Author Archives: Murugan B Iyyappan

About Murugan B Iyyappan

Working as a Senior Consultant - Citrix solutions architect with 20+ years of experience in the IT industry. Expertise in Citrix products and Cloud VDI platform.

Citrix SMA Service not starting

Posted on September 23, 2016 by Murugan B Iyyappan

If SMA service could not be started and getting the below error message: “The Citrix SMA Service service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance … Continue reading →

Citrix License Usage: LMSTAT

Posted on September 23, 2016 by Murugan B Iyyappan

To quickly find the count of citrix licenses used run the following command: C:\Program Files\Citrix\Licensing\LS>lmstat -a | find /i “licenses” If lmstat -a results in the fillowing error do the following: lmpath location: “C:\Program Files\Citrix\Licensing\LS” First, make sure you point … Continue reading →

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Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Murugan B Iyyappan

Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) is a protocol that enables a client machine to boot from its network interface and connect to a server resource on the network to retrieve a boot-file program and load an Operating System. When a workstation … Continue reading →

Posted in Citrix | Tagged boot file, Citrix PVS, DHCP, DHCP Reply, IP Discover, PVS, PVS Target machine, PXE, PXE Boot, PXE Client, PXE Packet | Leave a comment

Get alert email when an event occurs and logged in the event viewer

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Murugan B Iyyappan

Scenario: We need to get an email when an event occurs and logged in the event viewer. The mail should contain the contents of the event log entry. In this example, I am using Event ID 137 on a Windows … Continue reading →

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Configuring Citrix Director 7.6 for XenApp 6.5

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Murugan B Iyyappan

Citrix has brought back IMA Support to allow users to troubleshoot XenApp 6.5 (IMA) sessions with enhanced features in Director 7.6. In addition to providing a short list of the available features of Director 7.6 with IMA architecture Features: Activity … Continue reading →

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