Citrix® StoreFront™ stores monitoring
You can configure a user monitor for a Citrix StoreFront store. The monitor determines the state of the StoreFront store by successively probing the account service, discovery service, and authentication endpoint (if the Citrix StoreFront Store is an authenticated store). If any of those services do not respond to the probe, the monitor probe fails, and the StoreFront store is marked as DOWN. The monitor sends probes to the IP address and port of the bound service. For more information, see Citrix StoreFront Store Services API.
Note: Monitor probes originate from the NSIP address. However, if the subnet of a StoreFront server is different from that of the appliance, then the subnet IP (SNIP) address is used.
Beginning with release 10.1 build 120.13, you can also bind a StoreFront monitor to a service group. A monitor is bound to each member of the service group and probes are sent to the IP address and port of the bound member (service). Also, because each member of a service group is now monitored by using the member's IP address, you can now use the StoreFront monitor to monitor StoreFront cluster nodes that are added as members of the service group.
In earlier releases, the StoreFront monitor tried to authenticate anonymous stores. As a result, a service can be marked as DOWN and you cannot launch Citrix Virtual Apps and Citrix Virtual Desktops™ by using the URL of the load balancing virtual server.
From build 64.x, the probe order has changed. The monitor now determines the state of the StoreFront store by successively probing the account service, the discovery document, and then the authentication service, and skips authentication for anonymous stores.
The host name parameter for StoreFront monitors is deprecated. The secure parameter is now used to determine whether to use HTTP (the default) or HTTPS to send monitor probes.
To use HTTPS, set the secure option to Yes.
Related information
To create a StoreFront monitor by using the command line interface
At the command prompt, type the following commands to configure a StoreFront monitor and verify the configuration:
add lb monitor <monitorName> STOREFRONT <string> -storeName <string> [-storefrontacctservice ( YES | NO )] -secure ( YES | NO )
show lb monitor <monitorName>
Example
add lb monitor storefront_ssl STOREFRONT -storename myStore -storefrontacctservice YES -secure YES
Note:
The monitor is marked as down if the expected 200 OK status code is not returned.
To create a StoreFront monitor by using the configuration utility
Navigate to Traffic Management > Load Balancing > Monitors, and create a monitor of type STOREFRONT.
Note
For more information about the StoreFront monitors, see StoreFront documentation.