Melvin’s Citrix Blog

 6 new health packs/tests released! With the PS 4.5 Feature Pack 1, there are 6 new health packs/tests. If you are just looking for these 6 new health packs, you can also download them from the following location (and install them on PS 4.5 Enterprise or Platinum servers) – http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX112805

• Microsoft Print Spooler test

Test ensures Microsoft print spooler reliability. It enumerates printers on the local server, enumerates printer drivers and print processors. Exercising these tasks is fundamental to gauge the health of the print service

• Citrix Print Manager Service test

This test verifies the health of the service by enumerating local session printers etc.

• Check DNS test

The Check DNS test by default will run a forward DNS lookup and a reverse DNS lookup to ensure that there are no DNS related errors that can degrade the health of the server.

• ICA Listener test

The responsibility of this test is to ensure that ICA clients can make a successful connection to the local server via the ICA protocol. This functionality is validated by pinging the ICA listener and monitoring the response.

• Check XML Threads

This test monitors to see if the XML service is getting overloaded with traffic. When this happens, Web Interface/PN Agent connections will suffer. This test will alert administrators that they may need to address XML server performance

• Check Local Host Cache test

This test is responsible for recognizing and responding to LHC corruptions and inconsistencies on the local machine that might have resulted from stale data left when removing a server and/or published application. LHC inconsistencies refer to duplicate entries or entries that do not match with the data store objects.