[THIN] Re: 1 x Web Interface servicing multiple Citrix 4.0 Farms over WAN

Angela,
Not sure on the doco, you could try the Admin Guides?? But heres some further ideas. . . 
 
We run 1 Web Interface and 2 Citrix Farms, (a migration project still underway .. sigh) the user sees all applications from both farms for which that user has access to (ie if user has MS Access published to his user name from both farms the user will see the MSAccess icon twice)
 
You can configure "Zone preference and failover" as a policy for the citrix server sites so users that connect from IP Range X (canada) always connect canada servers firstly (and if it all goes pear shaped you can even configure a backup site so users connect to another site as a secondary) and then vice versa..
 
Not so sure on the WI speeds, but have avoided using V5 because its such a "cosmetic" change for the end users. and they will mostly get confused if the page changes from Red to Green. .  =)
 
We are running Wi 4.5.1.
 
Hope this helps a little :-)
James

 

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From: angela_smith9@hotmail.com
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: 1 x Web Interface servicing multiple Citrix 4.0 Farms over WAN
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:05:46 +1000

Hi

Where can I find good documentation on setting this up?  How does WI know what farm a user belongs to? If I have a CTX Farm in US and another in Canada.  A US User logs in, how does he get directed to the US Farm?  Is it based on IP, AD group?  Are there different links on the WI page?

Also in relation to Citrix WI versions, is it always best to go with the latest and greatest?  I recall reading that WI 4.6 is faster than V5?  My farm is version 4 so I need to ensure the version works with this old version.

Sorry for the silly question but Ive never done this before. 

Angela




Subject: [THIN] Re: 1 x Web Interface servicing multiple Citrix 4.0 Farms over WAN
From: steveg@thinclient.net
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:07:13 +0000


You can include multiple farms in a single web interface. In the settings within WI just specify more than one farm and define one or more servers within the farm for app enumeration.

In a distributed environment you gave to look at AD and WAN communications but WI is not a limiting factor, in fact, it is deosgned to aggragate mutilple farms.

Steve Greenberg



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From: ananth padmanabham
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:42:56 -0700 (PDT)
To: <thin@freelists.org>
Subject: [THIN] Re: 1 x Web Interface servicing multiple Citrix 4.0 Farms over WAN

Hi I think you need to create new web sites for each farm in Single Citrix web interface servers and make sure that communication between the servers should happen to each farm. U should have a 2 web interface for load balancing and fault tollance purpose. Anantha Padmanabham K --- On Fri, 19/6/09, Angela Smith <angela_smith9@hotmail.com> wrote: From: Angela Smith <angela_smith9@hotmail.com> Subject: [THIN] 1 x Web Interface servicing multiple Citrix 4.0 Farms over WAN To: thin@freelists.org Date: Friday, 19 June, 2009, 4:45 AM Hi We have multiple Citrix 4.0 farms in separate offices around the world.  Each office has its own WI Server.  I want to consolidate and use 1 WI Server in Head Office only.  Can 1 WI Server be configured so users connect to different farms in their own country?  I cant find any info on configuring WI Servers this way.  The Links between sites are 2Mb Frame Relay.  Web Interface version being used is V4.2. Will it work reliably? Thanks Ang Click here to find out more POP access for Hotmail is here!

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