Citrix Machine Identity Service Test

The Citrix Machine Identity Service manages the storage of virtual machines. This test monitors the health of the transactions performed by this service on the broker’s SQL database, and reveals the following:

  • Whether the service is able to connect to the database or not;
  • The load imposed by the service on the database;
  • The speed and efficiency with which the database is able to handle the transaction load

Target of the test : A Citrix Delivery Controller 5.x

Agent deploying the test : An internal agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for the Delivery Controller being monitored.

Configurable parameters for the test
Parameter Description

Test Period

How often should the test be executed.

Host

The IP address of the host for which this test is to be configured.

Port

Refers to the port at which the DDC listens to.
Measurements made by the test
Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation

Database average transaction time

Indicates the average time taken by the broker to execute a database transaction from the Citrix Machine Identity service.

Secs

Ideally, the value of this measure should be low. A high value indicates that the Citrix Machine Identity service is taking too much time to execute transactions on the database; this can cause significant delays for users in accessing their desktops.

Is database connected?

Indicates whether the Citrix Machine Identity service is able to connect to the database or not.

 

This measure reports the value Yes if the database is connected and No if it is not. The numeric values that correspond to these measure values are as follows:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Yes 1
No 0

Note:

By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values to indicate whether/not the Citrix Machine Identity service is connected to the database. However, in the graph of this measure, the same will be represented using the numeric equivalents – 1 and 0 only.

If the database is unavailable, the Citrix Machine Identity service may not be able to perform one/more critical operations; this can cause a significant dip in the service-levels desired from the broker.

Database transaction errors

Indicates the rate at which the database transactions are failing while the Citrix Machine Identity service is executing the transactions.

Errors/Sec

A low value is typically desired for this measure.

Database transactions

Indicates the rate at which the database transactions are executed by the Citrix Machine Identity service.

Trans/Sec