Managing Citrix Farms Using MFCOM and Powershell

2 © 2007 Citrix Systems, Inc. — All rights reserved Introduction Vishal Ganeriwala - Sr. Technical Manager, Citrix Systems Inc Brandon Shell - MVP Blogger: - Co-Author:

3 © 2007 Citrix Systems, Inc. — All rights reserved Overview Powershell Basics Powershell Commands Dealing with Objects Helpful CMDLets to Learn Powershell How Does MFCOM Work? Using MFCOM to Manage Farms Creating Farm Object Looking at Farm Properties Where to go from Here

4 © 2007 Citrix Systems, Inc. — All rights reserved Powershell Basics Powershell Commands External Commands (i.e. ping.exe,ipconfig.exe, grep.exe) CMDLets (i.e. Get-Member, Get-Command, Get-Process) Functions Scripts Get-Member Format-Table/List New-Object ‘-ComObject’

5 © 2007 Citrix Systems, Inc. — All rights reserved Powershell Basics (cont) Dealing with Objects Objects are things (i.e. Car) Things you can get Info from (properties) Things you can do stuff to (methods) Properties like (Make, Model, Color) Methods like (Start, Stop, Break) What is so great about using objects? Filter on Properties without losing Everything else Get-Car | where{$_.Color –eq “Red”} Custom Output for My Needs Get-Car | Format-Table Make,Color More practical Example Get-Childitem (demo)

6 © 2007 Citrix Systems, Inc. — All rights reserved How Does MFCOM Work ? MFCOM IMA LHC DCOM RPC SAL Data Store Data Collector Citrix XenApp Server Windows Machine SAL : Subsystem Access Layer PowerShell VB Script Perl

7 © 2007 Citrix Systems, Inc. — All rights reserved Common MFCOM Objects Zones Farm Apps Servers Sessions Policies Servers Users Sessions Apps Processes VCs

8 © 2007 Citrix Systems, Inc. — All rights reserved Using MFCOM to Manage Farms Creating MFCOM Objects in Powershell $VarName = New-Object -com Finding Properties $VarName | Get-Member -MemberType Property Finding Method $VarName | Get-Member -MemberType Method Example Getting Farm Object $mfFarm = New-object –com “MetaframeCOM.MetaFrameFarm” $mfFarm.Initialize( )

9 © 2007 Citrix Systems, Inc. — All rights reserved Getting More Farm Info FarmName $mfFarm.FarmName Admins $mfFarm.Admins Printers $mfFarm.Printers Zones $mfFarm.Zones Demo

10 © 2007 Citrix Systems, Inc. — All rights reserved Where to go from Here Getting Applications $mfFarm.Applications Getting Servers $mfFarm.Servers Getting Sessions $mfFarm.Sessions Demo

11 © 2007 Citrix Systems, Inc. — All rights reserved Resources Top MFCOM and PowerShell Scripts Managing Multiple Farms using MFCOM SDK CSEIT 2007 MFCOM Presentation Dr SDK Webinar - What's new in MFCOM SDK 4.5

12 © 2007 Citrix Systems, Inc. — All rights reserved Summary Realize the Power at your finger tips Hope you ENJOYED! More Resources Me:

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