Citrix Presentation Server 4.0: Administration

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Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 Administration

• Module 5
• Managing Server and Server Farm Settings

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Overview

• Topics covered in the module include
• Managing Presentation Server Administrator
  Accounts and Folders
• Adding Administrator Accounts
• Configuring Administrator Privileges
• Using Folders to Manage Applications and Servers
• Configuring Server and Server Farm Settings
• Specifying a License Server
• Integrating with Novell Directory Services or
  eDirectory
• Configuring Server and Server Farm Communication
  Options
• Configuring the Presentation Server Farm
• Configuring Data Collectors
• Optimizing CPU Utilization
• Optimizing Virtual Memory Utilization
• Configuring Virtual IP Addresses for Applications
  and Sessions
• Configuring Connection Limits
• Configuring ICA Keep-Alive Settings
• Configuring ICA Settings
• Management Console for Citrix Access Suite
• Configuring My View in the Access Suite Console

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Managing Presentation Server Administrator
Accounts and Folders

• Presentation Server administrators with full
• administrative rights can
• Configure server and server farm settings
• Add and delete Presentation Server administrator
  accounts
• Grant permissions to Presentation Server
  administrator accounts
• Manage server and application folders

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Adding Administrator Accounts

• When a new Presentation Server administrator
  account
• is added, the account can be granted one of the
• following privilege levels
• View Only
• Full Administration
• Custom

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Configuring Administrator Privileges
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Using Folders to Manage Applications and Servers
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Configuring Server and Server Farm Settings
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Specifying a License Server
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Integrating with Novell Directory Services or
eDirectory

• For Presentation Server to use Novell Directory
  Services
• for authentication and user and group
  identification, one
• of the following must be installed
• Novell Directory Services Version 8.73 for
  NetWare 5.1
• Novell Directory Services for eDirectory Version
  8.5x for Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Server, or
  NetWare 5.x
• The minimum Novell client software is the Novell
  Client
• version 4.8.

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Configuring Server and Server Farm Communication
Options
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Configuring the Presentation Server Farm

• Citrix recommends that the administrator
  configure the
• server farm for best performance within the
  specific
• environment. These settings include
• Configuring data collectors
• Configuring CPU utilization
• Configuring virtual IP addresses for applications
  and sessions
• Configuring connection limits
• Configuring keep-alive settings
• Configuring ICA settings

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Configuring Data Collectors

• When configuring the preference setting for a
  data
• collector, an administrator can apply one of
• the following settings
• Most Preferred
• Preferred
• Default Preference
• Not Preferred

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Optimizing CPU Utilization
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Optimizing Virtual Memory Utilization
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Configuring Virtual IP Addresses for
Applications and Sessions
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Configuring Connection Limits
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Configuring ICA Keep-Alive Settings
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Configuring ICA Settings
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Exercise

• Complete the following exercises
• Exercise 5-1 Creating Citrix Administrator
  Accounts
• Exercise 5-2 Creating an Application Folder with
  Custom Privileges
• Exercise 5-3 Installing an Application into an
  Isolation Environment
• Exercise 5-4 Configuring Memory Optimization
• Exercise 8-5 Configuring Virtual IP Addressing

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Review

• Topics covered in the module include
• Managing Presentation Server Administrator
  Accounts and Folders
• Adding Administrator Accounts
• Configuring Administrator Privileges
• Using Folders to Manage Applications and Servers
• Configuring Server and Server Farm Settings
• Specifying a License Server
• Integrating with Novell Directory Services or
  eDirectory
• Configuring Server and Server Farm Communication
  Options
• Configuring the Presentation Server Farm
• Configuring Data Collectors
• Optimizing CPU Utilization
• Optimizing Virtual Memory Utilization
• Configuring Virtual IP Addresses for Applications
  and Sessions
• Configuring Connection Limits
• Configuring ICA Keep-Alive Settings
• Configuring ICA Settings
• Management Console for Citrix Access Suite
• Configuring My View in the Access Suite Console