Administration tools – Citrix Systems MetaFrame Presentation Server User Manual

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Chapter 1 Introduction

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Management functionality is provided through a number of snap-in management
tools (extensions) that you can select when you install the Access Suite Console or
at any time later. Extensions are available to help you:

• View applications, servers, and zones in multiple farms

• Manage sessions across multiple farms

• Monitor the performance of your server farms

• Create reports analyzing your MetaFrame Presentation Server deployment

• Create a trace for problem analysis

Administration Tools

MetaFrame Presentation Server provides a number of administration tools. This
section list included administration tools and provides a brief description of what
they do.

ICA Administration Toolbar

The ICA Administration Toolbar provides easy desktop access to the following
administration and management tools:

• ICA Client Update Configuration Tool

• Shadow Taskbar

• Citrix Connection Configuration Tool

• SpeedScreen Latency Reduction Manager

• Citrix SSL Relay Configuration Tool

• Presentation Server Console

• Access Suite Console

• Document Center

ICA Client Update Configuration Tool

To help organize automatic client updates, use the ICA Client Update Configuration
utility to manage the client update database.

You can configure a client update database on each server in a server farm or
configure one database to update the Clients for multiple servers running
MetaFrame Presentation Server. As Citrix releases new versions of the Clients, you
add them to the client update database.

Using the ICA Client Update Configuration Tool you can:

• Create a new update database

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