Query current host status via CLI
list Al Jeffcoat
Hello All, One of my Intel admins has asked if there is a way to determine the total number of citrix sessions in use using hobbit. We are currently using the citrix plug-in, but he would like the same information displayed as a total for the farm. I'm sure there are ways within windows to do this, but I am not a windows admin. I know that I could easily to this from the command line in many ways. My three questions are: 1. Is anyone already doing this? 2. Is there a way from the command line on the hobbit server to determine the most current status for a hobbit client? My thought was to scrape the include file for the citrix servers in question, feed it to a for loop, and then query the status, and then just count up the logged in clients. I've looked in the files in ~/data, and do not see current status messages there. 3. Can anyone think of a better way than in question #2, assuming I can get the most current status message via CLI? Thanks, Al This e-mail message and any attached files are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, use, or distribution of this e-mail message and any attached files is strictly prohibited. This communication may contain material protected by Federal privacy regulations, attorney-client work product, or other privileges. If you have received this confidential communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail message and permanently delete the original message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to: user-ecde3bbc361d@xymon.invalid . If this e-mail message concerns a contract matter, be advised that no employee or agent is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of Orlando Regional Healthcare by e-mail without express written confirmation by an officer of the corporation. Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Orlando Regional Healthcare.
list Al Jeffcoat
Found the solution, although I’m sure there are easier methods. I used curl to scrape the number of users from each citrix server, and added them as the script went along. Fortunately, making a fake host using noconn, and then naming the test citrix (which matches the real citrix test coming from the individual servers) was all I had to do, hobbit is now generating a graph. Al
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From: Jeffcoat, Al
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 10:17 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Query current host status via CLI
Hello All,
One of my Intel admins has asked if there is a way to determine the total number of citrix sessions in use using hobbit. We are currently using the citrix plug-in, but he would like the same information displayed as a total for the farm. I’m sure there are ways within windows to do this, but I am not a windows admin. I know that I could easily to this from the command line in many ways.
My three questions are:
1. Is anyone already doing this?
2. Is there a way from the command line on the hobbit server to determine the most current status for a hobbit client? My thought was to scrape the include file for the citrix servers in question, feed it to a for loop, and then query the status, and then just count up the logged in clients. I’ve looked in the files in ~/data, and do not see current status messages there.
3. Can anyone think of a better way than in question #2, assuming I can get the most current status message via CLI?
Thanks,
Al
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list Henrik Størner
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 10:16:38AM -0400, Jeffcoat, Al wrote:
One of my Intel admins has asked if there is a way to determine the total number of citrix sessions in use using hobbit. We are currently using the citrix plug-in, but he would like the same information displayed as a total for the farm. I'm sure there are ways within windows to do this, but I am not a windows admin. I know that I could easily to this from the command line in many ways. 1. Is anyone already doing this?
Yes. You can use the command bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard test=citrix fields=msg" then search each line of output for the string "NNN users active" and sum up the NNN values. I have some rather ugly C code to do it, but I'm sure it can easily be done in Perl if you know how.
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2. Is there a way from the command line on the hobbit server to determine the most current status for a hobbit client?
"hobbitdboard" command as above if you want the status for many hosts, "hobbitdlog host=HOSTNAME test=TESTNAME" if you want just a single status. Regards, Henrik
list Andy France
"Jeffcoat, Al" wrote on 07/09/2006 08:12:50 a.m.:
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Found the solution, although I’m sure there are easier methods. I used curl to scrape the number of users from each citrix server, and added them as the script went along. Fortunately, making a fake host using noconn, and then naming the test citrix (which matches the real citrix test coming from the individual servers) was all I had to do, hobbit is now generating a graph. Al
user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid (Henrik Stoerner) wrote on 07/09/2006 09:32:26 p.m.:
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You can use the command bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard test=citrix fields=msg" then search each line of output for the string "NNN users active" and sum up the NNN values. I have some rather ugly C code to do it, but I'm sure it can easily be done in Perl if you know how.
A Citrix Farm summary is something I've thought about for ages - so thanks
to both of you for the push to finally get a script done!
I've created dummy entries for both of our Citrix farms, and have the
"citrix" test pages generated with the "X users active" text showing, but
I'm not getting any RRD files and I'm getting a "broken image" for my
citrix graph.
Is there anything else I should have to do?
Cheers,
Andy.
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list Henrik Størner
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On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 01:34:06PM +1200, Andy France wrote:
A Citrix Farm summary is something I've thought about for ages - so thanks to both of you for the push to finally get a script done! I've created dummy entries for both of our Citrix farms, and have the "citrix" test pages generated with the "X users active" text showing, but I'm not getting any RRD files and I'm getting a "broken image" for my citrix graph.
The parser looks for the string "<newline>N users active<newline>" so make sure you dont have any tabs, spaces or anything else in front of (or after) the line with the user-count. Henrik
list Andy France
Henrik Stoerner wrote on 11/09/2006 06:48:12 p.m.:
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On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 01:34:06PM +1200, Andy France wrote:A Citrix Farm summary is something I've thought about for ages - so thanks to both of you for the push to finally get a script done! I've created dummy entries for both of our Citrix farms, and have the "citrix" test pages generated with the "X users active" text showing, but I'm not getting any RRD files and I'm getting a "broken image" for my citrix graph.The parser looks for the string "<newline>N users active<newline>" so make sure you dont have any tabs, spaces or anything else in front of (or after) the line with the user-count. Henrik
Aha! It was the trailing newline that I needed to add to my script. I now have a lovely graph showing 0 users logged into my 5 server farm ;) I'll let the slackers off seeing as it's 2035 local time. Excellent service as usual Henrik - Thank You Very Much!
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list Enrico Morigi
hi, where can i download the citrix plugin to get the users sessions? thanks enrico
list Al Jeffcoat
There's a file in the contrib directory of the source distribution file called citrix.zip. We are using it with the bbwin client. Al
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From: Enrico Morigi [mailto:user-e71d55725ae4@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 8:49 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Query current host status via CLI
hi,
where can i download the citrix plugin to get the users sessions?
thanks
enrico
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list John A. Milburn
This is what we are using. It runs on one of the Citrix servers. The
others don't collect farm data.
It's not real pretty, but it does what we need.
BEGIN
'*******************************************************************
'*******************************************************************
'*******************************************************************
'***********************************************************************
***
'
' VBScript Source File
'
' NAME: CITRIXALL.VBS
'
' AUTHOR: John A. Milburn
' DATE : 02/04/05
'
'
'***********************************************************************
***
Option Explicit
'***********************************************************************
***
Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2
Public Const wbemFlagReturnImmediately = &h10
Public Const wbemFlagForwardOnly = &h20
'On Error Resume Next
Dim strComputer
strComputer = "."
Dim strFileOut, blArgs
Dim lngResult, lngUsersOnFarm
lngResult = 0
strFileOut = "-ctxinfo"
Dim fso
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If fso.FileExists(strFileOut) Then
fso.DeleteFile(strFileOut)
End If
Set fso = Nothing
lngUsersOnFarm = GetFarmUsers(strComputer)
lngResult = GetCitrixInfo(strComputer)
WScript.Quit lngResult
'***********************************************************************
***
'***********************************************************************
***
'***********************************************************************
***
'***********************************************************************
***
'***********************************************************************
***
' Function name: GetCitrixInfo
' Parameters:
'
'***********************************************************************
***
Function GetCitrixInfo(strComputer)
'***********************************************************************
***
' On Error Resume Next
Dim strFarmName, strIPAddress, strLoginsEnabled,
strNumberOfActiveSessions
Dim strNumberOfDisconnectedSessions, strNumberOfSessions,
strServerName
Dim strServerType, strZoneName, strZoneRanking
Dim objWMIService, colItems, objItem
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer &
"\root\Citrix")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM
MetaFrame_Server", "WQL", _
wbemFlagReturnImmediately +
wbemFlagForwardOnly)
Dim strOut
strOut = ""
For Each objItem In colItems
strFarmName = objItem.FarmName
strIPAddress = objItem.IPAddress
strLoginsEnabled = objItem.LoginsEnabled
strNumberOfActiveSessions = objItem.NumberOfActiveSessions
strNumberOfDisconnectedSessions =
objItem.NumberOfDisconnectedSessions
strNumberOfSessions = objItem.NumberOfSessions
strServerName = objItem.ServerName
strServerType = objItem.ServerType
strZoneName = objItem.ZoneName
strZoneRanking = objItem.ZoneRanking
Next
Set objItem = Nothing
Set colItems = Nothing
Set objWMIService = Nothing
strZoneName = Right(strZoneName, Len(strZoneName) -
(InStr(strZoneName, Chr(34))))
strZoneName = Left(strZoneName, (InStr(strZoneName, Chr(34)) - 1))
strOut = strOut & "Farm Name : " & strFarmName & vbLf
strOut = strOut & "Farm users : " & CStr(lngUsersOnFarm) & vbLf
strOut = strOut & "IP Address : " & strIPAddress & vbLf
strOut = strOut & "Logins Enabled : " & strLoginsEnabled & vbLf
strOut = strOut & "Sessions" & vbLf
strOut = strOut & " Active : " & strNumberOfActiveSessions &
vbLf
strOut = strOut & " Disconnected : " &
strNumberOfDisconnectedSessions & vbLf
strOut = strOut & " Total : " & strNumberOfSessions & vbLf
strOut = strOut & "Server Type : " & strServerType & vbLf
strOut = strOut & "Zone Name : " & strZoneName & vbLf
strOut = strOut & "Zone Ranking : " & strZoneRanking & vbLf
strOut = strOut & vbLf
strOut = strOut & strNumberOfActiveSessions & " users active" & vbLf
strOut = strOut & vbLf
' WScript.Echo strOut
Dim fso, objFileOut
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Dim blRed, blYellow, blGreen
blRed = False
blYellow = False
blGreen = True
'Set warning and error
If strNumberOfActiveSessions > 20 Then
blYellow = True
End If
If strNumberOfActiveSessions > 25 Then
blRed = True
End If
Set objFileOut = fso.OpenTextFile(strFileOut, ForWriting, True)
If blRed Then
objFileOut.WriteLine "red Citrix Server Information"
Else
If blyellow Then
objFileOut.WriteLine "yellow Citrix Server Information"
Else
objFileOut.WriteLine "green Citrix Server Information"
End If
End If
objFileOut.WriteLine ""
objFileOut.WriteLine strOut
objFileOut.WriteLine ""
objFileOut.Close
Set fso = Nothing
GetCitrixInfo = -1
Exit Function
End Function
'***********************************************************************
***
'***********************************************************************
***
Function GetFarmUsers(strComputer)
'Server:
\\COSTERMSERV3\root\Citrix:Citrix_Server.ServerName="D8TERMSERV1"
'Zone: \\COSTERMSERV3\root\Citrix:Citrix_Zone.ZoneName="D8"
'***********************************************************************
***
Dim lngUserCount, objWMIService, colItems, objItem
Dim strThisServer, lngPtr, strThisComputer
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer &
"\root\Citrix")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM
Citrix_ServersInZone", "WQL", _
wbemFlagReturnImmediately +
wbemFlagForwardOnly)
For Each objItem In colItems
strThisServer = objItem.Server
lngPtr = InStr(strThisServer, "=") + 2
strThisComputer = Mid(strThisServer, lngPtr, (Len(strThisServer) -
lngPtr))
lngUserCount = lngUserCount + GetUsersOnServer(strThisComputer)
Next
Set objItem = Nothing
Set colItems = Nothing
Set objWMIService = Nothing
GetFarmUsers = lngUserCount
End Function
'***********************************************************************
***
'***********************************************************************
***
Function GetUsersOnServer(strThisComputer)
'***********************************************************************
***
Dim objWMIService, colItems, objItem, lngNumberOfSessions
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strThisComputer &
"\root\Citrix")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM
MetaFrame_Server", "WQL", _
wbemFlagReturnImmediately +
wbemFlagForwardOnly)
For Each objItem In colItems
' lngNumberOfSessions = CLng(objItem.NumberOfSessions)
lngNumberOfSessions = CLng(objItem.NumberOfActiveSessions)
' lngNumberOfSessions = CLng(objItem.NumberOfDisconnectedSessions)
' lngNumberOfSessions = CLng(objItem.NumberOfSessions)
Next
Set objItem = Nothing
Set colItems = Nothing
Set objWMIService = Nothing
GetUsersOnServer = lngNumberOfSessions
End Function
'***********************************************************************
***
'*******************************************************************
'*******************************************************************
'*******************************************************************
END
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffcoat, Al [mailto:user-eca780a472ed@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:59 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Query current host status via CLI
There's a file in the contrib directory of the source distribution file
called citrix.zip. We are using it with the bbwin client.
Al
-----Original Message-----
From: Enrico Morigi [mailto:user-e71d55725ae4@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 8:49 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Query current host status via CLI
hi,
where can i download the citrix plugin to get the users sessions?
thanks
enrico
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