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Centralis Harvester 4.5Audit, Analyse and Automate your Citrix Farm. The latest version of Centralis Harvester is certified "Citrix Ready" and makes light work of managing Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 and 4.5 Farms.
OverviewCitrix Presentation Server Farms demand the highest quality of pro-active management and maintenance of standards to ensure users get a consistent experience. But how can you actually audit, analyse and manage large numbers of servers and published applications effectively? Award-winning consultancy and Citrix Platinum partner Centralis has been running large-scale Citrix managed services for 10 years. In order to improve (and prove) the quality of service Centralis developed software to not only automate many of the time-consuming management tasks, but also to report on standards throughout the farm in real-time. The results are improved standards, faster troubleshooting and a reduction of time spent on maintenance tasks of up to 90%. "We upgrade our Citrix Farm
regularly, and publish well over 700 applications. The
amount of time I was able to save using the Centralis
Harvester 4 product is incredible! I can not believe that I
went without this product for so long... Centralis Harvester
4 is an awesome tool that I would recommend to anyone."
While scripts can automate some tasks, only Centralis® Harvester™ delivers the combination of a simple, easy to use interface, with menu driven options and highly flexible reporting.
"Centralis Harvester 4 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 4 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" Centralis has been developing Citrix management tools for more than five years, selling over 350,000 user licenses worldwide. Major customers for Harvester include Hoffman La-Roche, Dresdner Kleinwort, Centrica, Standard Life, Arcadia, Fujitsu Siemens, Thames Valley Police, Surrey County Council, the RNLI and a number of Universities and NHS Trusts. Harvester was originally developed by Centralis as part of their Citrix managed farm service. The software not only significantly reduces the time administrators spend managing the Citrix Presentation Server Farm, it also checks standard settings for every server and published application. Administrators can apply global standards across the farm in one operation, improving the performance of the farm and the experience of the end-user. "Fujitsu
Siemens Computers is using 64bit technology for the internal
Citrix Presentation Server Farm. Centralis Harvester has been
successfully implemented in order to manage this Enterprise
environment easily, to detect inconsistencies and to backup and
duplicate the farm configuration. The flexible and fast support
is particularly good." AuditSave complex reports on critical farm settings and standards to be run in seconds and prove compliance across every server and published application in the Citrix farm. Identify non-compliant settings immediately with exception reports, highlighting areas for action.
AnalyseSimplify troubleshooting and diagnostics with tools to profile the whole Citrix farm in seconds - including integration with the new Advanced Access Control filters and Published Application assignment under Active Directory. AutomateMaking the most time consuming and complex tasks simple. Store Server settings and Published Application lists in XML format - then simply apply them to any number of targets via Harvester. Take whole farms and back them up or move them to new farms. Find any setting and change it, on every target, in a single operation. Roll back changes in seconds by reverting to saved "snapshots". Overall, customer tests have shown that Harvester not only improves farm-wide standards – on core farm management tasks it is more than ten times faster than using CMC alone!
Key Harvester Features:Harvester 4.5 is fully compatible with Presentation Server 4.0 & 4.5 (Harvester 2.0 is available for earlier versions), allowing Citrix administrators to quickly and easily carry out core farm administration tasks in a fraction of the time, including:
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." Harvester 4.5 allows Citrix administrators to quickly and easily carry out complex farm administration tasks in a fraction of the time, including:
Printer Driver ReportingCreate 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.
"Without Harvester we'd need substantial manual effort to finalise
each build. Harvester saves us valuable time." Server & Published Application StandardsCompare any server or published application with another, or with your standard settings to create exception reports - then use Harvester to reset the exceptions to standard - even across multiple servers.
HotFix ReportingCheck the hotfix settings on any group of servers to make sure they are consistent with your standards.
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