Chapter 6. Configuring and Administering MetaFrame Presentation Servers

6. Configuring and Administering MetaFrame Presentation Servers

Terms you'll need to understand:

• Management Console

• SpeedScreen Latency Reduction

• Citrix Connection Configuration

• MetaFrame administrators

Concepts you'll need to master:

• The Shadow Taskbar

• SpeedScreen technology

• The Farm node properties

• The Servers node properties

The Management Console is the single-most important administration tool that you will be using on a daily basis to manage and configure your server farm. Since Citrix introduced MetaFrame XP and now MetaFrame Presentation Server (MPS) 3.0, it has consolidated all the previous management tools into one console. Tools that were standalone in MetaFrame (MF) 1.8, such as Published Applications Manager and Citrix Server Administration, have seen their functions incorporated into the console.

This chapter eases your introduction to the Management Console, covering all its functionality and configurable parameters. We discuss how the Management Console allows you to remotely plug in to your servers and configure them along with other resources and services such Resource Manager and Installation Manager, which are described in later chapters. You should also note that depending on the version of MetaFrame you load, the Management Console will populate itself with additional plug-ins to various tools. For example, if you load MetaFrame Presentation Server, Standard Edition, you do not see the Load Manager (LM) node, nor do you see the Resource Manager (RM); LM can be enabled with the Advanced and Enterprise Editions, while RM can only be enabled with the Enterprise Edition.