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CITRIX Repeater with WCCP

Autor brendon | 09.09.2009 | Category CITRIX, Comms, TechStuff

When deploying a CITRIX Repeater (formally known as WANScaler) using WCCP with a cisco router we found that the configuration on the KB isn’t quite right. Read on for the configuration.

Repeater v5 ICA Acceleration Debug

Autor brendon | 03.09.2009 | Category CITRIX, TechStuff

While there is no direct link to it, accessing a Repeater management console with the address http://<repeaterIP>/ica_debug.php will let you monitor individual ICA sessions for compression, connection stats, etc. Great tool, its a pitty Citrix had to hide it!

Interesting point to note, when using client session printing on a connection between an ICA v11.0 client and XenServer 5.0 FR3 AND you happen to be running a pair of CITRIX Repeaters on version 5.0.32 AND you have any printer bandwidth limiting defined anywhere in the ICA farm…. Your printing goes REALLY REALLY slow.

Check the preferences and farm settings to make sure its not enabled, then use the inbuilt QoS CoS on the Repeaters to control performance.

CITRIX Branch Repeater – Advanced Options

Autor brendon | 04.02.2009 | Category CITRIX, TechStuff

CITRIX have a neat new product available for WAN Optimisation that works hand-in-hand with their WANScaler range of products. Designed for those sites that have too many staff for *just* a WAN link and not enough to warrant an onsite Server.

The Branch Repeater is a little 1RU server designed for a standard COMMS rack, which apart from applying CoS policies and compressing traffic flowing through other WANScalers runs Windows Server 2003 R2. So you can configure it to host DHCP, DNS, WINS, DC, GC, Printer Shares, FRS, etc.

A little known fact is that pressing Ctrl + Alt + W will bring up additional debugging options on the BranchRepeater system tray icon.

Personally I don’t know why they hid it, just means people like me who have to install and support these lives are that little bit harder..