Vendor / Functionality eG Innovations Lakeside Systrack Smart-X ControlUp Splunk Citrix Director 2.1 / EdgeSight Citrix Director 7.x
Vendor / Functionality eG Innovations Lakeside Systrack Smart-X ControlUp Splunk Citrix Director 2.1 / EdgeSight Citrix Director 7.x
Key Monitoring Tools by Platform
XenApp 6.x Dir for 6.5 only No
XenDesktop 5.x Limited scalability for ES No
XenApp / XenDesktop 7.x No
Basic Functionality
Server Health Monitoring
ICA/HDX Channel Monitoring
Login Performance (inc. Profile)
Delegated Admins
Additional Modules / Components
Network
Storage No Limited
Hypervisor Q3 2014 No
Others Available Endpoints, desktops Endpoints, Servers Any machine data n/a NetScaler
Requirements
Agent Agent or agentless Depends Built-in
Server/VDI-side changes None None None None WinRM WMI proxy
Console Server Resources 2 CPUs, 4GB Ram 2 CPUs, 4GB Ram 8% avc CPU/800MB RAM Depends Depends Depends
Admin Training Yes, provided Minimal Not required Yes Yes Yes
Data
Database Type SQL Server or Oracle SQL Server Express or full In-RAM/cloud None SQL Server SQL Server
Retention Period (default) 13 months 3 years Unlimited Forever 30 days 90 days
Data Archive Available Via SQL n/a Built-in Via SQL Via SQL
Data Security SSL, AD integration Full/end-to-end Login/encryption Encryption, certificates None SSL optional
Application Monitoring
App Latency No No No
App Resources No No
Launch Frequency
Launch Time Q2/15 No w/HDX Insight
User Sessions
Drilldown into Metrics
Involuntary Disconnections No No
Recover Version
Printer Errors No No
Network
Latency w/HDX Insight
Min/Max No No
Idle No No
Identify Network Failure No No
Licensing
Users, Servers or Endpoints Servers or users Per desktop, server, RDS # CCUs and admins Daily volume Platinum (full features) Platinum (full features)
Separate License Server No No No No
Free Version No FastTrack (Citrix Project Accelerator) <50 user sessions Yes Platinum Platinum
Trial Period 30 days 60 days 30 days 60 days n/a n/a
Upgrading to XA/XD 7.x
Same Console No No
Same Database n/a No No
Changes to Config Reconfiguration required Minimal No Yes Migration required Migration required

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