[THIN] Re: Query Farm Name in User context

I might be missing something here, but why don't you just read the registry of the server on login to see which farm it
belongs to:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\IMA]

"Neighborhood"="YOUR_FARM_NAME_IS_HERE"

So a vbs or kix script could do this read quickly and easily and pass the name to a variable or what ever you need.
Normally I'd write a quick little api executeable in this case, but our team is working overtime at the moment so we won't
get a chance until maybe end of April. I'll let you know when we tap something together but in the mean time, reading the
reg key on login would solve the issue.

Let me know if I have miss understood what you are trying to do.

Cheers
--
Warren Simondson

Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy Pty Ltd

Website: http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com.au

Quoting Jeremy Saunders <Jeremy.Saunders@datacom.com.au>:

> I have to agree with Joe here.
>
>
>
> Also, I'm not sure in the example that Andrew has provided, but
> making
> MFCOM queries may require DCOM permissions and/or Custom Admin
> permissions in the Farm to view certain properties, so it becomes a
> pain
> to implement for all users. Much simpler to set variables or query a
> registry key. Both of which can be easily pushed out globally by
> custom
> ADM templates, startup scripts, psexec scripts, etc.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy.
>
>
>
> From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Joe Shonk
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:42 PM
> To: thin@freelists.org
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Query Farm Name in User context
>
>
>
> But at least you'll know what you own...
>
>
>
> Joe
>
>
>
> From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Andrew Wood
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:36 AM
> To: thin@freelists.org
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Query Farm Name in User context
>
>
>
> I suppose a potential issue there is you'd have to get other teams
> to
> brand their servers as well - so you'd know you're own and know what
> wasn't your, but you'd not know what your wasn't own was.
>
>
>
> From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Joe Shonk
> Sent: 10 March 2009 00:24
> To: thin@freelists.org
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Query Farm Name in User context
>
>
>
> You could always brand the server using an environment variable.
>
>
>
> Joe
>
>
>
> From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org]
> On
> Behalf Of Stratton, Doug ISMC:EX
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 1:50 PM
> To: thin@freelists.org
> Subject: [THIN] Query Farm Name in User context
>
>
>
> Hi
> We are using Citrix PS 4 and XA 4.5 and want to use our logon script
> to
> determine which Farm the user is on. We also need to be able to
> determine if we are on one of the other Citrix farms that we don't
> manage.
>
> What I am wondering is how can we determine the farm name with the
> logon
> scripts (visual basic 6) we use that the Users run so it has to be
> able
> to work in user context.
>
> Anyone got some code as an example? Or we I can look.
>
> Thank you all again.
> Regards,
> Doug Stratton, Shared Service BC
> Service Desk Email: 77000@gov.bc.ca
> Service Desk Tel: (250)387-7000
>
>
>
>
>
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