Comments on: Cloning a XenApp server with EdgeSight

By: geetarboy

geetarboy — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:25:49 +0000

I’ve been able to follow your instructions no problem, but I wonder what one is to do when the image needs to be updated for some reason. Is it required to uninstall and reinstall the EdgeSight Agent every time the golden image has to be modified?

By: Heartburn Home Remedy

Heartburn Home Remedy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:36:36 +0000

The style of writing is quite familiar . Have you written guest posts for other bloggers?

By: shannonma

shannonma — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:56:52 +0000

Ben, just noticed your comment. Sorry about the late reply, however you’re right and I’ve updated the blog post.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:25:04 +0000

Shannon,

I replied to a previous post on XenAppPrep. Hopefully your blogging software will notify you of this reply to an older post.

Either the Provisioning Server or EdgeSight Administrator Guides address how to install EdgeSight on a PVS target in shared disk mode and its instructions differ slightly from what you’ve documented here.

As I recall, those documents talk about personalization existing in the registry for EdgeSight and make it a point to say that the EdgeSight agent should not start prior to building the shared image because of this personalization.

From what I can tell based on this post, you’re implying that the only aspect of EdgeSight that we need to be concerned with when working with XenAppPrep and EdgeSight is the EdgeSight DB and that the EdgeSight agent running prior to capturing the image is not a concern as long as the database is removed while the agent is stopped.

Is that assertion correct? Are the discrepancies between your list of steps and those in the admin guides due to the guides being published without consideration for XenAppPrep?

Thanks again for your efforts.

Ben

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