What you'll learn

The past six courses in this learning path have been a journey through the installation, configuration, and integration of the major components that comprise a production-ready XenDesktop environment. As you've seen, there are a lot of them. With a lot of components come a lot of interconnections, which are cumbersome to install but even more difficult to troubleshoot when your environment goes live. Enter Citrix Director. This solution offers more than just monitoring. It offers a single pane of glass for understanding the behaviors (both good and bad) in a XenDesktop environment. It also surfaces a lightweight web-based interface for help desk personnel and front line technicians to quickly trace a user who calls in with an issue down to a root cause of their problem. Citrix Director is meant as a visualization solution for both you the administrator as well as your front-line support. In this final course out of seven, Citrix XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR: Director, you will explore this and more. First, you'll walk through the installation of Citrix Director. Next, you'll perform a bit of tuning to customize it for your needs. Finally, you'll peek into it's dashboards, trending reports, and user-specific instrumentation that'll ensure everyone managing your XenDesktop environment knows what behaviors are occurring. By the end of this course, you'll be armed with the information you need to troubleshoot issues and find the actual issue when users call in to report that "Citrix is slow today".