Configure and Troubleshoot Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Services
If you need to troubleshoot your environment it is often crucial to have as much information about the environment you can get. If you need to troubleshoot XenDesktop or XenApp environments and especially the services you can start the service executables with the -logfile switch and the path where you want to store the log files:
Example
“C:\Program Files\CitrixAdIdentity\Service\Citrix.ADIdentity.exe” -logfile “%temp%\ADIdentity.log”
This should give you some more insights about what these services are doing. To check for common configuration issues of a Controller you should also take a look at the XDPing tool at https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX123278
Every service has additional options. I have consecutively enlisted the services with their parameters on a XenDesktop 7.x Controller. This way you can see that there is more to configure than the log file location. Ports, Firewall-options, installations and uninstallations can be done this way too.
AD.Identityservice
PS C:\Program Files\Citrix\AdIdentity\Service> .\Citrix.ADIdentity.exe /?
Parameters:
- -? or -Help (Display this usage message)
- Show (Show existing settings)
- SdkPort
(Configure the port for the administration SDK)
- KeyPort
(Configure the port for the peer-service SDK)
- SvcPort
(Configure the port for the inter-service SDK)
- ConfigureFirewall (Update Windows Firewall exclusions for the configured ports)
- Logfile (Configure logging to go to )
- Uninstall (Remove configuration settings, including Windows Firewall exclusions, and reserved URLs)
- Upgrade (Perform actions needed after an upgrade of the service to a new version)
- Quiet (Do not output status messages)
Broker Service
PS C:\Program Files\Citrix\Broker\Service> .\BrokerService.exe /?
Parameters:
- -? or -Help (Display this usage message.)
- -Show (Show existing settings.)
- -SdkPort
(Configure the port for the administration SDK.)
- -VdaPort
(Configure the port to listen for VDA registrations.)
- -WiPort
(Configure the port to listen for Web Interface XML requests.)
- -WiSslPort
(Configure the port to listen for Web Interface XML requests when using SSL.)
- -ConfigureFirewall (Update Windows Firewall exclusions for the configured ports.)
- -LogFile (Configure logging to go to .)
- -Uninstall (Remove configuration settings, including Windows Firewall exclusions, and reserved URLs.)
- -Upgrade (Perform actions needed after an upgrade of the broker service to a new version.)
- -Quiet (Do not output status messages.)
Configuration Service
PS C:\Program Files\Citrix\Configuration\Service> .\Citrix.Configuration.exe /?
Parameters:
- -? or -Help (Display this usage message)
- -Show (Show existing settings)
- -SdkPort
(Configure the port for the administration SDK)
- -SvcPort
(Configure the port for the inter-service SDK)
- -ConfigureFirewall (Update Windows Firewall exclusions for the configured ports)
- -Logfile (Configure logging to go to )
- -Uninstall (Remove configuration settings, including Windows Firewall exclusions, and reserved URLs)
- -Upgrade (Perform actions needed after an upgrade of the service to a new version)
- -Quiet (Do not output status messages)
Configuration Logging Service
PS C:\Program Files\Citrix\ConfigurationLogging\Service> .\Citrix.ConfigurationLogging.exe /?
Parameters:
- -? or -Help (Display this usage message)
- -Show (Show existing settings)
- -SdkPort
(Configure the port for the administration SDK)
- -SvcPort
(Configure the port for the inter-service SDK)
- -ConfigureFirewall (Update Windows Firewall exclusions for the configured ports)
- -Logfile (Configure logging to go to )
- -Uninstall (Remove configuration settings, including Windows Firewall exclusions, and reserved URLs)
- -Upgrade (Perform actions needed after an upgrade of the service to a new version)
- -Quiet (Do not output status messages)
Delegated Admin Service
PS C:\Program Files\Citrix\DelegatedAdmin\Service> .\Citrix.DelegatedAdmin.exe /?
Parameters:
- -? or -Help (Display this usage message)
- -Show (Show existing settings)
- -SdkPort
(Configure the port for the administration SDK)
- -SvcPort
(Configure the port for the inter-service SDK)
- -ConfigureFirewall (Update Windows Firewall exclusions for the configured ports)
- -Logfile (Configure logging to go to )
- -Uninstall (Remove configuration settings, including Windows Firewall exclusions, and reserved URLs)
- -Upgrade (Perform actions needed after an upgrade of the service to a new version)
- -Quiet (Do not output status messages)
Delegated Admin Service
PS C:\Program Files\Citrix\EnvTest\Service> .\Citrix.EnvTest.exe /?
Parameters:
- -? or -Help (Display this usage message)
- -Show (Show existing settings)
- -SdkPort
(Configure the port for the administration SDK)
- -SvcPort
(Configure the port for the inter-service SDK)
- -ConfigureFirewall (Update Windows Firewall exclusions for the configured ports)
- -Logfile (Configure logging to go to )
- -Uninstall (Remove configuration settings, including Windows Firewall exclusions, and reserved URLs)
- -Upgrade (Perform actions needed after an upgrade of the service to a new version)
- -Quiet (Do not output status messages)
Citrix Host Service
PS C:\Program Files\Citrix\host\service> .\Citrix.Host.exe /?
Parameters:
- -? or -Help (Display this usage message)
- -Show (Show existing settings)
- -SdkPort
(Configure the port for the administration SDK)
- -KeyPort
(Configure the port for the peer-service SDK)
- -SvcPort
(Configure the port for the inter-service SDK)
- -ConfigureFirewall (Update Windows Firewall exclusions for the configured ports)
- -Logfile (Configure logging to go to )
- -Uninstall (Remove configuration settings, including Windows Firewall exclusions, and reserved URLs)
- -Upgrade (Perform actions needed after an upgrade of the service to a new version)
- -Quiet (Do not output status messages)
Machine Creation Service
PS C:\Program Files\Citrix\MachineCreation\Service> .\Citrix.MachineCreation.exe /?
Parameters:
- -? or -Help (Display this usage message)
- -Show (Show existing settings)
- -SdkPort
(Configure the port for the administration SDK)
- -SvcPort
(Configure the port for the inter-service SDK)
- -ConfigureFirewall (Update Windows Firewall exclusions for the configured ports)
- -Logfile (Configure logging to go to )
- -Uninstall (Remove configuration settings, including Windows Firewall exclusions, and reserved URLs)
- -Upgrade (Perform actions needed after an upgrade of the service to a new version)
- -Quiet (Do not output status messages)
Monitor Service
PS C:\Program Files\Citrix\Monitor\Service> .\Citrix.Monitor.exe /?
Parameters:
- -? or -Help (Display this usage message)
- -Show (Show existing settings)
- -SdkPort
(Configure the port for the administration SDK)
- -SvcPort
(Configure the port for the inter-service SDK)
- -ODataPort
(Configure the port for the OData SDK)
- -RequireODataSsl (Requires all OData SDK HTTP traffic be encrypted by SSL)
- -ConfigureFirewall (Update Windows Firewall exclusions for the configured ports)
- -Logfile (Configure logging to go to )
- -Uninstall (Remove configuration settings, including Windows Firewall exclusions, and reserved URLs)
- -Upgrade (Perform actions needed after an upgrade of the service to a new version)
- -Quiet (Do not output status messages)
StoreFront Service
PS C:\Program Files\Citrix\Storefront\Service> .\Citrix.Storefront.exe /?
Parameters:
- -? or -Help (Display this usage message)
- -Show (Show existing settings)
- -SdkPort
(Configure the port for the administration SDK)
- -SvcPort
(Configure the port for the inter-service SDK)
- -ConfigureFirewall (Update Windows Firewall exclusions for the configured ports)
- -Logfile (Configure logging to go to )
- -Uninstall (Remove configuration settings, including Windows Firewall exclusions, and reserved URLs)
- -Upgrade (Perform actions needed after an upgrade of the service to a new version)
- -Quiet (Do not output status messages)
All information without warranty for any failures in your environment.
Cheers,
Sinisa
