A Citrix health checklist can assist when reviewing an environment for configurations that might cause future problems, not necessarily existing problems. Health Checks tend to focus on non-functional qualities like the following:
- Availability
- Security
- Manageability
- User Experience
- Performance
- Reliability
Carl Stalhood has put together a very useful health checklist article for Citrix environments. The health check list covers the following Citrix components and configurations:
- StoreFront Load Balancing
- StoreFront Servers core configuration
- StoreFront Advanced Configuration
- Delivery Controllers
- Citrix Studio
- Citrix License Server
- Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Licensing
- Citrix Director
- Citrix VDAs core configuration
- VDAs – Hypervisor Hardware Clusters
- VDAs – Virtual Machine Hardware (vSphere)
- VDAs – Master Image Build
- Citrix App Layering
- Citrix Provisioning
- Provisioning Servers:
- Provisioning Farm Properties:
- Provisioning Services vDisks
- Provisioning Services Target Devices
- Group Policies and Active Directory
- Citrix Policies
- Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM)
- Citrix Profile Management and Folder Redirection (Home directories)
- Endpoint Devices
- Citrix ADC core configuration
- Citrix ADC High Availability Pair
- Citrix ADC Load Balancing and SSL
- Citrix ADC SDX
- Citrix Gateway ICA Proxy
- Citrix ADC GSLB
- Citrix ADM
Similarly when talking about Citrix Workspace, the Citrix components which are involved and will need to be proactively health checked are the following:
- Unified Citrix Workspace App experience
- Workspace Intelligence
- Unified Endpoint Management
- Citrix Access Control
- Content Collaboration
- Virtual Apps and Desktops
- Citrix Analytics
The Citrix health checklist can be very useful when auditing Citrix environments to determine pain points, health issues as well as to prevent functional and non-functional issues from appearing.
The detailed Citrix health checklist can be found at: https://www.carlstalhood.com/citrix-health-check/
