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Horizon Reach – Insight in you Horizon environment

I’ve been posting about monitoring Horizon with PRTG, but what if you don’t (yet) have PRTG or any other monitoring system? Or you’re in need of a low-cost but efficient insight into your VMware Horizon environment? Well, now you have Horizon Reach. Horizon Reach Horizon Reach is one of the great VMware Flings, tools created by VMware engineers and other contributors, unsupported, but mostly very handy or with great added… Read More »Horizon Reach – Insight in you Horizon environment

VMware Horizon – Powershell scripting (Problem VMs)

In the next post of this series, we’ll have a look at querying the number of Problem vCenter VM’s from VMware Horizon. The number of problem VM’s in Horizon can be seen in the Flash based administrator console in the upper left corner: Problem VMs If you click on the number next to Problem vCenter VMs, you get a list of all the VM’s that are in a non-normal status.… Read More »VMware Horizon – Powershell scripting (Problem VMs)

VMware Horizon – Powershell scripting (Connection servers)

In the previous post “ViewAPI” we installed the necessary modules and learned how to (dis-)connect to our Horizon Connection server. In this part, we’ll get information from that ViewAPI about the connection servers in our environment. Connection server information Let’s start by getting some information about our Connection servers. Therefore we use the property ConnectionServerHealth. We’ll retrieve an array containing all our Connection servers with their basic information like name,… Read More »VMware Horizon – Powershell scripting (Connection servers)

VMware Horizon – Powershell scripting (ViewAPI)

I’ll be starting my new blog with a series of posts about using Powerschell to get information about a VMware Horizon infrastructure. I’m using PRTG as my monitoring system because it has very flexible customized scripting capabilities. This way you can just monitor anything by writing your own scripts (if it’s not already builtin). Requirements First things first. We’ll need to make sure we have installed the VMware.VIMAutomation.Core & VMware.VIMAutomation.HorizonView… Read More »VMware Horizon – Powershell scripting (ViewAPI)