Description |
|---|---|
Remote Sessions Details |
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| Session | Indicates the View session ID for remote VMs. |
| DNS Name | Indicates the DNS name of the Virtual Desktop for remote VMs. |
| Pool ID | Indicates the desktop pool ID for remote VMs. |
| Start Time | Indicates the time the session was started including the day, time, time zone, and year. |
| State | Indicates the state of the desktop (Connected or Disconnected). |
| Protocol | Indicates the protocol being used in session (PCoIP or RDP). |
| Duration | Indicates the duration of the session. |
| Local Sessions Details | |
| Session | Indicates the View session ID for local VMs |
| DNS Name | Indicates the DNS name of the Virtual Desktop for local VMs |
| Pool ID | Indicates the desktop pool ID for local VMs |
| Start Time | Indicates the time the session was started including the day, time, time zone, and year. |
| State | Indicates the state of the desktop (Connected or Disconnected). |
| Protocol | Indicates the protocol being used in session (PCoIP or RDP). |
| Duration | Indicates the duration of the session. |
| Parameters |
Description |
|---|---|
vCenter Configuration |
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| Hostname |
Hostname of the vCenter Server. |
| Port |
This indicates the port to use with vCenter Server. |
| Server URL |
The URL of the vCenter via which the View connects. |
| Composer URL |
The View Composer server URL. |
| AD Configuration |
The Active directory configuration. |
| Version |
The version of the vCenter server. |
| Composer Enabled |
Indicates whether the View composer is enabled. |
| Broker Entry |
The Connection Broker details. |
| Create Ramp Factor |
This indicates the maximum concurrent vCenter desktop provisioning operations. |
| Delete Ramp Factor |
This indicates the maximum concurrent desktop power operations. |
| State | The state of the vCenter. |
| vCenter Certificate Details | |
| Hostname |
The hostname of the vCenter server. |
| Certificate Valid |
The SSL certificate Validity. |
| Validity Start Date |
The SSL certificate Validity start date. |
| Validity Expiry Date |
The SSL certificate Validity expiry date. |
| Reason |
The resason for any SSL error. |
| Certificate About To Expire |
The flag to the certificate about to expire. |
| Certificate Thumb print Matched | The SSL certificate Thumb print matched or not. |
| Parameters |
Description |
|---|---|
| Domain |
The Active Directory Domain used for Vieew Set up. |
| Username |
The administrator Username. |
| vCenter ID |
The vCenter ID to which the set up is linked. |
| Domains |
Domains and sum domain details |
| Is Problem | Health status of the Composer domain |
| Parameters |
Description |
|---|---|
| Server |
The database hostname. |
| Port |
The database Port. |
| Server Type |
The database type (MsSQL /Oracle DB). |
| DB Name |
The database name of the Alerts & Events. |
| Table Prefix |
The table prefix for alerts or events tables. |
| State |
The health of the Events DB. |
| Connected |
Indicates whether the database is connected. |
| Connected Node |
The components that are connected. |
| Error | Error. |
| Parameters |
Description |
|---|---|
License Expiry Date |
The expiry date of the VMware View license. |
| Local Mode Enabled |
Determines whether users can check out desktops for local use. |
| View Composer Enabled | Indicates whether users can use View Composer. |
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