Load Balancing ICA

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  • August 24, 2007 at 3:02 pm #571
    jchittick
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    I am having a problems with the V10L’s in a remote location. We have 2 Desktops used in our company. One is used for Administrators hosted on .111. The other is for regular employees and is load balanced over the other 4. The names are “Admin Desktop” and “User Desktop”. Even though the User desktop is not hosted on .111, if i don’t include it, it times out trying to connect. Also, when I mouse over the icon on the WTOS desktop, it gives the .111 IP address. Do I have to do something different in the ini file if they are on another subnet?

    The same thin client works here at our HQ fine.

    CONNECT=ICA
    Host=xxx.xxx.xxx.111, xxx.xxx.xxx.112, xxx.xxx.xxx.113, xxx.xxx.xxx.119, xxx.xxx.xxx.120
    Application=”User Desktop”
    Description=”Desktop”
    Icon=default
    AutoConnect=yes
    Fullscreen=yes
    LocalCopy=no

    August 25, 2007 at 2:14 am #10048
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    Hi,

    When you use the Host= you are telling the ICA connection to go to a specific server. Having others in the host= will not load balance it will always try the first in the list.

    Try this:

    Remove the host= from the ini file and use the BrowserIP= command

    The browserIP command should have your “most preferred” Citrix Data Collector first and a back up Data Collector second. This is in case the first is unavailable, there is no need to list every Citrix server as the DC holds the local host cache it will direct the connection to the least loaded server with the application published.

    I like to use CNAME’s recolds for this so its easy to change Data Collectors:

    CONNECT=ICA
    BrowserIP=CTXDC1,CTXDC2
    Application=”User Desktop”
    Description=”Desktop”
    Icon=default
    AutoConnect=yes
    Fullscreen=yes
    HttpBrowsing=yes
    LocalCopy=no

    CONNECT=ICA
    BrowserIP=CTXDC1,CTXDC2
    Application=”Admin Desktop”
    Description=”Admin Desktop”
    Icon=default
    AutoConnect=yes
    Fullscreen=yes
    HttpBrowsing=yes
    LocalCopy=no

    If your Citrix XML port is not on port 80 include the port in the command:

    BrowserIP=CTXDC1:8080,CTXDC2:8080

    Notice also I used the HttpBrowser= command to tell the connection to use the XML port – only do this if you have a Citrix XP FR2 farm or newer

    Cheers,
    -TT

    August 25, 2007 at 3:30 pm #10050
    jchittick
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    That Worked!!! Thanks once again, this website is quicker than Wyse’s customer support!

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