Health Check Reporting

Giving Your Application Delivery the Greenlight

Whether you need diagnostic information to help troubleshoot a problem, or just an independent view on whether a Citrix or virtualisation environment is fit for purpose, Centralis health checks have been used to analyse some of the UK's largest and most mission critical installations.

Centralis Greenlight is the new information gathering tool, interface and reporting tool for those checks - aggregating the information gathering and analysis into a simple user interface, without compromising on the detailed information gathered "behind the scenes". 

The typical areas covered by a Centralis Greenlight Health Check are:

• Server Build & Configuration (inc Build process, Hardware, Firmware / Driver Versions, BIOS, Performance Settings, Visual Effects, Server Service, Processor Scheduling, Drive Configuration, RAID and Partitions, Disk Space Usage, NIC Settings, Teaming, Speed / Duplex, Unused Connections)

• Windows Configuration (Inc Components, Terminal Services Configuration, Consistency, License Server Discovery, Security, Server  Permissions, Driver Versions, Windows Updates, Windows Tuning / Best Practises)

• Citrix Configuration (inc Versions, Hotfixes, installed components, Citrix Datastore type and resilience, License Server, Data Collectors, Zones, Printer Driver Installation and Replication, Load Evaluators, Connection Settings, Policies, Printing, Client Drive Mapping, Security Considerations for Remote Access, Session Timeouts)

• Virtualisation (Standardisation, Supportability, Server Hardware and BIOS Configuration, Service Console Configuration, Server Networking Configuration, Server Storage Configuration, Security, VM Configuration, VDI Configuration, Operations and Usage Assessment, Load Sizing and Balancing, Contention Mitigation, Storage Usage, Administration, Performance Troubleshooting, Data Protection and High Availability, VM Usage, Planning Assessment, Upgrading to Next Infrastructure Release, Planning for Other Requirements

• Applications (Inc  Application Set, Packaging / Install Methods, Deployment, Published Applications - Consistent Distribution; Published Applications – Consistent Settings, Misbehaving Applications, Published Desktops, Lockdown, Shortcut Population

• Farm Settings (Inc. Farm Capacity, Number of Servers, Example Load – CPU / Memory, Resilience)

Overall, Centralis Greenlight health checks offer a highly cost effective way of gathering detailed information about your environment and targeting remedial action where it is needed most.  To find out more, please contact us.