Showing posts with label Citrix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Citrix. Show all posts

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Citrix Web interface

I got this error when access Web interface.
ERROR: The Citrix MetaFrame servers cannot process your request at this time. The Citrix XML Service object was not found. [404 Not Found]

I have tried to re-registry Citrix XML server on port 8080 a few time , but it don't work until I issue the command "iisreset".

Overall, here are the steps, based on the notice that Citrix XML service could not start ( start it in service console, it will move, but alway in the non-run status, no errors).

net stop ctxhttp ( it will stop XML service)
ctxxmlss /U
ctxxmlss /r80 ( it will failed because port 80 is in use by IIS)
ctxxmlss /r8080
net start ctxhttp

IISreset
also , make sure the configuration here are also correct by go to http:///citrix/metaframe/wiadmin
login with domain admin or citrix admin credential and configure Server to use 8080 for xml port.

reference:
This link explain configure of web interface admin

http://www.dabcc.com/miab/miab30/Implementation-Phase-14.-3.-Web-Interface-2.1-Web-Administration-Tool-MIAB-3.aspx

This link has all the screenshot for Presentation server 4.0 install.. A lot of screen shot image.

http://www.saunalahti.fi/pesonpa/projects/citrix_metaframe_4/citrix_metaframe_4.php

this link explain Addressing Using the Citrix Secure Gateway

http://grounding.co.za/blogs/trevor/archive/2007/11/08/addressing-using-the-citrix-secure-gateway.aspx

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Secondary logon and Citrix

Citrix can be used very creatively. For example, if you work in a multi forest/domain environment, IT staff would need to hop on to domain tools with different domain crendential. Secondary logon will be use so you won't need a secondary PC. Runas is the command that come with Windows product, which I knew it before. However, Citrix access gateway seem provide a better, easy-adopted, scalable interface to provide secondary logon as well as application/tool delivery. Once you login with your 2nd crendential, the available tools in that domain context are just there for you to click. I believe this is a great use of Citrix seamless integration technology.

More than that, you can customize the tools that you want helpdesk to use and restrict the permission as less as you want. Here you see, you can use this to delegate many things.

To sum it up, the Citrix model can be:
Financial/Business applications --> Citrix ---> non-IT users
admin tools --->Citrix ---> IT user with delegate control
Multiple domain ----> Citrix ---> user

Add one more layer increase the flexibility and give more granular control over the application