Citrix VDA Registration Alerting

Goliath Performance Monitor has the ability to alert on unregistered Citrix Virtual Desktops (VDI) out of the box. To alert on unregistered XenApp Servers, leverage the custom monitoring to execute a query on a scheduled basis to a check a registry key which includes if the VDA is registered or unregistered. See full details outlined below.

How to monitor and alert for unregistered Citrix VDI:

1. Navigate to the Management - Monitors page.
2. Select and edit the rule named Citrix XenDesktop - VDI Session & VDI Availability.
3. Select the checkbox option for Unregistered VDI.

How to monitor and alert for unregistered Citrix XenApp Servers:

1. Navigate to the Management - Monitors page.
2. Click New.
3. Select Type, for Advanced Watch
4. In the Options tab, add the following in the Program Name field.

   1. C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe

5. Configure the Cmd-line Options field to be the following:

   1. $reg = ((GP -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Citrix\VirtualDesktopAgent\State' -Name Registered).Registered); exit $reg

6. Configure the "exit code" to be "=2", if something other then 2 is returned it will trigger an alert

See article Configure Advanced Watch Rules for full configuration details for creating AdvancedWatch rules.