| The Citrix Web Console (CWC) gives you the ability to monitor and perform helpdesk type administration on your MetaFrame XP server farms securely through a Web browser. You can view information about a server farm, including its active sessions, published applications, servers, and users. Administrators can manage sessions by logging off sessions, shadowing sessions, disconnecting sessions and sending messages to users. 
The CWC can be installed in a MetaFrame XP server running IIS and or a standalone IIS 5.0 or above web server. I highly recommend that you leave MetaFrame XP to run published applications and install the CWC on a miscellaneous web server or the Web Interface web server. The Citrix Web Console obtains its information by utilizing the MFCOM component of the Citrix Server Software Development Kit (CSSDK). Because MFCOM is a COM server, its objects and interfaces are available to all COM clients. The COM clients can be run on the same server that MFCOM is running, or from a remote system using DCOM. Thus to install and run the Citrix Web Console from a server without MetaFrame XP, the MFCOM portion of the CSSDK needs to be installed. You can download the Citrix Server Software Development Kit (CSSDK) from http://apps.citrix.com/CDN/SDK/server_sdk.asp.
To install the Citrix Web Console: 1. Insert the Citrix MetaFrame XP Feature Release 3 Server CD into the CD-ROM drive. The Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 for Windows Feature Release 3 window appears. 2. Click Start click Run type: d:\Administration\CWC\cwc.msi 3. Click OK to launch the CWC installtion program. 4. Click Next on the Welcome screen 
5. Read the License Agreement and then click the I accept the license agreement radio button and lick Next. 
6. Click Finish to complete the installation. 
You are now ready to launch the CWC. You can log on to the CWC by going browsing to: http://cwc_webservername/citrix/webconsole.
The following details how to install the CWC on a standalone web IIS web server: 1. Insert the Citrix MetaFrame XP Feature Release 3 Server CD into the CD-ROM drive. The Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 for Windows Feature Release 3 window appears. 2. Click Start Run type: msiexec /i d:\Administration\CWC\cwc.msi CWC_MFCHECK="N" 3. Click OK to launch the CWC installtion program. 4. Click Next on the Welcome screen. 5. Read the License Agreement and then click the I accept the license agreement radio button and lick Next. 6. Click Finish to complete the installation. 7. Browse to C:\Program Files\Citrix\System32\ folder on a MetaFrame XP with Feature Release 3 server and copy mfreg.exe to the %systemroot%\system32 folder of the desired web server. Note: the permissions needed for that account to the mfreg.exe file is read & execute and Read. 8. Click Start click Run type: mfreg.exe citrix_server_name Click OK. 9. On the IIS server, broswe to \inetpub\wwwroot\citrix\webconsole directory. 10. Edit the global.asa file and verify it reads as follows: <!--METADATA TYPE="typelib" FILE="c:\winnt\system32\mfreg.exe" --> 11. Note: You will want to subsitute c:\winnt\system32\ with the path and drive letter pointing to the mfreg.exe file you copied in step 7. You are now ready to launch the CWC. You can log on to the CWC by going browsing to: http://cwc_webservername/citrix/webconsole MetaFrame XP offers a choice of three ICA Win32 Clients, and an ICA Java Client for use on 32-bit Windows systems and other java compliant devices. The following is a little about each of the clients: ICA Win32 Program Neighborhood Agent The state-of-the-art ICA Win32 Client Transparent integration of published resources with the client desktop Native support for the full feature set of MetaFrame XP Native support for the Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP operating systems Requires Web Interface 2.1 ICA Win32 Web Client The lean ICA Win32 Client for quick distribution Web browser-based access to published resources from links on your Web page No user interface, completely hands-off user experience Limited support for the full feature set of MetaFrame XP Native support for the Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems Requires Web Interface 2.1 or Application Launching and Embedding (ALE) ICA Win32 Program Neighborhood Client Program Neighborhood user interface Requires initial user configuration Native support for MetaFrame XP features Native support for the Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems Does not require Web Interface 2.1 ICA Java Client The platform-independent, zero-install ICA Client No user interface, completely hands-off user experience Limited support for the full feature set of MetaFrame XP
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