{"id":31927,"date":"2023-07-04T09:31:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T13:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/?p=31927"},"modified":"2024-04-08T03:27:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T07:27:57","slug":"how-to-monitor-physical-desktops-and-laptops-with-eg-enterprise-v7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/how-to-monitor-physical-desktops-and-laptops-with-eg-enterprise-v7-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Monitor Physical Desktops and Laptops with eG Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"inner_content\">\n<p>Digital Employee Experience (DEX) and the end user experience is growing in importance. IT teams must ensure that users are satisfied and productive. Many organizations are either moving to hybrid, remote or work-from-home set ups or consolidating end user support teams to support multiple branch offices \u2013 this means IT teams are responsible for supporting remote end users if the applications and services are slow or unresponsive. eG Enterprise monitoring of physical desktops (Windows laptops, PCs) allows IT support teams to troubleshoot remote workers\u2019 problems easily by providing data on physical endpoints including resource usage, home Wi-Fi, ISP quality and last mile connections.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 20px; border: 1px solid #ffd392; background: #fcf8ef; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 30px;\">\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 25px; line-height: 35px; margin-bottom: 15px;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_the_Last_Mile_When_Monitoring_Physical_Endpoints\"><\/span>What is the Last Mile? (When Monitoring Physical Endpoints)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">The last mile, in the context of telecommunications technology, refers to the gap between a broadband internet service provider&#8217;s (ISP\u2019s) infrastructure and a customer&#8217;s home or workplace. Last mile connectivity is one of the biggest challenges many businesses and homeowners face when trying to access broadband services outside of urban areas. It is also often the weakest link and often reliant on legacy infrastructure and where network bottlenecks frequently impact end user experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\">Often application issues are caused by problems with ISPs, either in the last mile or within the end user\u2019s home. Common problems at the user end which can affect users include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resource issues on the user\u2019s laptop e.g., insufficient RAM causing continual memory paging can appear very similar to internet problems to an end user<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/computing\/wi-fi-problems-and-solutions\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Home WiFi issues<\/a> \u2013 perhaps caused by a badly positioned router, contention with the neighbors or even interference from home microwaves or baby monitors<\/li>\n<li>ISP problems, in some geographies local internet services vary greatly in capacity and quality and can be unreliable, especially if local infrastructure such as local exchanges or networks are at or over capacity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In many organizations, it is the same team which handles both physical and virtual desktops, who need to be able to monitor and report on performance with a unified tool.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Enhanced_Support_for_Monitoring_Physical_Desktops_in_eG_Enterprise\"><\/span>Enhanced Support for Monitoring Physical Desktops in<br \/>\neG Enterprise<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\">eG Enterprise v7.2 now supports the monitoring of physical desktops alongside virtual workspaces, with features including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/white-paper\/make-it-service-monitoring-simple-and-proactive-with-aiops-powered-intelligent-thresholding-and-alerting\">Out-of-the-box metric thresholds and alerting<\/a> with no need for manual alert configuration<\/li>\n<li>Rich dashboards that provide overviews but also detailed per-user analysis to aid helpdesk support call workflows<\/li>\n<li>Continual monitoring of key user experience and network metrics including Wi-Fi strength, ISP latency, router latency, internet latency, user logon time breakdowns and more<\/li>\n<li>End-point hardware and OSs resource usage metrics including RAM, CPU, GPU, network, disk usage and more<\/li>\n<li>Live and historical reporting with ready-to-go pre-built reports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Getting_Started_Monitoring_Physical_Desktops\"><\/span>Getting Started Monitoring Physical Desktops<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to add physical desktop groups from the eG Enterprise Admin tab on the main console. Full details are given in the product documentation, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/documentation\/Physical-Desktop-Group\/How-to-Monitor-Physical-Desktop-Group-Using-eG-Enterprise.htm\">How to Monitor Physical Desktop Group Using eG Enterprise? (eginnovations.com).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monitoring windows desktops and laptops is easy because of the minimal configuration and the low resource overhead used to collect data. Your users won\u2019t notice a difference, and there\u2019s not a lot of time spent packaging or installing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/admin-tab-view.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/admin-tab.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/admin-tab.webp 750w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/admin-tab-300x176.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/admin-tab-310x182.webp 310w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/admin-tab-140x82.webp 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"img_caption\">Figure 1: Administrators can easily add physical desktops from the \u201cAdmin\u201d tab of the main console.<\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Monitoring_and_Alerting_for_the_Key_Metrics_of_Physical_Desktops\"><\/span>Monitoring and Alerting for the Key Metrics of Physical Desktops<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Desktop performance metrics that are automatically collected with eG are: browser resource usage, GPU utilization, application launch times and more. By collecting all of these endpoint metrics, eG is enabling desktop admins to diagnose end user problems with empirical data.<\/p>\n<table class=\"table_design numbers\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"head_table\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.33%;\"><strong>Operating System<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.33%;\"><strong>Network\/TCP<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Events<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CPU utilization<\/td>\n<td>Traffic by interface<\/td>\n<td>Application launches<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Memory free<\/td>\n<td>Packet errors<\/td>\n<td>Application launch time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Disk activity<\/td>\n<td>Bandwidth usage<\/td>\n<td>Automatic services stopped<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Disk space usage<\/td>\n<td>Queue length<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Handles usage<\/td>\n<td>Connection activity<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>GPU utilization<\/td>\n<td>Current connections<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Top processes<\/td>\n<td>Retransmissions<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Uptime<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"head_table\">\n<td><strong>User Sessions<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>User Experience<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Browser Activity<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Total logon time<\/td>\n<td>User input delay<\/td>\n<td>CPU by browser<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Breakup of logon time<\/td>\n<td>Local network latency<\/td>\n<td>Memory usage by browser<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Logon duration<\/td>\n<td>ISP latency<\/td>\n<td>Active URLs used<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Idle time<\/td>\n<td>Internet latency<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Active time<\/td>\n<td>Wi-Fi strength<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/vmware-operating-system-view.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/vmware-operating-system.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/vmware-operating-system.webp 750w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/vmware-operating-system-300x163.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/vmware-operating-system-310x168.webp 310w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/vmware-operating-system-140x76.webp 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"img_caption\">Figure 2: Layer model view of the resources of the physical desktop allow help desk staff to identify whether work from home laptops have enough RAM or CPU to support the user and are identify if resource limitations are the cause of application glitches and \u201cslowness\u201d.<\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Browser_Activity_Monitoring_and_Troubleshooting_for_Physical_Desktops\"><\/span>Browser Activity Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Physical Desktops<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Many remote workers using laptops and PCs make heavy use of browsers often to access core SaaS apps such as Zoom, O365, Salesforce and so on. Sometimes, browser issues manifest themselves in a very similar manner to internet issues, users report jerky applications, apps freezing, can\u2019t view or access certain websites or services. Users are probably calling into the helpdesk with vague symptoms like \u201cit\u2019s slow\u201d, or \u201cit\u2019s glitching out\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>eG Enterprise allows administrators to examine browser usage, browsers in use (Chrome, Edge, Firefox), browser version and sites accessed. Administrators can easily understand if problems affect one user, a particular browser or a particular website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Browser-img.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Browser-img-view.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Browser-img-view.webp 750w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Browser-img-view-300x113.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Browser-img-view-310x117.webp 310w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Browser-img-view-140x53.webp 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"img_caption\">Figure 3: Browser resource usage for Edge shows CPU utilization, Memory, Handles, I\/O. Clicking on the detailed diagnostics icon (the magnifying glass) will reveal root-cause diagnostics e.g., which recent websites have been visited.<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32012\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/website-details.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/website-details.webp 750w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/website-details-300x50.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/website-details-310x52.webp 310w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/website-details-140x24.webp 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"img_caption\">Figure 4: Detailed diagnostics on websites can also be captured. Administrators can restrict this functionality or limit access to it via RBAC to suit local regulatory and privacy considerations.<\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"User_Experience_Dashboard_for_Physical_Desktop_Endpoints\"><\/span>User Experience Dashboard for Physical Desktop Endpoints<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>For every user, a user experience dashboard is available out-of-the-box. This is particularly useful for staff tasked with delivering frontline support to offsite or homeworking employees. It&#8217;s a valuable way to see how the session is going &#8211; eG Enterprise shows a history of alerts for the user, logon times, network details, resource usage and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/user-experience-dashboard-view.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/user-experience-dashboard.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"img_caption\">Figure 5: The user experience dashboard is ideal for help desk operators handling end user support calls and tickets.<\/div>\n<p>Details of ISP and internet latencies and resource consumption data are particularly useful for staff helping users troubleshoot laptops and PCs being used remotely in work from home \/ remotely scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>This dashboard can be published out, providing a URL, so that teammates can share the view and start analyzing issues.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Publish-URL.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Publish-URL.png 408w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Publish-URL-300x69.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Publish-URL-310x71.png 310w, https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Publish-URL-140x32.png 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"img_caption\">Figure 6: A \u201cPublish URL\u201d icon is available to share dashboards with others.<\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_does_eG_Enterprise_monitor_Physical_Desktops\"><\/span>How does eG Enterprise monitor Physical Desktops?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The eG Enterprise light-weight agent is installed on each desktop and is configured to push metrics periodically to a remote agent. Administrators can group physical desktops based on department, site, geography, etc, and they are grouped by the remote agent.<\/p>\n<p>There must be network connectivity between the desktop and the remote agent- this could be direct traffic over the local network or internet, or if preferred via a VPN solution. The agent on the desktop pushes metrics to the remote agent, which in turn forwards this to the eG Enterprise manager.<\/p>\n<p>The remote agent does not initiate any communication with the eG Enterprise agent on the individual physical desktop. 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