| Citrix has two primary tools for remote administration of a MetaFrame farm. Citrix Management Console (CMC) Citrix Web Console (CWC) The following sections describe how to install and configure both tools.
Citrix Management Console and IMA allow management of MetaFrame XP servers and server farms from any location. Authorized administrators can run the console on any connected Windows NT or Windows 2000 workstation, in addition to MetaFrame XP server consoles. With the release of Feature Release 2 the Citrix Management Console has be enhanced with the following features: Better integration with Active Directory. The CMC now reflects the Active Directory Organizational Unit structure. This tighter integration allows improved usability and faster enumeration. User objects are not enumerated until their host OU is expanded. Pass-through authentication. Citrix administrators can log on to the console using the credentials of the local user, eliminating the need to enter credentials each time. Ticketing. When using the pass-through authentication logon method, Citrix administrator credentials are not passed over the wire. Ticketing provides secure and confidential authentication. Search capability. You can search your published applications, user policies, and autocreated printers for users or user groups. 
Important! If you will be administering the farm via the Internet, I highly recommend either using a VPN or better yet, to publish the CMC (C:\Program Files\Citrix\Administration\CTXLOAD.EXE) and administer the farm through a MetaFrame session.
The management interface for MetaFrame XP servers and server farms is the Citrix Management Console, an extensible Java-based tool that operates in the framework of IMA. The console communicates with MetaFrame XP servers and other IMA-based Citrix servers using the IMA protocol over TCP port 2512. This is a configurable port via the IMAPORT command as documented in the Feature Release 2 Administrators Guide. The following defines how to installing the Citrix Management Console on a stand-alone workstation. To install the CMC on a workstation: 1. Insert the MetaFrame XP for Windows with Feature Release 2 CDROM and click the Install or update MetaFrame icon. 
2. Click the Administative tools icon. 
3. Click the Citrix Management Console icon 
4. The Welcome to the Citrix Management Console Feature Release 2 Installation Wizzard appears. Click Next to begin 
5. Click the I accept the license agreement radio button and click Next. 
6. Accept the default location and click Next. 
7. Click Next to install the Citrix Management Console. 
8. The CMC is a Java applet and requires the Java Runtime Enviroment to be installed on the workstation. During installation of the CMC setup checks to see if JRE is installed if not then setup will prompt you to install it. Click OK to install if prompted. 
9. Click Finish to because you have sucessfully installed the Citrix Management Console. 
You have now successfully installed the Citrix Management Console of a workstation and are ready to administrate away.
The Citrix Web Console (CWC) gives you the ability to monitor and perform helpdesk type administration on your MetaFrame XP server farms securely through a Web browser. You can view information about a server farm, including its active sessions, published applications, servers, and users. Administrators can manage sessions by logging off sessions, shadowing sessions, disconnecting sessions and sending messages to users. Feature Release 2 contains a few new additions to the CWC including searching and filtering capabilities and an improved layout, including static buttons. 
The CWC can be installed in a MetaFrame server running IIS and or a standalone IIS 5.0 or above web server. I highly recommend that you leave MetaFrame to run published applications and install the CWC on a miscellaneous web server or the NFuse web server. The Citrix Web Console obtains its information by utilizing the MFCOM component of the Citrix Server Software Development Kit (CSSDK). Because MFCOM is a COM server, its objects and interfaces are available to all COM clients. The COM clients can be run on the same server that MFCOM is running, or from a remote system using DCOM. Thus to install and run the Citrix Web Console from a server without MetaFrame XP, the MFCOM portion of the CSSDK needs to be installed. You can download the Citrix Server Software Development Kit (CSSDK) from hthttp://apps.citrix.com/CDN/SDK/server_sdk.asp. To install the Citrix Web Console: 1. Insert the Citrix MetaFrame XP Feature Release 2 Server CD into the CD-ROM drive. The Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 for Windows Feature Release 2 window appears. 2. Click Start click Run type: d:\Administration\CWC\cwc.msi 3. Click OK to launch the CWC installtion program. 4. Click Next on the Welcome screen 
5. Read the License Agreement and then click the I accept the license agreement radio button and lick Next. 
6. Click Finish to complete the installation. 
You are now ready to launch the CWC. You can log on to the CWC by going browsing to: http://cwc_webservername/citrix/webconsole.
The following details how to install the CWC on a standalone web IIS web server: 1. Insert the Citrix MetaFrame XP Feature Release 2 Server CD into the CD-ROM drive. The Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 for Windows Feature Release 2 window appears. 2. Click Start Run type: msiexec /i d:\Administration\CWC\cwc.msi CWC_MFCHECK="N" 3. Click OK to launch the CWC installtion program. 4. Click Next on the Welcome screen. 5. Read the License Agreement and then click the I accept the license agreement radio button and lick Next. 6. Click Finish to complete the installation. 7. Browse to C:\Program Files\Citrix\System32\ folder on a MetaFrame XP with Feature Release 2 server and copy mfreg.exe to the %systemroot%\system32 folder of the desired web server. Note: the permissions needed for that account to the mfreg.exe file is read & execute and Read. 8. Click Start click Run type: mfreg.exe citrix_server_name Click OK. 9. On the IIS server, broswe to \inetpub\wwwroot\citrix\webconsole directory. 10. Edit the global.asa file and verify it reads as follows: | <!--METADATA TYPE="typelib" FILE="c:\winnt\system32\mfreg.exe" --> | Note: You will want to subsitute c:\winnt\system32\ with the path and drive letter pointing to the mfreg.exe file you copied in step 6. You are now ready to launch the CWC. You can log on to the CWC by going browsing to: http://cwc_webservername/citrix/webconsole |