| Shawn Bass |
Shawn,
I followed your advice and configured the counters
you suggested but there are a lot of variable, to
calculate the total bandwidth used by a citrix
session, should I add all the variable? Please
advice?
Alex
Yes, they will be variable because they are realtime counters. I thought I understand your request to want to understand what typical bandwidth requirements were for an ICA Session? If that’s the case, then watching those values through a session duration of an active user is the best way to gather a representative look at the ICA traffic involved. Typically what matters most from a WAN connection perspective is the throughput at a given time more so than the culmulative traffic over an entire day. You could perform logging and try to tally the results, but I don’t think that you need to. All you need to do is determine who a representive user is, determine their ICA session #, measure their ICA input/output bandwidth at certain key intervals over a several hour period and extrapolate your results from that. If you’re looking for exact bytes, etc. then you’re probably going to want to use a network sniffer as there’s other traffic involved than just ICA (though that would be the greatest amount of traffic from a bandwidth perspective).
Shawn |
