Citrix Call Home Technology Preview
This version required manual interaction to upload information to the Citrix Insight Services.
Manually interacting with each VDA does not scale for large deployments and forces administrators to develop their own strategies to trigger uploads. This Tech Preview release offers automated scheduled uploads to alleviate this pain-point.
To try this Tech Preview, upgrade your Call Home v1 on the XenApp 7.6.300 or XenApp 7.7 VDA. See below for configuration and other important information.
How to schedule uploads?
Automatic uploads can be scheduled daily or weekly.
Uploads are, by default, set to a weekly schedule run on Sundays at 3:00am. Deployments with a large number of VDAs may see a sudden burst of traffic if all of them upload at the same schedule. The Call Home service implements a random delay of up to 2 hours to reduce a flurry of network activity.
Credentials for scheduled uploads
Uploads require administrators to provide their ‘My Citrix’…
Read the entire article here, Citrix Call Home Technology Preview
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