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Say you are browsing a Splunk dashboard and notice something odd in the data about a Windows server and you feel compelled to remote in to that server to do some more investigation. Sure, you could pull up your favorite RDP client and connect in. Or, you can save a couple of clicks and RDP to your server directly from the Splunk dashboard in one click. [Read More]

Here is a quick tip to use wildcards in Splunk props.conf stanzas. [Read More]

For Microsoft Windows Operating Systems, it is extremely important that certain services are running to maintain functionality. For instance, if your Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Service is not running, your machine is most likely jacked up. This article will show you how to monitor Windows Services and get a history of service state change history. [Read More]

At Citrix Synergy this year, the "one more thing" at the end of the keynote was a new offering called Citrix Workspace Services. There was immediate debate on Twitter as to how this impacts certain market segments. This article covers ways in which Citrix Workspace Services could help or hinder the Citrix Service Provider Market. [Read More]

Citrix Synergy is back in Anaheim, California this year and I will be live-blogging the keynote. You can watch the keynote live at CitrixSynergy.com as well. I am sure there will be a focus on mobility, but with the release of XenDesktop and XenApp 7.5, I am excited to see Citrix getting back to the future (again). [Read More]

While working on a performance dashboard recently, I wanted an area to further explain the performance metric currently being displayed without taking up too much screen real estate. In the end, I ended up using a Bootstrap modal dialog to display the metric details when a user clicks an information icon. [Read More]

One of the common complaints you will hear from Windows users is that their logon takes too long. This is especially true for Microsoft Remote Desktop Services and Citrix infrastructures. Luckily, Microsoft is logging all the nitty-gritty details in Event Logs. So, naturally, Splunk can give you insight into what's going on. [Read More]

I recently created a dashboard that displayed some information from the Windows Event Logs in a table. The "Message" field was important, but took up a lot of screen real estate. Since a lot of Bootstrap is built right into Splunk 6, adding a little JavaScript allowed me customize the display to show the "Message" field when hovering over some text or icon. [Read More]

Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Session Host hosts multiple users on the same Windows Server Operating System. Therefore, all these users are sharing the same resources available to the OS. A lot of administrators want to know which processes belong to which user and how much resource allocation is used by each of these processes. This way, it is possible to determine power users or application resource hogs. [Read More]

So, what we will be doing today is use a post process search on the IP address to get the geostats. Then, if this post process search returns results, we will dynamically display a dashboard panel with a map next to our table. [Read More]