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Appendixes

A. The Future of Citrix in a Microsoft .NET World Many people wonder about the future of Citrix and the future of MetaFrame XP. The future is always uncertain, but this uncertainty is heightened by Microsoft's .NET strategy. How will Citrix and MetaFrame...

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MetaFrame XP Backup Strategies

By focusing on high availability, your environment will be able to survive the small day-to-day events that occur. Your backup strategy will kick in when there is a major disaster or component failure. Focus your backups on the unique data. Since there...

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MetaFrame XP High Availability Strategies

Your users have one objective-to access their applications. They don't care about uptime percentages or system backups or server hot-swap components. They just know that when they click the button, their application had better start loading. It's...

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Ensuring Availability and System Redundancy

The final component of your MetaFrame XP environment that you need to consider is how to ensure that it is sufficiently available and reliable. By thinking about how MetaFrame XP works and how your users will use it, you can create a strategy to guarantee...

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Citrix Network Manager

MetaFrame XPe's Network Manager allows you to view various statistics of your MetaFrame XPe servers with third party SNMP management applications, including Tivoli NetView, HP OpenView, and if you have Feature Release 1, CA Unicenter. Citrix Network...

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Citrix Resource Manager

In your day-to-day management of your MetaFrame XPe environment, Citrix Resource Manager will be one of your most valuable tools. Resource Manager (RM) serves three purposes: Real time monitoring of MetaFrame XPe servers. Historic reports containing information...

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Periodic Farm Maintenance Tasks

Even after your MetaFrame XP server farm is "perfect," there are preventative maintenance tasks that you should perform in order to keep the farm running smoothly and to ensure that you do not find any surprises. Performing the following basic...

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Server Farm Mainenance

Throughout the life of your MetaFrame XP implementation, you will most likely need to change some of the configuration parameters of your server farm. Let's look at the following fairly common maintenance tasks: Changing zones. Changing farm membership...

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Managing Servers with the CMC

By now, you have probably realized that the Citrix Management Console is the primary tool by which you will administer your MetaFrame XP servers. Because you will spend so much time managing with this tool, it is appropriate to consider best practices...

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MetaFrame XP Server Management and Maintenance

Once your MetaFrame XP environment is designed and implemented, you will need to manage it on a day-to-day basis. In this chapter, we will focus on the tasks that you will have to perform in the management of your servers and the tools that you can leverage...

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Secure System Administration Environments

The last thing that we need to look at when considering MetaFrame XP security is how your MetaFrame XP servers will be administered. This is often overlooked, but very important. Even the world's most technically secure environments won't actually...

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User Account Security

The last layer of security that we need to look at is the security and configuration of the user accounts themselves. When addressing security from a user perspective, there are three different items that must be addressed: The user account configuration...

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Client Device Security

Client devices often pose one of the biggest security risks because they are inherently the least secure. This stems from the fact that clients are scattered throughout the world and are generally unprotected. Poorly configured client devices are much...

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Network Security

Any traffic that crosses a computer network is susceptible to being captured and viewed by unauthorized people. Because of this, the networks must be secured. There are two ways that this can be done: Protect the physical network connections so that no...

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Connection Security

Remember from Chapter 2 that "connections" in the MetaFrame XP environment refer to the groups of settings that apply to a specific Session Protocol / Network Protocol / Network Interface combination. There are multiple options configured at...

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