Virtual Machines - Omnissa Horizon Test

Whenever users complain of inaccessibility of their virtual machines, administrators need to promptly determine the reason for the same - is it because the VMs are not powered on? Or is it because they are too many users accessing the VMs? The Virtual Machines - Omnissa Horizon test provides administrators with this information. This test tracks the virtual machines connected to the server, reports the number of VMs that are currently logged in, and the number of VMs without any users logged in.

Target of the test : An Omnissa Horizon desktop on the cloud

Agent deploying the test : A remote agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for the Omnissa Horizon desktop on the cloud

Configurable parameters for the test
Parameter Description

Test Period

How often should the test be executed.

Host

The nick name of the Omnissa Horizon Desktops component for which this test is to be configured.

Port

Refers to the port at which the specified host listens to. By default, this is NULL.

Inside View Using

To obtain the 'inside view' of performance of the cloud-hosted Omnissa Horizon desktops - i.e., to measure the internal performance of the Omnissa Horizon desktops - this test uses a light-weight eG VM Agent software deployed on each of the desktops. Accordingly, this parameter is by default set to eG VM Agent (Omnissa Horizon).

Report By User

This flag is set to Yes by default. The value of this flag cannot be changed. This implies that the virtual machines in VDI environments will always be identified using the login name of the user. In other words, in VDI environments, this test will, by default, report measures for every username_on_virtualmachinename.

Report Powered OS

This flag is relevant only for those tests that are mapped to the Inside View of Desktops layer. If this flag is set to Yes (which is the default setting), then the 'inside view' tests will report measures for even those Omnissa Horizon desktops that do not have any users logged in currently. Such desktops will be identified by their name and not by the username_on_virtualdesktopname. On the other hand, if this flag is set to No, then this test will not report measures for those Omnissa Horizon desktops to which no users are logged in currently.  

Is Cloud VMs

Since this test runs for 'Omnissa Horizon Desktops' component which is a cloud-hosted desktop group, this flag is set to Yes by default.

DD Frequency

Refers to the frequency with which detailed diagnosis measures are to be generated for this test. For instance, if you set to 1:1, it means that detailed measures will be generated every time this test runs, and also every time the test detects a problem.

Detailed Diagnosis

To make diagnosis more efficient and accurate, the eG suite embeds an optional detailed diagnostic capability. With this capability, the eG agents can be configured to run detailed, more elaborate tests as and when specific problems are detected. To enable the detailed diagnosis capability of this test for a particular server, choose the On option. To disable the capability, click on the Off option.

The option to selectively enable/disable the detailed diagnosis capability will be available only if the following conditions are fulfilled:

  • The eG manager license should allow the detailed diagnosis capability

  • Both the normal and abnormal frequencies configured for the detailed diagnosis measures should not be 0.
Measurements made by the test
Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation

Total VMs reported in the last one hour

Indicates the number of VMs that have been connected to the server during the last one hour.

Number

To know which virtual desktops reported metrics, use the detailed diagnosis of this measure.

Currently powered on VMs

Indicates the number of VMs that have been powered on.

Number

If the value of this measure is the same as that of the Total VMs reported in the last one hour measure, it means that all VMs are presently in a powered-on state. On the other hand, if the value of this measure is lesser than the value of the Total VMs reported in the last one hour measure, it implies that some VMs are powered-off currently. The value 0 for this measure indicates that none of the VMs that reported in the last hour are powered on currently.

VMs with users

Indicates the number of VMs on which users are currently logged in.

Number

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know to which VMs users have logged in currently.

VMs without users

Indicates the number of VMs without any users logged in.

Number

Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know to which VMs has no user logged in.

Overall VMs reported for this component

Indicates the total number of VMs reported to the remote agent for this Omnissa Horizon Desktop group.

Number

 

VMs reporting currently

Indicates the percentage of VMs currently reporting to the remote agent for this Omnissa Horizon Desktop group.

Percent

This value can be measured as follows:

Currently powered on VMs/Total VMs*100

VMs not reporting currently

Indicates number of VMs that are currently not reporting to the remote agent for this Omnissa Horizon Desktop group.

Number

This value can be measured as follows:

Total VMs – Currently powered on VMs