| With the release of MetaFrame Feature Release 3, you can now set intervals for ICA Keep-Alives on a MetaFrame XP server farm or server basis. ICA Keep-Alives allows the MetaFrame XP server to take action against broken connections. For example, example, it is not unlikely to have a broken ICA connection to the MetaFrame XP server that still appears active. By enabling ICA Keep-Alives the MetaFrame XP server will send a few packets every x amount of seconds to determine if a connection still exists (x = the Time-out value). If a client device does not respond to the packets then the state of the connection is changed from active to disconnected. The following defines how to configure ICA Keep-Alives farm wide. 1. Open the Management Console for MetaFrame XP, right click on Policies and click Create 
2. Click ICA Keep-Alive in the left pane. Enable ICA Keep-Alives by checking the Enable ICA Keep-Alive checkbox. Specify an interval between 1 and 3600 seconds in which time you would like MetaFrame XP to send an ICA Keep-Alive packet. Click OK when finished. 
The Following defines how to enable ICA Keep-Alives on a per server basis. 1. Open the Management Console for MetaFrame XP and expand the Servers node and then right click on the server you would like to configure ICA Keep-Alives on and click Properties. 
2. Click ICA Keep-Alive in the left pane. Enable ICA Keep-Alives by checking the Enable ICA Keep-Alive checkbox. Specify an interval between 1 and 3600 seconds in which time you would like MetaFrame XP to send an ICA Keep-Alive packet. Click OK when finished. 
Note: ICA Keep-Alive override Keep-Alive settings that are configured in Microsoft Windows Group Policy. You have now successfully enabled ICA Keep Alives to help keep sessions in their correct state.
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