Audit and Remote Assistance for the VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop Toolbox

VMware Horizon Products Deliver industry-leading virtual desktop services that are safe, convenient, and efficient, and are becoming the best choice for next-generation enterprise desktops. Today, we recommend a "Horizon toolkit" software developed by VMware, which adds a very powerful audit and Remote Assistance feature to the Horizon 6 virtual desktops. And all users who have already deployed Horizon 6 virtual desktops are free to download it from the official website (https://labs.vmware.com/flings/view-auditing-portal).

This toolbox software can be installed directly in on the Horizon View Connection server, it provides a simple and easy-to-use web interface that users need to log into using the existing Horizon administrator account. The main features of the 1.5 version of the software include audit, Remote Assistance, and device whitelist, which will be added to the Desktop policy Management feature in the next 2.0 releases.

First, audit

Let's start by looking at the audit tool for this software, which has the following features:

· Audit The number of concurrent sessions for the entire VDI environment or for a particular desktop pool over a period of time

· Audit time for a user to use VDI desktops and applications over time

· Audit The version of the Horizon view client and the distribution of the operating system

· Audit analytics usage of parent desktop snapshots for linked clone pools

1. number of concurrent sessions audited

After the administrator logs in, the first thing you see is a trend graph of the number of concurrent sessions in the past week. The number of concurrent sessions refers to the sum of virtual desktops and applications that are connected at the same time. The larger the value, the larger the system load. Administrators can also choose to view graphs for the past two days, or for the past one months. If an administrator wants to know the number of history sessions for a particular desktop pool or application pool, you can select a specific pool name from the drop-down menu.

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below the concurrent session graph , is the current when carved every desktop pool and should be the use of the pool will words number.

2. User Time of the trial count

if Management To see the virtual desktop usage of a specific user, you can use the mouse to select the menu bar at the top of the page Auditing->usersusage ", a bar chart and a table are displayed. The horizontal axis of the histogram is the user name, and the ordinate is the time that the user accumulated the virtual desktop over the past week (or one months). The table below shows the historical usage of all users. Each row corresponds to a user's use of a virtual desktop, including user name, connection time, disconnect time, desktop pool name, virtual machine name, etc. The administrator can search by user name and export the data to a spreadsheet file and download it to their own machine.

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3. Audit Horizon client

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4. Audit linked clone Pool parent Desktop Snapshot

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Second, Remote Assistance

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the administrator will Web Management interface See the following request, click on the "startassist" green triangle button to launch a Remote Assistance tool, the administrator will see this ordinary user's current desktop.

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The administrator can request the operation of the user's desktop, after the general user agrees, the administrator obtains the user's desktop the Operation permission.

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If you want to know more about this toolbox Details or Find Support, Please Noboribetsu Record Horizon Toolbox Official website and message Https://labs.vmware.com/flings/view-auditing-portal

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Ten San Po

VMware End-User computing engineer, rich experience in virtualization products and solutions development. Currently committed to end-user computing product solution development work.

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Audit and Remote Assistance for the VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop Toolbox