Bang, so the message i get is there may be a firewall port or firewall setting blocking my ability to review the patch status. So I question, is there a command I can run to easily open these settings and allow for the patch reporting from the mbsacli 2.1.2112 command line interface? Lets take a look.

1. find a server / install IIS
2. fire up autorun in your CPS5 folder (run as administrator)
3. for enterprise users, click on “Enterprise Edition”
4. click on “Application Performance Monitoring”
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5. click on “EdgeSight Server”
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6. At the welcome to the EdgeSight server installer, click on next
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7. click on Select EdgeSight Server Website and Database, then click on Next
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8. At the Prerequisite Check, Assure the following components are installed. If you receive an error indicating failure, correct the associated component.
   • minimum memory recommendation
   • sql server client tools requirement
     • install from any sql 2k5 or higher server install, download express as needed.
   • operating system requirement
   • iis feature requirement
   • microsoft .net 2.0 sp1 runtime requirement
   • msmq requirement
     • in server 2008 add ”Application Server” server role,  then add Message Queuing Activation (role service) which is part of the application server foundation.
   • msxml requirement
   • windows script host requirement
9. Assuming everything from the prerequisite check is good, you should see a “pass” from every item under Prerequisite. Now click on next to continue.
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10. Note: if you are planning on installing EdgeSight Server on a Xenapp 5.0 server where you plan to host applications, you may receive the following warning indicating: “Installing the EdgeSight Server on a XenApp Server is not recommended. Are you sure you want to do this?” Click Yes if are fine with the prompt.
11. At the End-User License Agreement, make your selection and click on Next.
12. Assuming you selected “I accept the terms in the License Agreement” at the End-User License Agreement you should now see the setup type (typical/custom)
13. For the sake of documentation, we are going to select “custom” then next.
    1. If you select custom, and plan to configure a database on a different server or hotel, make sure you have the appropriate rights.
    2. by default, program files root: C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\System Monitoring\Server\EdgeSight\
    3. by default, data files path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\System Monitoring\Server\EdgeSight\Data\
    4. note, if you have an existing xenapp 5.0 install on the same server you plan on using edgesite, you will get a prompt indicating its not best practice to run both.
14. Let the installation fun begin!
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15. Cross your fingers, should everything go as anticipated you will receive the “citrix edgesight server 5.0 installer has completed”
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16. Now make sure you keep the check in “go to the edgesight server website now then click finish.
17. IE will launch and open the EdgeSight Server Setup Wizard, at the prompt – click on Next.
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18. At the create an inital company prompt enter the following (click on next when finished):
    • Name: (enter the name that you wish to use for the company)
    • Time Zone:
    • Language:
19. At the Create Superuser account prompt, complete the following and click on next when you are ready:
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    • First Name:
    • Last Name:
    • Email/Login
    • Password
    • Confirm
20. Next at the configure email settings, setup your smpt server information if you have it available. Complete and click on next when ready.
21. At the configure Agent support and licensing prompt fill out the requested information and click on next to continue.
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    • if you dont have any license’s for edgesite to host other configurations, agents. you will receive an error indicating “no edgesight licenses were found on the specified license server”.
    • if you dont have any licenses, click on the down arrow next to “edgesight for presentation server support” and set to “off”. then click on next to continue.
22. You are now complete! EdgeSight Server V5.0 (S26) has been successfully installed.

Citrix XenApp Components Installation: The correct version of java runtime environment (JRE) is not detected on your system. The installation of Citrix licensing and XenApp Advanced Configuration requires the installation of at least JRE 1.6.0 Update 5, which you can obtain from Sun Microsystems at … your XenApp installation is explicitly looking for update 5 so be sure to download the exact JRE version. Apparently if you attempt to update to a newer version, it will still present you with this error.

How to fix:

This problem can easibly be addressed by downloading and isntalling the 32 bit version of JRE 1.6.0. We installed Update 18 and we were able to access the Citrix XenApp Advanced Configuration console without any issues.

Thoughts:

• Frankly, its annoying that you need to drop down to a 32 bit version of Java when a 64 bit version is available. We try to stay as native to the 64 bit environment as possible. Now we have both a 32 bit and a 64 bit version of Java 6 Update *.
• If you are like us, you probably bypassed the inital msi error and installed XenApp with intentions of comming back and correcting the Advanced Configuration piece.
• .\Administration\XenApp Advanced Configuration\cmc.msi is where you can find the msi. Simply double click to install.

• The first oddity we noticed was that XTE.exe was not running under a 64 bit process.
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• In fact, what alto got OS was the fact that the following were also running under *32 bit processes:
  • ctxxmlss.exe *32 – Citrix XenApp XML Service
  • RadeObj.exe *32 – Citrix XenApp Plugin for streamed Apps Session COM Server
  • RadeSvc.exe *32 – Citrix Streaming Client Service
  • XTE.exe *32 – Citrix Gateway Core Service
  • CdfSvc.exe *32 – Citrix Diagnostic Facility COM Server
  • pnamain.exe *32 – Citrix Applications (program neighborhood)
  • and ultimately, even ImaSrv.exe *32 was also running as a 32 bit process.
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After viewing the above, one would be definitely inclined to think something odd is going on. XenApp must be running in 32 bit mode. Apparently this is not the case. Even though the XenApp 64bit gets installed to the X86 directory and several XenApp relevant processes run in task manager with the appended “*32″ next to the service name.

• Even via the registry, you can confirm the existance of 32 bit apps by looking at the following registry keys. Note: true 64 bit applications would be installed to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE.
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Citrix.
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\ASC
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\CdmWorkstation
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\CitrixCAB
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\CCTXCPU
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\CtxHook
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\CtxHook64
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\DefaultToolBar
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\EUEM
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\FTABackup
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\HealthMon
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\ICA Client
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\IMA
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\IMAPrinter
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\IMATermProcess
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\Install
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\Licensing
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\MSLicensing
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\MUI
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\PNAgent
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\Policies
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\ProductCodes
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\Rade
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\RadeCache
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\SFO
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\SNMP
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\SpeedScreen
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\SpeedScreenMultimedia
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\VIP
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\WMIService
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\XTE
    • Wow6432Node\Citrix\XTEConfig

Stop with the annoying request to always run elevated:

1. Right-click an application that is not likely to have been assigned an administrative token, such as a word processing application.
2. Click Properties, and then select the Compatibility tab.
3. Under Privilege Level, select Run this program as an administrator, and then click OK.

To turn off User Account Control (UAC):

1.  click on start > run > type in “control” (without the quotes) and click on ok
2. from within control panel, double-click on us “user accounts”
3. from within the user accounts window, click on turn user account control on or
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5. at the user account control, you will be prompted with a request form windows requesting your permission to continue. Click on Continue to accept.
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7. at the turn user account control on or off window, clear the check mark from use user account control (uac) to help protect your computer and click on OK to proceed.
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9. you will then be prompted for a reboot. if you have the time, go for it!
10. 

To disable Admin Approval Mode

1. Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, click Run, type secpol.msc in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue..
3. From the Local Security Settings console tree, double-click Local Policies, and then double-click Security Options.
4. Scroll down and double-click User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode.
5. Select the Disabled option, and then click OK.
6. Close the Local Security Settings window.

• CTX_IMA_StartIMAService property CitrixWindowsFolder is C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Citrix\\
• MSI (s) (28!F0): Product: Citrix XenApp 5.0 — Error 26005. Could not start IMA Service in CTX_IMA_StartIMAService State = 2
• MSI (s) (28:FC): Leaked MSIHANDLE (84392) of type 790531 for thread
  MSI (s) (28:FC): Note: 1: 2769 2: CTX_IMA_STARTIMASERVICE
  

reference via Unattend.txt >

If you are using an Oracle, SQL Server, or DB2 database, manually create a .DSN file within the ODBC Data Source Administrator “File DSN” option before running the unattended installation process. Modify the following to fix.

• [Data Store Configuration]
  CreateFarm=No
  LocalDBType=
  DirectConnect=Yes
• [Direct Connect Settings]
  DSNFilePath=c:\temp\SQL.DSN or your custom path
  UserName=your username

Before you can install this product, you must exit setup and install XenAppHosted.msi

Correct one or more of the following.

• Add UILevel=BASIC_UI to your unattend file under [Options] to yield your specific error.
• Reference the following
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  • One or more of the following IIS role services is not installed on this computer.
    1. Windows Authentication Security
    2. IIS 6 Management Compatibility
    3. IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility
    4. IIS 6 WMI Compatibility
    5. IIS 6 Scripting Tools
    6. IIS 6 Management Console
    7. ISAPI Extensions
    8. ISAPI Filters
  • To capture the above error (ref:)
  • [Options]
    RebootOnFinish=Yes
    LogLevel=*v
    LogFile=c:\temp\msi.log
    UILevel=BASIC_UI
    IgnoreMCM=No
    RemoveWITurnkey=No
  • [Citrix XML Service]
    ;ExtendIIS=YES
    ;This setting applies only if ExtendIIS is No
    ;DedicatedPortNumber=80
    ;This setting applies only if ExtendIIS is Yes
    ;EnableVirtualScripts=Yes
  • kb949914 is not needed to address issues directly with the server.

• A configured server metric has exceeded either the warning or error threshold for a sufficient duration to cause an alert to be generated. You can view and configure the warning and error thresholds for the affected metric, and see the length of time for which they have been exceeded, in the Citrix Access Management Console. Other Information:  For explanations of the various server metrics and advice on customizing them, refer to the Citrix Presentation Server Administrator’s Guide and the Microsoft Windows Help for Performance Monitor.For information on how to configure the server metrics in the Citrix Access Management Console, refer to Monitoring Server Performance with Citrix Presentation Server.
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 A little about metrics and trending via your Xenapp access management console.

1. Metrics (warnings, errors), depending on how they are configured can come in a high frequency throughout the day and sometimes they do not reveal information that is easy to understand.
   1. For instance, its almost common to see warnings and errors under the counter % Interrupt Time (_Total) appear for brief instances. Unless you see these appear for prolonged time frames, it is considered to be normal and assumed activity.
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   3. If you see an error or warning that you want to further investigate, simply double click on the error to expand the server health (metrics), then click on the actual warning or error.
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   5. Upon double clicking on your alert from the AMC and expanding the server health, you have the opportunity to generate a graph, by clicking on “Generate graph” under Tasks
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   7. After you click on generate graph, you will see a visual representation of the data.
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   9. as you can see in the graph above, there is some serious paging going on with a server.