About the Content Pack for Monitoring Citrix

The Content Pack for Monitoring Citrix provides a quick way to build ITSI services to monitor your Citrix virtual apps and desktop infrastructure. The content pack includes predefined saved searches paired with data from Citrix XenDesktop technical add-ons. Use this pairing to visualize your virtual apps and desktop environment end-to-end so you can quickly find problems and understand what "normal" is. Each service template comes with predefined key performance indicators (KPIs) that provide fast visibility into your critical systems.

Once you have visibility into your CVAD environment you can add other systems for improved enterprise-wide visibility.

Content pack contents

This content pack contain the following four object types:

Object	Description
Citrix saved searches	A series of saved searches used to discover entities and services for sites, Delivery Groups, machine catalogs, VDA, NetScaler, and StoreFront.
Citrix service templates	A set of service templates that you can use to create services for your Citrix virtual apps and desktop infrastructure.
Citrix correlation searches	A set of correlation searches configured to detect certain notable events in your Citrix apps and infrastructure, such as session disconnections and logon successes and failures.
Citrix KPI base searches	Key performance indicator (KPI) base searches that monitor things like StoreFront hits per minute, Delivery Group active sessions, and Gateway failed logins.

ITSI and ITE Work support

The content in the Content Pack for Monitoring Citrix is only supported in ITSI.

Installation

If you're using ITSI version 4.9 or later, you can install the Content Pack for Monitoring Citrix after installing the Splunk App for Content Packs. Install the content pack on the same search head where you installed ITSI. For installation instructions, see Install and Configure the Content Pack for Monitoring Citrix.

If you're using ITSI version 4.8 or earlier, you need to install the content pack using the backup ZIP file. For installation instructions, see Install and Configure the Content Pack for Monitoring Citrix.

Deployment requirements

Use the following table to determine ITSI version compatibility with various versions of the Content Pack for Monitoring Citrix:

Content pack version	ITSI version
1.0.3	4.13.0 or higher
1.0.2	4.9.4 or 4.11.0
1.0.0	4.2.1 or higher

See also

• For ITSI deployment planning guidelines, see Plan your ITSI deployment in the Install and Upgrade manual.
• For ITSI version compatibility with Splunk Enterprise versions, see Splunk products version compatibility matrix.