Archive | February, 2016

Monitoring Horizon View Connection Server LDAP Replication

29 Feb

You wish to monitor the LDAP replication traffic between the Horizon View Connection servers (CS) in your environment, Simply run the following command against all the replicating CS individually. Note: Run the following command on a CS or make sure Windows Remoting enabled to execute from a remote machine.
CON1:

repadmin /showrepl con1.example.com:389 /errorsonly

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if you got the above response means inbound/outbound replication is successful on this CS

Suppose you have 4 CS within your environment, you would like to monitor the replication across all of them. One could ‘Schedule a Task’ to check replication every 4 hours between the CS and send the report to concern monitoring team for further action. In my case, I am running this command from a remote machine which has SMTP enabled to send emails.

CON1 – CON4:

repadmin /showrepl con1.example.com:389 /errorsonly

repadmin /showrepl con2.example.com:389 /errorsonly

repadmin /showrepl con3.example.com:389 /errorsonly

repadmin /showrepl con4.example.com:389 /errorsonly

Type the following in a notepad and save it as batch file and save as ‘replication.cmd’

How to check Outbound Partners of Connection Server
In case you want to see the outbound replication partners of the CS you will have to run the following command on each server.(By default inbound is always visible)

repadmin /showrepl con1.example.com:389 /repsto


How to check replication status with Cloud Pod Architecture enabled
The only difference when testing the replication of CS with CPA is the port number is different, you will have to run the following command

repadmin /showrepl con1.example.com:22389


This was a quick way to monitor the LDAP replication between CS!
Thanks,
Aresh

Installing Horizon View Connection Server 6.2.2 (Replica Server)

16 Feb

In this blog post I will be capturing the steps involved in the installation of Replica Connection Servers. The post is mainly for people who want to have a glance at the installation steps for Horizon 6 View Connection Server (64 bit) 6.2.2 – Build Number: 3508079

View experts please skip this post, if you are already familiar with the steps.

Installation of the Replica Horizon 6 Connection Server

Step 1: Right click on the Connection Server package and select ‘Run as Administrator’

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Step 2: Click on ‘Next’. The version number show’s as ‘6.2.2’

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Step 3: Click on ‘I accept the terms in the license agreement’ and select ‘Next’

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Step 4: Leave the installation in the default directory and select ‘Next

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Step 5: This is the Replica (Second) Connection Server of the environment select ‘Horizon 6 Replica Server’ and ‘Install HTML Access’. ‘IPv4’ is selected by default and click on ‘Next’

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Step 6: Enter the FQDN of the primary Connection Server ‘con1.example.com’

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Step 7: Click ‘Configure Windows Firewall automatically’ and select ‘Next’

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Step 8: Click on ‘Install’ to begin installing Connection Server

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Step 9: Watch the Progress

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Step 10: Uncheck ‘Show the readme files’ and click on ‘Finish’

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Step 11: On your desktop there will be an Icon ‘Horizon 6 Administrator’

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Step 12: Enter the ‘Username’ and ‘Password’

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Checkout the next blog post:
Installing Horizon View Connection Server 6.2.2 (Standard Server)
Installing Horizon View Composer Server 6.2.2

Thanks,
Aresh

Installing Horizon View Composer Server 6.2.2

16 Feb

In this blog post I will be capturing the steps involved in the installation of Composer Servers. The post is mainly for people who want to have a glance at the installation steps for Horizon 6 View Composer Server 6.2.2 – Build Number: 3505505

View experts please skip this post, if you are already familiar with the steps

Installation of Horizon View Composer Server

Step 1: Click on ‘Start’ search for the ‘ODBC Data Sources (64 bit)’

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Step 2: Click ‘System DSN’ and select “Add’

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Step 3: Select ‘SQL Server’ and click ‘Finish’

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Step 4: Enter the ‘Name’, ‘Description’ and SQL Server ‘FQDN’ for the Composer Database. Note: Make sure you have pre-created the Composer DB on the SQL Server.

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Step 5: Select the ‘SQL Server authentication’ and enter the local SQL Server account ‘Login ID’ and ‘Password’

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Step 6: Select ‘Change the default DB’ and select the Composer Database from the drop-down list

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Step 7: Leave the default and click on ‘Finish’

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Step 8: Click on ‘Test Data Source’ and select ‘OK’ Make sure you see ‘Tested Successfully’

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Step 9: Click ‘Ok’

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Step 10: Right click on the Composer Server package and select ‘Run as Administrator’

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Step 11: Click on ‘Next’.

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Step 12: Click on ‘I accept the terms in the license agreement’ and select ‘Next’

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Step 13: Leave the installation in the default directory and select ‘Next

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Step 14: Enter the details of the DSN previously created and click on ‘Next’

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Step 15: Leave the default port and click on ‘Next’

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Step 16: Click on ‘Install’ to begin installing Composer Server

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Step 17: Click on ‘Finish’

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Step 18: It will prompt you to restart the Composer Server VM. Select ‘Yes’

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Checkout the next blog post:
Installing Horizon View Connection Server 6.2.2 (Standard Server)
Installing Horizon View Connection Server 6.2.2 (Replica Server)

Thanks,
Aresh

Installing Horizon View Connection Server 6.2.2 (Standard Server)

16 Feb

In this blog post I will be capturing the steps involved in the installation of first Connection Servers aka Standard Server. This post is mainly for people who want to glance the installation steps for Horizon 6 View Connection Server (64 bit) 6.2.2 – Build Number: 3508079

View experts please skip this post, if you are already familiar with the steps.

Installation of the First (Standard Server) Horizon 6.2.2 Connection Server

Step1: Right click on the Connection Server package and select ‘Run as Administrator’

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Step 2: Click on ‘Next’. The version number show’s as ‘6.2.2’

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Step 3: Click on ‘I accept the terms in the license agreement’ and select ‘Next’

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Step 4: Leave the installation in the default directory and select ‘Next

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Step 5: As this is the first Connection Server of the environment select ‘Horizon 6 Standard Server’ and ‘Install HTML Access’. ‘IPv4’ is selected by default and click on ‘Next’

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Step 6: Enter the super secret password for recover the backup’s and select ‘Next’

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Step 7: Click ‘Configure Windows Firewall automatically’ and select ‘Next’

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Step 8: Enter the group name in ‘domainname\groupname’ format and select ‘Next’

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Step 9: If you may want to participate in the UEIP program, select ‘Participate’ and click ‘Next’

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Step 10: Click on ‘Install’ to begin installing Connection Server

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Step 11: Uncheck ‘Show the readme files’ and click on ‘Finish’

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Step 12: On your desktop there will be an Icon ‘Horizon 6 Administrator’

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Step 13: Enter the ‘Username’ and ‘Password’

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Step 14: Check the version in About 6.2.2

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Checkout the next blog post:
Installing Horizon View Connection Server 6.2.2 (Replica Server)
Installing Horizon View Composer Server 6.2.2

Thanks,
Aresh