The folders view is a display of managed computers separated by their parent folders in the organization tree. This is useful in case you would like to see aggregated measures for computers located in the same folder. For example, if you would like to see how many user sessions are active in your RDS farm, you can place all RDS in one folder and look at the “Total Active User Sessions” column for that folder’s row.
All the folders and subfolders are presented in a flat hierarchy, so you can see aggregated performance and data for any folder in the organization.
Hypervisor folders
The Hypervisor folder is where all hypervisor connections are created and maintained. From the top-level Hypervisors folder, you can add either more hypervisor folders (to help organize your management of your hypervisor environment and for security policy purposes) or add a hypervisor connection. All objects in the hypervisor folders branch of the tree are treated as regular folders in the Information Grid, and therefore show up in the Folders View the same as regular ControlUp folders.
Because of this new type of folder and additional information that comes from the hypervisors, there are new columns that are specific to a virtualization environment. Non-hypervisor folders will have “N/A” in these columns.
Folders View Hypervisor Columns Reference
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Avg. Host CPU |
Avg. percentage of CPU on all virtualization hosts in the folder |
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Avg. Host Memory Usage |
Avg. percentage of memory usage on all virtualization hosts in the folder |
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Hypervisor Platform |
The hypervisor platform of hosts in this folder |
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Source |
The data collector agent that is collecting information for this folder |
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Stress Distribution Columns |
The stress levels (Low, Medium, High, Critical) now include the new types of records, Hosts and Unmanaged VMs. |
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Unmanaged VMs |
Total number of unmanaged VMs |
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Virtualization hosts |
Total number of hosts |
Folders View Column Reference
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Avg. App Load Time |
Average load time for selected user-mode applications running on all computers in the folder, as defined in App Load Time tab of the Settings window |
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Avg. Logon Duration |
The average logon duration for all user sessions currently established on all computers in the folder. |
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Average Sessions per Computer |
The average number of user sessions (including System and Console sessions) per computer in the folder. |
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Computers |
The total number of computers in the folder (including computers which are currently disconnected, down or otherwise inaccessible). |
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Computers CPU |
Average percentage of CPU consumed on all managed computers in this folder |
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Connected Computers |
The total number of computers with active ControlUp agent communication. |
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Description |
A free-text description which will be seen by other members of your team |
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Disconnected Computers |
The total number of computers for which ControlUp agent communication is currently inactive. |
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Folder Path |
Location of the folder in the organization tree. |
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Hosts |
Total number of virtualization hosts |
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Hosts CPU |
Average percentage of CPU consumed on all virtualization hosts in this folder |
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Hosts Memory |
Average percentage of memory utilized on all virtualization hosts in this folder |
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Information Source |
Name of the hypervisor data collector |
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Max Sessions per Computer |
The maximum number of sessions (including Console and Services sessions) currently established on a single connected computer in the folder. |
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Min Sessions per Computer |
The minimum number of sessions (including Console and Services sessions) currently established on a single connected computer in the folder. |
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Name |
A free text name of the folder |
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Page Faults/sec |
The average of the current reading from the Page Faults/sec counter on all connected computers in the folder. |
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Processes |
The total number of processes running on all connected computers in the folder. |
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Sessions |
The total number of sessions (including Console and Services sessions) currently established on all computers in the folder. |
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Stress Distribution Columns |
The Folders view includes a column for every stress level (Low, Medium, High, Critical) and type of record (Computers, Sessions, Processes). |
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Stress Level |
An aggregated value resulting from the stress indicators as configured in the Stress Settings pane. |
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Unmanaged VMs |
Total number of unmanaged VMs (virtual machines with no ControlUp agent installed) |
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User Sessions |
The total number of user sessions currently established on all computers in the folder. |
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XD % Available Computers |
Percentage of available XenDesktop computers |
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XD % Available Delivery Groups |
Percentage of available XenDesktop Delivery Groups |
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XD % Available Desktops |
Percentage of the available XenDesktop computers, out of the total number of computers in the desktop group |
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XD % Healthy Brokers |
Percentage of available XenDesktop brokers |
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XD Agentless Computers |
Total number of XenDesktop Machines who are still unmanaged |
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XD Available Computers |
The number of desktop computers in the XenDesktop delivery group in "Available" state |
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XD Average Logon Duration |
Average logon duration for all computers the XenDesktop delivery group |
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XD Computers |
Total number of computers in the XenDesktop delivery group |
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XD Computers In Use |
The number of published desktops currently in use in the XenDesktop delivery group |
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XD Delivery Group Availability |
Indicates whether the XenDesktop delivery group is available (enabled, not in maintenance mode and has available computers) |
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XD Delivery Group Enabled |
Specifies whether the XenDesktop delivery group is enabled (shown to users) |
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XD Delivery Groups |
Total number of Delivery Groups |
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XD Delivery Type |
The type of resources published in the XenDesktop delivery group (desktops only, apps only or desktops and apps) |
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XD Desktop Kind |
The kind of desktops published in the XenDesktop delivery group (Private or Shared) |
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XD Disconnected Sessions |
The number of published desktops with disconnected user sessions in the XenDesktop delivery group |
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XD Failed Computers |
Count of XenDesktop computers in "Unregistered", "Stuck on Boot" or other failed states |
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XD Is Remote PC |
Specifies whether the computers in the XenDesktop delivery group are personal published desktops with a VDA agent for remote access |
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XD Maintenance Mode |
Specifies whether the XenDesktop delivery group is in maintenance mode |
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XD Never Registered Computers |
The number of published desktops that never registered in the XenDesktop delivery group |
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XD Preparing Computers |
The number of published desktops in the XenDesktop delivery group whose PvD disk image is being prepared |
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XD Published Applications |
The total number of published applications in the XenDesktop delivery group |
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XD Session Support |
Specifies the session support (single/multi) of the machines in the XenDesktop delivery group. Computers with the incorrect session support for the desktop group will be unable to register with the Citrix Broker Service |
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XD Site Name |
For a XenDesktop computer, the name of the XenDesktop Site |
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XD Unregistered Computers |
The number of published desktops in the XenDesktop delivery group that are currently unregistered |
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XD User Connection Failures Per Hour |
Rate of failed user connections to XenDesktop in the last hour |
Folders View Actions
Besides browsing, searching, grouping and sorting the data, this view allows you to perform a variety of actions on the selected folders(s).
These actions are available when selecting a folder or a group of folders. They can be invoked using either the Ribbon Bar “Actions” button, the context menu (right-click), or the Actions Panel.
Connect
Contact the ControlUp Agent on all managed computers in the selected folder(s) and start gathering performance data.
Disconnect
Close the connection to the ControlUp agent on all managed computers in the selected folder(s).
Flush DNS
Clears the DNS client cache (ipconfig /flushdns) on all managed computers in the selected folder(s).
Send Message
This action allows administrators to send a plain text message to all the users on all managed computers in the selected folder(s).
Send Super Message
This action allows administrators to send an enhanced message to all the users on all managed computers in the selected folder(s).. This action can be useful when conveying an important message to the end users and gathering the users’ feedback (for example when testing a recent software fix). The message can be configured:
1. To include rich-text formatting and graphics
2. To close the message automatically when a configured timeout has elapsed
3. To stay on top of all other user’s windows
4. To not allow the user to close the message window
5. To allow the user to respond to the message:
6. To use pre-configured reply buttons (such as Yes;No or OK;Cancel)
7. To allow free text replies
If the user response option is enabled, a window will open displaying all of the users’ feedback gathered by the Super Message.
Refresh Machine Group Policy
This action triggers a Group Policy update on all managed computers in the selected folder(s) using Windows built-in gpupdate.exe utility. You can manipulate the “Force” and “Timeout” parameters using the action window.
Import Registry
Allows for importing a .reg file to the registry of all managed computers in the selected folder(s).
Disable process execution
This action prevents processes with the configured file name from being executed on all managed computers in the selected folder(s). This action can be useful for preventing a program from being run during upgrades or software maintenance.
You are advised to use extreme caution when preventing process execution, since this action affects all users on all managed computers in the selected folder(s) and the execution block will be enforced until explicitly removed using the “Enable Process Execution” action.
It is important to provide the end user who might try to run a disabled process with an explanation that will appear on his/her screen. Using the action’s built in text message capability you can provide such explanation.
Enable Process Execution
This action cancels the “Disable Process Execution” action on all managed computers in the selected folder(s). You may choose to remove all existing execution blocks previously set on all managed computers or configure a specific process name to be unblocked.
Run As
This action allows you to launch a process on all managed computers in the selected folder(s). You can run any executable that is accessible on the managed computer(s). If using a command-line expression or a batch file, please prepend “cmd.exe /c ” to your command.
Note: processes started using this action are executed in session 0 using Local System and are not visible to the users working on the target computer(s). For executing interactive processes, use the “Start Process in Session” action described in the Sessions View chapter.
Hypervisor Folders View Actions
Unlike regular ControlUp folders, there are no actions that can be taken on the hypervisor folders themselves except for viewing related incidents in the Incidents database.
