An ADM template file for tuning Citrix zone data collectors

There are several registry settings that you can use to tweak the performance of the data collectors in your Citrix Presentation Server farm. Here is an ADM template you can use to control this via group policy objects.

CLASS MACHINE
CATEGORY "System"
CATEGORY "Citrix data collector tuning"

POLICY "Zone cache entries"
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Citrix\IMA\RUNTIME"
EXPLAIN "This setting controls how many open connections to member servers a data collector can have at one time. Minimum 512, maximum 1.5 size of farm size. If the farm size is less then 512, then 512 is the only value accepted for this setting."
PART "Zone cache entries" NUMERIC
VALUENAME "MaxHostAddressCacheEntries"
DEFAULT "512"
MIN "512"
END PART
END POLICY

POLICY "Gateway validation interval"
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Citrix\IMA\RUNTIME"
EXPLAIN "This setting controls how often IMA verifies Gateway Information. Minimum 30000, maximum 300000"
PART "Gateway validation interval" NUMERIC
VALUENAME "GatewayValidationInterval"
DEFAULT "30000"
MIN "30000"
MAX "300000"
END PART
END POLICY

POLICY "IMA worker thread"
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Citrix\IMA"
EXPLAIN "This setting increases IMA processing bandwidth by increasing the amount of worker threads available to the data collector. Minimum 128, maximum 1024."
PART "IMA worker thread" NUMERIC
VALUENAME "WorkQueueThreadCount"
DEFAULT "128"
MIN "128"
MAX "1024"
END PART
END POLICY

POLICY "IMA event time out"
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Citrix\IMA"
EXPLAIN "This setting shortens the timeout of stale events. Minimum 20000, maximum 120000."
PART "Event time out" NUMERIC
VALUENAME "EventTimeout"
DEFAULT "2000"
MIN "2000"
MAX "120000"
END PART
END POLICY

END CATEGORY
END CATEGORY