It appears to me that maintenance mode is unable to do what I want: take a machine out of rotation so it can be patched, etc. The scenario is this: a delivery group with three machines serving applications; put machine A into maintenance mode so it won't accept new connections; notify users on that server to close apps & logout/login; once all users/sessions have bled off the server, take it down for maintenance.
The problem is that when users close apps and logout of StoreFront, their disconnected session remains on the server, and upon login Citrix will happily put them back on that server, even though it's in "maintenance mode". Docs indicate this is the designed behavoir. How could this ever work in any practical way? I can't just notify users and wait for sessions to bleed off the server; I now have to coordinate among ALL users, make sure they ALL logoff and stay logged off, until I can manually remove all those disconnected sessions, and only then have them login and launch apps again.
Am I missing something, and has anyone found a practical way to use this for, you know, doing actual maintenance?
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Joe Pawlicki
XD7.1=Server OS+Published apps
It appears to me that maintenance mode is unable to do what I want: take a machine out of rotation so it can be patched, etc. The scenario is this: a delivery group with three machines serving applications; put machine A into maintenance mode so it won't accept new connections; notify users on that server to close apps & logout/login; once all users/sessions have bled off the server, take it down for maintenance.
The problem is that when users close apps and logout of StoreFront, their disconnected session remains on the server, and upon login Citrix will happily put them back on that server, even though it's in "maintenance mode". Docs indicate this is the designed behavoir. How could this ever work in any practical way? I can't just notify users and wait for sessions to bleed off the server; I now have to coordinate among ALL users, make sure they ALL logoff and stay logged off, until I can manually remove all those disconnected sessions, and only then have them login and launch apps again.
Am I missing something, and has anyone found a practical way to use this for, you know, doing actual maintenance?
Thx.
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