Monitoring

Enterprise IT Performance Monitoring: Agent & Agentless vs Goliath’s Intelligent Agent

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The debate over enterprise monitoring solutions that use agentless technology VS those that use agent software has been around for as long as monitoring has existed, and I’m not going to cover it in great detail as there is nothing new: Agent monitoring: Able to gather numerous data points, including those not otherwise exposed Communication can be configured and secured Need to install, maintain an agent Additional software can introduce extra load Agentless monitoring: No … Read more…

Replacing Edgesight with Goliath Performance Monitor

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After receiving quite a bit of feedback from my first post on Replacing Citrix Edgesight with Goliath Performance Monitor (GPM), I have decided to create a feature-to-feature comparison between Edgesight 5.x, Desktop Director\Insight, and Goliath Performance Monitor. With this comparison, it should be clear that GPM is more than capable of replacing your existing Edgesight deployment and Desktop Director, while a useful utility, it isn’t and wasn’t meant to be an Enterprise monitoring solution for Citrix … Read more…

How to Proactively Accelerate & Improve Citrix Deployments by Monitoring During POC & Pilot Phases

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We all want seamless rollouts of Citrix XenApp\XenDesktop and we use a number of tools to achieve that reality. I’ve found a unique software that allows me to proactively understand the performance impact of Citrix XenApp\XenDesktop on the IT infrastructure and ultimately end user experience early in the deployment lifecycle. In this post I will give you 4 examples of how to use the software to avoid potential issues. VDI deployments When large VDI deployments … Read more…