CIS Problem Reporting

Citrix Provisioning allows you to report problems you encounter with servers and sites. The support team uses the information to troubleshoot and diagnose the problem to improve Citrix Provisioning.

How problem reporting works

Problem reporting works by sharing diagnostic information resulting from an event within Citrix Provisioning. It can be performed for a specific Citrix Provisioning server, or for a site:

• If you have an environment with multiple provisioning servers, each has a different SOAP Service user. In such environments, the SOAP Service user must have read\write permissions to the network share when generating the diagnostic bundle.
• If you are reporting a problem for a specific provisioning server, only that server generates a diagnostic bundle that captures the event.
• If you are reporting a problem for a site, each provisioning server in the site generates a diagnostic bundle.
• Save the diagnostic bundle to a shared network drive.

Note:

Citrix customer support provides instructions on making the diagnostic bundle available to them.

Report a problem using the NETWORK SERVICE user account

You can set up your system to generate problem reports for the NETWORK SERVICE user.

To enable the NETWORK SERVICE user to collect information and read from the registry, first make NETWORK SERVICE a local admin of your Provisioning server. Then give the user read/write permissions to the network share where the report is generated.

To make the NETWORK SERVICE user a local admin of your Provisioning server:

1. 登录到虚拟机作为本地管理员。
2. From the Start menu, selectAdministrative tools > Computer Management > Groups > Users．
3. Add the user NETWORK SERVICE. From the Select Users dialog box, selectLocationand verify that you’re adding the user to the local VM.
4. Add the user NETWORK SERVICE to the Administrators group. From the Start menu, selectAdministrative tools > Computer Management > Groups > Administrators．From the Select Users dialog box, selectLocationand verify that you’re adding the administrator to the local VM.

To give the NETWORK SERVICE user read/write permissions to the network share:

1. 网络共享文件夹上单击右键并选择Folder > Properties．On the Sharing tab, set the folder toShared．
2. On the Security tab, make sure the NETWORK SERVICE user has read/write permissions.
3. In the Citrix Provisioning Configuration wizard, selectNetwork service accountas the Stream and SOAP Services user account. This gives the NETWORK SERVICE user read/write access toProgramData\Citrix\Provisioning Services, where the report files are generated until upload.

Report a problem

You can generate diagnostic information locally to a ZIP file. Select an empty folder on a shared network drive accessible to all servers included in the problem report.

To report a problem

1. In theCitrix Provisioning Console, expand theSitesnode to display the server on which you want to report a problem.

2. Right-click a server to display a contextual menu.

3. ClickReport a problem．

   

4. In theProblem Reportscreen, save the diagnostic bundle to an empty folder. This must be a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path that is accessible to all servers in the site.

   

5. ClickNext．

   Note:

   Each server in the selected site generates its own diagnostic bundle.

6. Specify information to help describe the issue. In theSpecify Problem Detailsscreen:

   1. Enter a brief description that summarizes the problem. Once you enter the information for this mandatory field the remaining fields become editable.
   2. Enter a support case number (optional).
   3. Select the date when the problem occurred.
   4. Enter an approximate time when the problem occurred.
   5. Enter a description that characterizes the problem.

7. ClickFinish．

   

   Tip:

   After finishing the diagnostic report, the bundle is created on the server. You can view the status of the most recent problem report fromServer>Property>Problem Report．

After clickingFinish, the problem reporting function reports the issue for either a single server, or for each server in a site. Each server generates the problem report as a background task and saves the file to a shared network drive.

TheStatusfield displays information about the state of the reporting progress. After the process starts, clickDoneto dismiss the dialog, and allow the process to continue in the background:

If you choose not to dismiss the dialog, the process continues in the foreground. After the report completes, theProblem Reportscreen provides additional informationCheck each Server’s Properties for results.This message indicates that each server has completed its problem report and saves the results.

After the problem report is generated, you can view the results on thePropertiesscreen. To view the report, selectServer>Properties．

TheProblem Reporttab displays:

• Most recent problem report．This field displays the date and time of the most recent problem reporting attempt.
• Summary．This field describes the problem. The information is generated from the mandatory summary field specified when the administrator first created the report.
• Status．备注说明ibes the status of the most recent report. It indicates:
  • Success or failure
  • Whether the report was saved to a shared network drive. If so, the full path to the file is displayed.