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Hi!
First post here, hope I can explain my question.
Is there a way to drainstop a terminal server when users are connecting through vWorspace Connection Broker (7.1)?
Our setup is that multiple terminal servers (or remote desktop servers) shares a published application (desktop). If you remove a server from that published app, the users are not connecting to the removed server (as it should be).
Now, can you somehow remove a server from a published app, but allow disconnected sessions (that is connected to the removed server) to still be able to reconnect to that server? New users with no active (or disconnected) sessions will be connected to a server that is still active and shares the app.
Regards,
Alexander
I am sure someone will correct me but...no.
A server can either be an available server or not for a published app. You would have to create a secondary app to give the group of people that are in a disconnected state and manage that manually. Not pretty.
DELL-Andrew W1
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Posted November 1st, 2010 09:00
Hello,
Instead of removing the Server from a Published App, I would try the following.
1. Create a new workload evaluator with a "Number of Users" Counter
2. Set the Max number of Users to 0
3. Assign this Workload Evaluator directly to the Terminal Server that you wish to Disable.
This should stop new connections but allow existing disconnected sessions to re-connect.
There are certain setups where this method won't work - but give it a go, it might be ideal for you.
Thanks, Andrew.
Hi Andrew!
We tried this, but it did not work... I created a "Workload Evaluator" with the counter "Number of Users" to a "Max Value" of 0... Users without disconnected sessions were still able to logon to the server where I applied this Workload Evaluator (are currently using 2 terminal servers with a published desktop).
Regards,
Alexander
I always drainstop the servers from the server itself
Enable, disable, or drain session logins.
CHANGE LOGON {/QUERY | /ENABLE | /DISABLE | /DRAIN | /DRAINUNTILRESTART}
/QUERY Query current session login mode.
/ENABLE Enable user login from sessions.
/DISABLE Disable user login from sessions.
/DRAIN Disable new user logons, but allow reconnections to existing sessions.
/DRAINUNTILRESTART Disable new user logons until the server is restarted, but allow reconnections to existing sessions.DELL-Andrew W1
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Posted November 1st, 2010 12:00
If you have a Workload evaluator on the published app, this may override the W.E applied at the TS level.
DELL-Jon Ro
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Posted November 3rd, 2010 21:00
OK - we've been looking at this today. The Enable/Disable Logons feature works in 7.1 and 7.2 beta 2 for x86 Terminal Servers. In the final version of 7.2 we will support x64 Terminal Servers and Session Hosts.