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Citrix Access Suite is the most complete solution available for providing secure, ondemand access to any business information resource from anywhere, with any device,
over any network. The Access Suite unifies the key access points, capabilities and
technologies in a single solution that eliminates the disadvantages of using individual
access products from different vendors.
Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:
Access Infrastructure
The access infrastructure market is fast-growing and highly dynamic. Continued
customer investment in the component technologies of access infrastructure is expected
to grow annually with a combined market opportunity of $17.4 billion in 2005, which
will increase to $21.9 billion by 2007. Endeavoring to make access as easy as a phone
call, the Citrix business strategy will touch many key technologies of access
infrastructure, including:
Citrix Access Infrastructure Technologies
SSL/VPN Software
Security 3A Solutions
Conferencing Applications
Mobile Infrastructure
VoIP Access
More than 230 software vendors claim to offer access products and services in
these technology categories, but Citrix is the only company focused specifically on
access infrastructure offerings.
Citrix SmartAccess
Sense and respond to any access scenario for
tailored secure access control.
Citrix SmoothRoaming
Deliver continuous access across devices,
networks and locations for maximum mobility.
breed technologies
from each of the
categories that make
up access infrastructure.
With piece-part solutions, customers cannot effectively use the full investment they will
make in each piece. Simply put, the cost of buying separate pieces is not justifiable. What
differentiates Citrixs offering are the resulting capabilities that are made possible only by
the integrated offering that is the Citrix Access Suite.
An Integrated Solution
The Citrix Access Suite combines the following Citrix products into one integrated
solution:
Citrix Presentation Server The market-leading application virtualization server that
centralizes and standardizes the deployment of any application Windows-,
UNIX- or Web-based and enables their delivery to any user, from any device,
over any connection, anywhere. As a key component of the Citrix Access Suite,
Presentation Server enables applications and information resources as centrally
managed IT services.
Citrix Access Gateway The easiest and most cost-effective SSL VPN that provides
secure access to critical business resources from anywhere. As a key component
of the Citrix Access Suite, Access Gateway is a key enabler of Citrix SmartAccess
the unique ability to sense and respond to any user access scenario with tailored
secure access to applications and information resources dynamically adjusted to
their device, connection and location.
Citrix Password Manager The elegantly simple single sign-on solution that
simplifies user access to password-protected applications running on their local
PC or hosted on Citrix Presentation Server. Password Manager works hand-inhand with Access Gateway to protect corporate information assets by forcing
users to create strong passwords, then managing them to maintain ease-of-access.
Every business objective has corresponding access requirements for IT. Todays CIO
must support CEO initiatives quickly and with minimal cost. For example:
Dynamically adjusts access by re-factoring the user interface, filtering applications and
information and enabling secure and reliable mobility.
Increases the efficiency and security of access and the quality of the user experience
regardless of their device, location or connection through a single point of access, easy
single sign-on and multi-factor authentication support.
This is a key user function of SmoothRoaming and Integrated Identity Management.
Unified framework for client and server configuration, licensing, monitoring, and
reporting tools for administrative simplicity, business visibility and corporate security.
This is a key function of End-to-End Visibility
Rapid Provisioning
Enable and deliver IT services to users by simply managing user accounts and group
membership. Easily and quickly add and remove user access.
This is the key administrative function of Integrated Identity Management.
Architectural Security
Module Two:
Common Management Tasks Overview
Simplifying the overall management of the Citrix Access Suite is the goal of the common
management platform. When similar tasks performed across products can be performed
in a common platform, administrators are able to be more productive and more efficient.
Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:
In addition, nodes are also created by some Access Suite Console snap-ins when they are
installed. Some snap-ins are not visible as nodes in the console tree but they add features,
such as extra tasks, to other snap-ins.
Summary:
Common Management Tasks Overview
You have completed Module Two. As you continue this course, please keep in mind the
following points:
The Access Suite common management platform consists of the Access Suite
Console and the License Management Console.
Together, these consoles centralize and organize most administrative and
management tasks.
Explain the general steps for installing the Access Suite Console
Describe how the Access Suite Console can be modified and how it can be used
with multiple products installed
Describe common management tasks performed using the Access Suite Console
Run Discovery
The Access Suite Console is designed to manage Citrix Access Suite products installed in
the environment. Before a product can be managed, its components must be located and
added to the console using the Run Discovery process. Once the components are
discovered, an administrator is able to see and perform the associated management and
reporting functions.
The administrator must perform a Run Discovery when:
A new product is installed in the environment
The Access Suite Console is installed on a new server or workstation.
Run Discovery is a required step after installation of each product, even when the
console is installed on the same product server.
Click here to practice the run discovery process
in Presentation Server.
Alerts
Lists the alerts created by all the items in a Presentation Server deployment.
Licensing
Launches the License Management Console to manage licenses for most Citrix
Access Suite products. (For more information about the License Management
Console, see Modules Four and Five.)
Explain the steps to install the Citrix License Server and the License Management
Console.
Describe how to allocate, install and configure licenses from an organizations
entitlement.
Summarize the common licensing concepts for all Citrix Access Suite products.
Recommendation
Fewer than 50
Between 50-100
More than 500
An Access Suite Licensing administrator must consider a variety of other factors when
planning a license server deployment, including who needs access to the server, user
patterns in multi-farm environments and more. For large or complex Access Suite
deployments, Citrix recommends that administrators review the latest Access Suite
Licensing Guide prior to installation.
License Server Installation: Overview
To license an Access Suite product, an administrator must complete the following basic
tasks:
1. Install the License Server and the License Management Console
2. Connect to MyCitrix.com to download license files.
3. Copy the license file to the License Server.
4. Configure product-side licensing communication settings that were not set during
product installation, if applicable.
Citrix recommends the License Server be installed and have valid licenses on it
before beginning any individual product installation. Product setup programs may
require the license server name during installation.
License Management Console installation is not required for proper operation of the
License Server. Without the console, the License Server can be managed with commandline tools known as the license administration commands. However, it is not possible to
generate licensing reports without using the console. Citrix recommends installing the
License Management Console with each license server.
Install the License Server and the License Management Console
To install the License Server and the License Management Console, log on to to server
using a domain account that is also a member of the local Administrators group. Each
product CD will have the licensing installation option available from the autorun.
Most typical installations of the License Server will use the default installation options.
Review the Access Suite Licensing Guide for additional details. Note that License files
and license server software must be stored on the same drive. By default, license files are
stored in:
C:\Program Files\Citrix\Licensing\MyFiles\
Licensing Models
The license model defines the way in which a product consumes licenses and can
influence the number of licenses users consume when they connect to an Access Suite
product. The type of licensing model a product employs determines the number of
licenses required to license it, and is established by Citrix at time of sale. Citrix Access
Suite products use two types of licensing models:
Concurrent User. Different users can share concurrent user (CCU) licenses,
provided the users are using the product at different times. Since CCU licenses are
not tied to a specific user name, when a user disconnects or logs off, the license
they had been assigned is returned to the pool of available licenses so it can be
assigned to another user.
Named User. A named user license provides one license for each user. After a
user takes a named user license from the license pool, it remains assigned to that
user even when the user is not connected.
Concurrent User licensing is the most common model used for Citrix products.
Named User licensing is an option on some products. Please consult the Access
Suite Licensing Guide for more details.
Additional Licensing Concepts (cont.)
Different Connections Consume Licenses Differently
When analyzing the number of licenses required in an organizations environment, an
administrator must consider whether or not users employ multiple types of clients to
connect to product servers. For example, users connecting to product servers using a
Presentation Server Client and a Remote Desktop session simultaneously consume
multiple licenses. The license server considers Remote Desktop Connections as separate
from the Presentation Server Client connections and, even though the connection may be
from the same user, the product server consumes two licenses.
Securing the Licensing Directories and Console
Citrix recommends that administrators restrict the Citrix licensing directory, C:\Program
Files\Citrix\Licensing, to administrator-only access, especially on license servers that are
shared with Presentation Server. In addition, Citrix recommends running licensing under
an account dedicated to this purpose (that is, a services account).
If there are multiple users for the License Management Console or if administrators will
be logging on to the License Management Console from other workstations on the
organizations network, Citrix recommends that the web server for the License
Management Console be configured to use SSL and S-HTTP.
Summary:
Installing and Configuring Access Suite Licenses
You have completed Module Four. As you continue this course, please keep in mind the
following points:
All Citrix Access Suite 4.0 applications require proper licensing implementation
in order to accept user connections.
License files must be generated and downloaded from MyCitrix.com.
Subscription Advantage program membership provides major and minor releases
downloads through the MyCitrix web site.
Additional resources for this module are available in the downloadable course PDF file.
See the Conclusion Module for details.
Module Five:
Distinguish tasks that can only be performed in the License Management Console.
Identify common parts of the this console.
Explain the steps required to perform various management and tracking tasks.
Managing Licenses
The License Management Console allows an administrator to maintain the License
Server and manage license files for that server. The console software must be installed on
the same machine as the License Server. However, administrators can launch the License
Management Console directly through the Access Suite Console or remotely through
a Web browser.
Using the License Management Console, an administrator is able to:
With historical usage reports, administrators can view license availability and
consumption information over time. Used together with Current Usage information, these
reports can help an administrator foresee problems.
Create and view alerts based on license usage and expiration dates
Two types of alerts are available: warnings for when license usage starts to approach the
limit (number of licenses owned) and reminders to renew Subscription Advantage
memberships.
An administrator can provide additional users with access to the License Management
Console and specify permissions on an account-by-account basis. When a user account is
created, the accounts user permissions can be set for the four major areas of the console:
current usage, historical reporting, configuration and user administration.
A License Management Console is associated with the specific License Server on
which it is installed.
The Access Suite Console can provide links to multiple License Servers consoles, but
each server is managed only through its own console.
Each of the four types of administrative tasks is available from the main menu at the top
of every page in the console. Many pages have additional help available from the Help
button in the upper right corner of the menu.
Clicking on a sub-menu displays the information or forms specific to that menu. Some
examples of using these menus are in this module. More specific information and
additional examples are available in the Access Suite Licensing Guide.
The License Management Console provides real-time license usage information. For
example, an administrator needs to determine how many licenses are currently in use for
Presentation Server and whether or not the organizations Subscription Advantage
membership is still current. By opening the License Management Console to the Current
Usage page, the administrator can determine this information quickly and easily. When
tracking real-time license usage, an administrator can view the following information:
Product description of licenses
Product licensing model
License type (retail, evaluation or not for resale)
Total number of connections licensed to the product
The number of licenses in use
The number of licenses available for use
Percentage of licenses in use
Subscription Advantage expiration date
License expiration date (The majority of licenses do not expire. An exception
to this rule is an Evaluation license, which expires after 90 days.)
Tracking Historical License Usage with Reports
Because the license server rejects requests for licenses when the number of licenses on
the license server is exceeded, Citrix recommends administrators anticipate new users
and purchase licenses for them during quarterly or annual purchasing. Reports created to
show license availability and consumption information over time are known as historical
reports. By running reports over a quarter, for example, an administrator can evaluate if
license consumption is increasing. The License Management Console provides the ability
to choose the type of product, date range, summary period, and data type to use in the
report.
Historical reports are based on report logs, the encoded record of license usage generated
by the license server. The process of generating product or summary reports includes
choosing one or more report logs upon which to base the report. An administrator can
generate two types of reports in the License Management Console:
Summary Report
Compares license utilization across all products
Product Report
Specific to the product type and licensing model
The report logging feature must be activated before an administrator can
generate any historical reports. Report logging is turned off by default.
The License Management Console provides passive alerts for the following situations:
Percent in Use
When an organizations license usage is close to exceeding the threshold for the
number of licenses available on a license server.
Subscription Advantage
When a Subscription Advantage membership is due for renewal.
All alerts have two levels of severity, critical and warning, and all alerts can be
customized to set the threshold at which alerts are generated. The License Management
Console displays alerts in the Current Usage section in an alerts box and in the % In Use
column of the data table. Data is displayed in these sections only when an alert threshold
is reached.
License Management Console Current Usage alerts do not update
automatically. To update the data, click Refresh.
(For users of licenses with an expiration date, such as Technology Preview, Early
Adopters and Developers Edition licenses, alerts are also generated when licenses are
about to expire.)
Configuring Delegated Administrators
As the key tool in managing an organization's licenses, administrators can allow
additional users to access the License Management Console and specify permissions on
an account-by-account basis. During installation, the License Management Console
creates a default administrator account based on the current credentials used to log on to
the license server machine.
The default administrator account can create new user accounts for the License
Management Console. These accounts can be granted full administrative access, or
restricted to specific areas of the console, as needed. Administrators can set user
permissions for the four major areas of the console: current usage, historical reporting,
configuration and user administration. In addition, administrators can control which tasks
console users can perform and which features are visible.
At least one administrator must have full access to the License Management
Console at all times or the console locks all users out.
You have completed Module Five. As you complete this course, please keep in mind the
following points:
The License Management Console must be installed on the same machine as the
License Server, but it can be launched through the Access Suite Console or
remotely through a Web browser.
The License Management Console is the only tool an administrator can use to
view license usage in real-time and also generate historical license usage reports.
An administrator can grant users limited rights to the License Management
Console as a way of delegating various tasks to other.