[THIN] Re: Daily Concurrent user reports - Presentation server 4.5 farm.

Ah... turn it on and then wait for the log to run for a day or so – then you'll get your graphs as you're expecting from the Citrix Licensing Console

 

If you want to do raw usage from Edgesight you could :

 

·         For each server create a  "Session For a Device By Hour" report that covers 1 day - this removes the aggregation that are introduced in group reports and longer time periods.

·         Bring all those reports as worksheets into a new spreadsheet.

·         Create a summary spreadsheet and total for each hour – this gives you a combined use total, by hour, for each server. you an

It's a mess I'll grant you – disappointing that out of the box edgesight doesn't cater for simple things like usage, and that there's not a warning in the console when you've not got logging on that historical usage is disabled.

 

For the future might be an idea to check out Introspect by XTS which can do this sort of analysis of Xenapp access for you - http://www.xtsinc.com/dnn/Product/Overview/tabid/176/Default.aspx

 

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From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Saravanan Srinivasan
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Subject: [THIN] Re: Daily Concurrent user reports - Presentation server 4.5 farm.

 

I check the opt file , it doesn have the reportlog line like you mentioned. --- On Tue, 4/7/09, Andrew Wood <andrew.wood@gilwood-cs.co.uk> wrote: From: Andrew Wood <andrew.wood@gilwood-cs.co.uk> Subject: [THIN] Re: Daily Concurrent user reports - Presentation server 4.5 farm. To: thin@freelists.org Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 4:02 AM If you've not modified the option file you're not collecting any data, if you're not collecting any data your historical usage reports aren't going to show any info at all.       From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Saravanan Srinivasan Sent: 06 April 2009 14:09 To: thin@freelists.org Subject: [THIN] Re: Daily Concurrent user reports - Presentation server 4.5 farm.   Thanks Andew,   I will check the option file. But whatever data I pull the x-axis doesn't change at all.   --- On Thu, 4/2/09, Andrew Wood <andrew.wood@gilwood-cs.co.uk> wrote: From: Andrew Wood <andrew.wood@gilwood-cs.co.uk> Subject: [THIN] Re: Daily Concurrent user reports - Presentation server 4.5 farm. To: thin@freelists.org Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 9:11 AM ...now I've had a chance to read the book...   Your ability to run reports from the license service is dependent on the license service logging the usage data   By default, report logging is turned off in MetaFrame Access Suite licensing. To activate report logging, add the REPORTLOG keyword to the options file. This keyword specifies the log location, and it specifies that the report log is not overwritten when the license server is restarted.   The options file is a server configuration file that defines licensing behaviour – your options file is probably C:\Program Files\Citrix\Licensing\MyFiles\CITRIX.opt" on your license server.  By default it'll have   NOLOG IN NOLOG OUT   as default options. You'll want to add the following to the .opt file and restart the license service:   REPORTLOG + "c:\program files\citrix\licensing\ls\reportlog.rl"   This will store usage (for reporting) to the file reportlog.rl – the "+" symbol means that the file will not be overwritten when you start the service   As the log file can grow and become unwieldy; Citrix recommend  not  having your report log grow over 50MB. We archive our log files monthly – essentially a script runs on the 1st of the month, stops the license service, moves the current report.rl file and renames it and restarts the license service.   I've got a script somewhere if you're interested?                 From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Sent: 02 April 2009 11:18 To: Thin Subject: [THIN] Re: Daily Concurrent user reports - Presentation server 4.5 farm.   Have you enabled logging on the license server? By default the license service doesn't log  Sent from my iPhone On 1 Apr 2009, at 22:32, Saravanan Srinivasan <sarav2k@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi Hth,   I am getting this error when I select specific dates.   Warning: C:\Program Files\Citrix\Licensing\LS\reportlog.rl contains 0 seconds duration or it falls entirely outside the time period specified for this report. No events found for this report   If I select All...it gets me a graph just for a day.... Any idea?   Thanks for your help. --- On Wed, 4/1/09, Andrew Wood <andrew.wood@gilwood-cs.co.uk> wrote: From: Andrew Wood <andrew.wood@gilwood-cs.co.uk> Subject: [THIN] Re: Daily Concurrent user reports - Presentation server 4.5 farm. To: thin@freelists.org Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 7:43 AM We archive off our license log files monthly - but we use these to generate concurrent usage numbers   1.       Historical Usage -> Add report logs (Add your reports from your archive) 2.       Product Reports -> Choose your product (e.g.  Enterprise| Concurrent User) 3.       Product Reports -> Choose your date range (e.g. All) 4.       Product Reports -> Choose your summary period (day/ week) 5.       Product Reports -> Choose 'Number of licenses' 6.       Generate the report     If we want to do a 'who logged on in the past month' we can use Edgesight   1.       Edgesight – Devices->Performance->Sessions 2.       Select 'Sessions for a group by day' 3.       Select your group (we've terminal servers grouped by internal/external – you might have something different) 4.       Select the date range 5.       Generate the report 6.       Export the data to CSV (Or excel, but CSV is quicker) 7.       Import the file into Excel 8.       Select user column & de-duplicate 9.       The resulting list is who has accessed your service over the past month   Obviously, you can change the time frame to be day/week/quarter as you like.   Hth   a.   From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Saravanan Srinivasan Sent: 01 April 2009 12:26 To: thin@freelists.org Subject: [THIN] Daily Concurrent user reports - Presentation server 4.5 farm.   Hello,   I am interested to know what others are doing to get daily concurrent user count for a monthly report?   Edgesight: We have edgesight and I couldn't find report for this.   AMC: Built-in Report Center in AMC also doesn't have anything for that.   License Console: I thought Historical Usage has some good reports... But whatever I select It came up with one one all the time.     May be I didn't use these tools properly or something I am doing wrong... Any idea?   I can go for a third party tool too if it works. Any suggestions?   Thanks SS