Certification Summary

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The ICA protocol is a general-purpose presentation protocol that Citrix developed to provide extensible functionality over a wide range of connections. With its protocol independence, extensibility, and bandwidth management capabilities, ICA provides an excellent foundation for thin client solutions. Now building on the new Independent Management Architecture, Citrix has introduced a new server-to-server protocol that can also be extended to provide for new features. IMA and CMC provide a unified management paradigm to ease the administrative burden by consolidating management functions into one application.

Taking user suggestions is key to Citrix's ongoing developmental success. In the past, the most requested features from users involved better response time while speed typing over slow links, and immediate feedback of mouse clicks to inform the user that the action was being performed. SpeedScreen 3 has fulfilled these requests with predictive text entry and instant mouse feedback.

MetaFrame XP uses the same type of connection scheme as MetaFrame 1.8 with listener ports and idle sessions. For large farms that have many users logging in at the same time, the number of idle sessions may need to be increased to prevent users from getting timeouts while the existing idle sessions recycle. Once the MetaFrame user connects and logs on, they constitute an ICA session. ICA sessions can be monitored from the CMC's Sessions tab and specific information can be obtained from each session by drilling down to its properties. Client device licensing allows users to start multiple sessions from one client to one or many MetaFrame servers and only consume one pooled license.

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