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1. Setup a Private Site for Monitoring From Your End-Users Perspective 1. Setup a Private Site for Monitoring From Your End-Users PerspectiveYou want to monitor RDP performance from your end-users perspective to understand end-to-end network, bandwidth, latency and quality issues in real-time. Read more about We recommend putting our agent in similar networking conditions as your users will access the application from.2. Next, Configure an RDP Sensor to Monitor Remote Desktop 2. Next, Configure an RDP Sensor to Monitor Remote DesktopAn RDP sensor creates a remote session against any Remote Desktop Server farm, VDI instance or Virtual Machine as a valid user account. The user can be local to the server or be a member within the domain. Exoprise recommends creating dedicated accounts for the RDP sensors within the farm as each sensor will login and logoff from their session for each sensor run.In a load-testing scenario you can utilize PowerShell to create accounts within the Remote Desktop Environment at the same time as you allocate and deploy CloudReady RDP sensor(s). See more about our and how it can be utilized to automate sensor creation. This is helpful if you plan on spinning up dozens of sensors at the same time for load-testing your Remote Desktop Services.Choose the CloudReady RDP Sensor3. Enter the Login Credentials 3. Enter the Login CredentialsEnter the login credentials for the account that you just created. For testing, you can enter your own account to see what it does. All supplied information will be validated and tested before the sensor is deployed.Enter the credentials for the account that you want to login with4. Next, Enter the Application That You Want to Launch 4. Next, Enter the Application That You Want to LaunchOptionally, you can have the RDP sensor launch an application once its signed into the remote session. This can be used to test how long it takes from login to launch of an application. We have customers using this for load-testing their XenApp and Remote Desktop Server farms and for disaster recovery scenarios. By continuously testing the launch time of any application, customers can be certain they are always prepared to deliver mission-critical applications via remote desktop, VDI or Terminal Services.In this example, we are launching Internet Explorer in the Remote Desktop session and having it navigate to www.exoprise.com. We are going to have it look for the text that we know is on the front page of our site, “Monitor Your Cloud”. When the sensor reads the screen and sees this text, it will know the application has finished launching. You can supply any path to a custom application and have it search for text in the title-bar or within the application.Enter the full path to the remote application to launch as well as what text to look for5. Next, Validate the Session and Application Launch 5. Next, Validate the Session and Application LaunchBefore you can deploy a sensor to a Private Site you must validate its configuration. Once you click next, the sensor will be tested with the current configuration. For the RDP sensor this can take a few minutes while the sensor is downloaded, the session is launched and tested. The cool thing about the RDP sensor is that it captures screenshots of the RDP session during validation and presents them when it is finished.By capturing the screenshots you can see if the correct application is being launched and that the condition for successful launch is being met. Unless the application launch is successfully detected, you won’t be able to continue with the deployment of the RDP sensor.Continuous End-to-end Monitoring and Testing of Your Remote Desktop EnvironmentOnce you deploy your sensor you will be continuously monitoring the delivery of your application within your Remote Desktop environment! This can be used for end-to-end monitoring of your Remote Desktop Server, Citrix Xenapp or older Terminal Services environment.Here’s an example of the visualization of our RDP sensor monitoring Remote Desktop Services.Remote Desktop Login to Application Launch Time Proactively monitoring the performance, up-time and availability of your end-to-end remote desktop or VDI infrastructure is critical to successfully delivering Remote Desktop Services. With CloudReady you get the additional benefit of being able to compare your private-cloud desktop performance to other customers, anonymously and in aggregate, to gauge just how great your own setup is performing. Give it a try.Get in Touch for a Custom DemoLearn how you can improve employee digital experience with browser synthetics and endpoint monitoring. Get a custom demo to see how we synthetically monitor Microsoft 365 with CloudReady as well as real user monitoring with Service Watch. Jason Lieblich leads Exoprise and loves helping customers get started proactively monitoring their clouds.Related Posts The Exoprise Marketing team sat down with Exoprise CEO Jason Lieblich and Forrester Senior Analyst… What is Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)? Application Performance Management (APM) measures how a SaaS or… Waltham, MA – November 16, 2021 – Exoprise, a leading provider of Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) solutions…SubscribeRecent Posts
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