Centralis Harvester 4.5
Citrix Farm Management Made Simple

Centralis^® Harvester^TM 4.5 is now available!

Developed as an integral part of our farm management service for Citrix customers, Harvester is based on over ten years direct experience of managing corporate Citrix Presentation Server farms supporting many thousands of concurrent users.

"Centralis Harvester is a breath of fresh air as it allows both SMB and Enterprise customers to easily and cost effectively manage and audit Citrix Presentation Server farms in seconds. In terms of farm-wide Citrix audit, reporting and standards, Harvester has defined itself as a top tier solution that also has the ability to pay for itself in weeks! I highly recommend giving it a try"
Douglas A. Brown President and CTO, DABCC, Inc.

With Centralis Harvester, Citrix administrators are given access for the first time to a management tool which operates at a farm-wide level, making global changes simple and easy to implement. Harvester 4 builds on this with a new "Auditor" edition giving read only access, new reporting and farm-management features and compatibility with Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 & 4.5.

Harvester 4.5's Farm Configuration Options

Core farm administration tasks in a fraction of the time

"In the case of a recent major application upgrade, Harvester allowed us to remove applications quickly and smoothly from servers, ensuring that users could not connect to them whilst still allowing administrators on the servers to complete upgrade work and then add applications back again quickly afterwards using the saved XML files.  The reporting element of the tool is also proving very useful and provides farm-wide information in seconds."
Citrix Administrator, UK Police Force

Harvester 4 allows Citrix administrators to quickly and easily carry out complex farm administration tasks in a fraction of the time, including:

• Give "read-only" access to helpdesk and support staff - improving diagnostic & reporting capabilities
• Create and run standard reports for SLAs, quality reports and ITIL procedures showing standards compliance across the farm, including hotfixes, printer drivers & load evaluators
• Move published applications between Citrix Presentation Server farms
• Report and change settings for Published Applications across the farm
• Publish standard application sets to a new server 
• Stop the publishing of an application across every server in the farm 
• Report and change server configuration settings across the farm
• Store server configurations in a file to be compared with and applied to other servers
• Find non-standard settings across Published Applications and Citrix Presentation Servers and correct them
• Define a new set of standards and simply apply it across the farm

Printer Driver Reporting

Create a list of your standard printer drivers - then create an automated report that runs each day to check every server in the farm and ensure no new drivers have been added.

Harvester 4.5 Report on Printer Drivers by Server

"Without Harvester we'd need substantial manual effort to finalise each build. Harvester saves us valuable time."
Roy Farr, Principal Wintel Specialist, Centrica IS

Server & Published Application Standards

Compare any server or published application with another, or with your standard settings to create exception reports - then use Harvester to fix the reset the exceptions to standard - even across multiple servers.

Harvester 4.5 Report on Server comparison

HotFix Reporting

Check the hotfix settings on any group of servers to make sure they are consistent with your standards.

Harvester 4.5 Report on HotFixes by Server

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