LKBEN10789: Howto use the citrix Appmanagement tool and how to export farm information in a file

Symptom

Citrix delivers an Appmanagement tool written in c# to make the life of administrators easier

Cause

The normal Citrix Administration tools are slow and not optimised for exports in files

Solution

The AppManagement tool can be used to manage your published applications. It is written in csharp.net and uses the Mfcom.dll to query the IMA. (= independent management architecture) To run the

tool you need at least .NET Framework 1.1 on your local machine. It can be used "as is" with no warranty but I did not have any problems with it yet. (The only problem is the slow performance)

Some errors are reported and ask to copy the Mfcom.dll in the folder of the tool.

The following operations are supported:

C:\Programme\Appmanagement>AppManagement.exe
Usage of the tool :

1: Summary of the Farm .
    AppManagement.exe S

2: To List all Application by Groups and UserName in a Farm.
    AppManagement.exe U

3: To List all Application by Server in a Farm.
    AppManagement.exe L <ServerName>

4: To Remove All applications from server and adding Properties of Apps to a XML file.
    AppManagement.exe R <ServerName>

5: To Write  All application properties  of server for backup to a XML file for publishing later on :
    AppManagement.exe W <ServerName>

6: To Batch  ADD  All 'Existing' applications in farm from XML file to a server
    AppManagement.exe A <XMLFilename> <ServerName>

7: To Enable application on a Farm
    AppManagement.exe E <AppDname>

8: To disable application on a Farm
    AppManagement.exe D <AppDname>


To write a XML file for a certain server you use:

appmanagement W myserver1

This will create a XML file with all information for the application. I use most command to pipe the result in a file. On a normal serverfarm the summary will be to long view on the commandline.

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.