Project S-Bend: Alerting for Citrix Configuration Logging
Wednesday, 16 January 2008 by Michel Roth
The brilliant Jason Conger has just released another cool free addition to one of the features of Citrix Presentation Server 4.5. This time around it's something called Project S-Bend (still trying to find out where that came from) and it basically is about adding Alerting capabilities to Citrix Configuration Logging.

So the way S-Bend works, is that it provides you with the ability to receive alerts whenever a change has been made to the Citrix farm. Of course a prerequisite is that Configuration Logging ( introduced in Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 ) has been enabled. For those of you that don't quite remember what Configuration Logging is, let me briefly explain. Configuration Logging is a (underrated ) feature of
Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 that allows you to set up a database that logs every single change that has been made to the Citrix farm (by means of the Citrix Management tools or MFCOM scripting).

This was a nice feature but as with Jason's Web Interface for Resource Manager, Jason saw what Configuration logging was missing: alerting. Without S-Bend you could only know about changes made to the farm by running a report on the  Configuration logging database by use of the Access Suite Console but that is only good for historical purposes. It basically cuts down on the bigger potential Configuration logging has.

So thankfully Jason created S-Bend which allows you to set up alerting for Configuration logging so you can receive an email whenever something in the farm configuration has changed, for example the addition of an application or the removal of administrative account from the management consoles.

S-Bend consists of adding a table to the Configuration logging database, a SQL trigger and a Windows service that sends an email.  This is what Jason considers to be phase I, phase II will be about making it compatible with the Web Interface for Resource Manager!

Download Project S-Bend, Phase I. 


Related Items:

Web Interface for Resource Manager 3.0 Announced (27 August 2007)
Setting Up Configuration Logging In Presentation Server 4.5 (3 May 2007)
Web Interface for Resource Manager Roadmap (11 December 2007)
Web Interface for Resource Manager Available In Spanish (8 November 2007)
Web Interface for Resource Manager 2.2 Released ! (16 February 2007)
Web Interface for Resource Manager 2.1 (8 December 2006)
Web Interface For Resource Manager 2.2 (12 February 2007)
Citrix Presentation Server At iForum (31 October 2006)
Web Interface For Resource Manager Updated: Version 1.2 (17 July 2006)
Web Interface for Resource Manager (WIRM) Version 2.1 Preview (8 November 2006)
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