Version 4.0 of our Remote Desktop Canary solution now offers an integrated Workflow Builder Wizard. This new wizard lets you set up synthetic login tests for your RDS collections and individual session hosts in AVD, Citrix, VMWare, and Parallels RAS in mere minutes. In addition, Canary v4 now offers the new Remote Desktop Canary Program Tester applet, which examines the internal text of launched applications, interpreting whether an app launch was successful. The Remote Desktop Canary Program Tester can even do this for apps with “hard to OCR” text. Plus, there are numerous other new features you will find useful.
[Read more…]Remote Desktop Canary v3.0 Now Available!
Version 3.0 of our Remote Desktop Canary solution now offers several sought after features, namely a Windows service based architecture, a scheduling engine for different types of tests, and automatic collection of relevant event log information from session hosts in the event of a RDP login or connection problem.
[Read more…]Remote Desktop Canary v2.3 Highlights
The release of Version 2.3 of Remote Desktop Canary, our synthetic RDP and WVD monitoring and alerting workhorse, offered a whole batch of powerful new features and improvements:
- WVD support. Whether you’re still using WVD classic (e.g. Fall 2019 Mode), or you’ve migrated over to WVD in ARM mode (e.g. the Spring 2020 Update), Remote Desktop Canary now supports WVD.
- An enhanced workflow cloning wizard. Now, if you want to test each of your session hosts or WVD hosts “all the way to the desktop” using OCR event detection, our new wizard duplicates your test settings across all of your hosts in one easy step.
- We’ve improved our OCR alerting engine, so if specific text you are screening for is not seen within a certain number of seconds, Canary’s email alert will include all of the screenshots during the login sequence. As a result, you will immediately see if the login attempt has stalled while loading user profiles/FSLogix, encountered a black screen, or encountered another issue.
Why Synthetic RDP Monitoring and What Is It Really Anyway?
When we were first beta testing Remote Desktop Canary™, we realized that the phrase “synthetic RDP monitoring” was fairly fresh for some.
Today, there still can be confusion for some about the phrase.
One of the most challenging aspects of monitoring the health of your Remote Desktop Services environment is measuring how quickly it responds to external and internal logins.
