Components of the Management Console

Components of the Management Console

The Management Console is divided into two control panes. The left pane consists of the various nodes or plug-ins available to administer and configure the servers and farm. The pane on the right consists of the configurable values.

The left pane contains the following:

• Farm node The area of the console where you can configure settings on a global farm-wide range.

• Applications node The area where you can publish and configure applications.

• MetaFrame Administrators node The area where you can add, remove, or edit users who have access to log in to the console and the level of access they have.

• Load Evaluators node (Advanced and Enterprise Editions) The area where you can configure the load criteria for the servers.

• Policies node The area where you can configure policies that are enforced on ICA connections to the MPS servers.

• Printer Management node The area that contains all the printers and print drivers installed in the server farm.

• Resource Manager node (Enterprise Edition) The area that allows you to configure and monitor server resources.

• Servers node The area where all the MPS servers are located. From this node, you can configure, monitor, and manipulate all servers in the server farm.

• Installation Manager node The area where you can control the deployment of packages to MPS 3.0 Servers in the farm.

Note

MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 introduced significant licensing changes. One of the most noticeable changes is that the Licenses node has been completely removed from the Management Console and placed in its own tool under the Citrix License Server. See Chapter 4, "Installing and Managing MetaFrame Presentation Server," for more information.