I want to programmatically launch xendesktop and see whether it is launched or not for monitoring purposes.I understand that if somehow I can get the ica file then passing that ica file to ica client can solve my problem.
I read that citrix has ICO API but I am not able to use it to launch my desktop.
Can someone pls throw some light on this?
Thanks in advance
ICO API in real-world scenarios is not enough.
You need to get your VDI address from StoreFront API https://github.com/citrix/storefront-sdk. Here you can download the whole ICA file and just launch it. I'm downloading it, modifying to run windowed and then just run ICA. Windows do the rest. The other possibility is to download ICA using StoreFront API, get Address from there and connect to the machine using this Address. It's actually IP and port for your VDI desktop.
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I`m totally new to Bloomberg and using Bloomberg api in python/flask
I tried to read all the documentation provided by the windows SDK
I understand that DAPI is only for local applications using localhost and default port
but actually I am confused about the usage of SAPI Installation and usage...
First:
after installing sapi on machine with bloomberg terminal and letting the sapi process up , I will write an application by python code that import blbapi and use the sapi
should this application be on the same machine , or it can be on another machine and give it the ip and port of the sapi process and should the other machine have bloomberg terminal too?
second:
what about the client side, any browser which open this application should the clients have bloomberg terminal too??
Excuse my naive question ..
Thanx in advance
Python application machine doesn't have to have a Bloomberg terminal installed. You will only need Bloomberg libraries installed (but not terminal) software.
You need to provide "ip of terminal pc" + "uuid" when making a connection to SAPI.
Also, the user/terminal must be logged in.
Check and be very careful with licensing. You can try asking your account manager.
Don't take this as licensing advice, but different exchanges and data sources can have different rules around the data so it depends what data you pulling. As I understand the data pulled by a user/script is for that specific terminal owner only.
Different terminal "owners" with the same access might not be allowed to see the data pulled by other scripts/users.
SAPI allows you to use BBG data off the machine where the user is logged in HOWEVER this data can not be viewed by anyone but the logged in user - for legal reasons rather than technical ones.
The typical use case for SAPI is there complicated calculatios (be it exotic pricing or realtime portfolio risk) is being performed that aren't practical on the desktop.
Be aware that all BBG data and calculations are tied to the user, the data can't be given to anyone else...
I'm attempting to use the wget program to retrieve and save a list of data from my Siemens S7-1200 PLC. Using a batch file I had written I was able drill down the folder path to my wget.exe file. Upon running the wget executable I get the error message seen in the attached screenshot, labeled "Command Prompt Screenshot".
The command prompt shows me that I've "connected" and I know the username and password are correct because I can log into the PLC using my web browser. It's for those reasons I'm stumped on what the problem is.
Has anyone seen this before or can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks for the response Ken. I was actually able to get it working with the assistance of the Siemens technical support. Apparently my computer didn't like the way I was trying to pass it the username and password login credentials. Through Siemens TIA Portal software I was able remove the login restrictions, allowing all users access to reading data off the PLC and it works now. I've attached a copy of the exact batch file I used. Also, to make sure I'm adding as much detail as possible, I have the batch file and the wget.exe file saved to a folder on my c:\ drive. Functional wget batch file
Apologies in advance for somewhat vague information. I am new to Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop technology and am just looking for generic troubleshooting information.
At my place of employment we have kiosks that are configured to connect to a SaaS webapp. These kiosk have either the Citrix XenApp or XenDesktop installed.
One of the icons launches the IE browser that connects to the SaaS app using a preconfigured user account. Sometimes, however, instead of launching the browser, the system displays the "The session limit has been reached. Please contact your system administrator." error shown in below image.
The people administering these kiosks think that this message comes from the SaaS web application but that application does not enforce any limits on how many session are open for a given account under a given time.
Also considering how Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop works I would think (but maybe I am wrong) that if the SaaS app did reject a user login, we would be displayed an error message in Internet Explorer instead of this ICA prompt.
So I think that the issue here could be that the message is not about login sessions made to the background SaaS app but either about Citrix sessions or perhaps previous IE browsers somehow running in the background(?)
However our company's Citrix team looked at this and noticed that "Citrix was still active" when this prompt was displayed. The conclusion was then that Citrix is for that reason not the cause here.
So I wanted here to ask some questions on what things I could consider as causes and where I could look in the hopes of getting started on this issue.
This would be for XenApp / XenDesktop 7.18.
The questions I have:
Does XenApp / XenDesktop have log files that can be consulted for
debugging issues like this?
Is it possible to get XenApp / XenDesktop to run in debug mode (to
output more details to the log files)?
Does Citrix have configuration settings that could lead it to
have an issue like this?
A. First check the event logs and see when you facing this issue so does any event logs generated.
B. Also you can check the ICA configuration tool for session settings and checked if session settings are set to NEVER.
C. The ICA listener configuration tool is located at Start > All Programs > Citrix > Administration Tools > ICA Listener Configuration.
You are on the right track with the SaaS application itself reporting the error. If this Citrix session was already active when the icon was clicked again and the preconfigured user was already logged into the SaaS application, that would account for this error. To investigate, logout the Citrix session and try clicking the icon again, or check SaaS application to see if that preconfigured users is already connected.
Is the same user used for all these kiosks or is each kiosk supposed to have a unique user? Can this preconfigured user log in multiple times?
Our application has been changed from ".exe" to virtual application launched via "Microsoft Application Virtualization Client".
QTP is unable to identify any objects even with the same add-ins (which was working before). What could be the possible reason for the odd behaviour?
QTP : 10, Win7 64 bit OS.
Let me know for additional info. Thanks in advance!
When this application is launched via Microsoft Virtual Client it has limited interaction with local applications. For the same reason QTP\UFT is unable to identify the object of AUT. To overcome this issue you have to set "LOCAL_INTERACTION_ALLOW" to TRUE in the Application OSD file.
You can find the file in the OSD Cache folder in the program data of Microsoft Virtual Client.
Reconnecting to the same published application from different machine.
Using XENAPP, Lets say I have published a custom .net application (test.exe) and assume that it provides some mspaint like funcationality such as load an image from disk and modify using the tools provided in test.exe . Lets assume this resides on Server A.
The clients connects to the server A through citrix ICA Session , launches the test.exe and begins to use this application.
If the user decides to log from a different machine, Is it possible to connect to the same session ( knowing that I know the user name, pwd, etc to logon to the same session) , so that I can start to use the application from where I left off ? instead of again launching the test.exe ?
In short I would like to reconnect to the published application from where I left off from differnt machine.
-Thanks
Yes, this is default functionality in Citrix XenApp. It's called Workspace Control. (the link describes Presentation Server 4.0/4.5 but the functionality is the same)