Edgesight has at best some mediocre reports. The reports seem really useful at first glance, but when you are after a specific set of data it can be hard to come by. Below is a step by step guide to reporting external connections into your Citrix environment.

First, we need to uniquely identify users as they come through the access gateway. To do this we change the web interface site to tag workstation names differently for access gateway connections.

Log into your web interface and Identify the site used for your access gateway.

• For Web Interface 4.5 and 4.6
  • edit the session.aspxf file located in the C:inetpubwwwrootCitrix<site name>app_datasiteserverscripts folder.
• For Web Interface 5.0
  • edit the SessionUtils.java file located in the C:inetpubwwwrootCitrix<site name>app_codePagesJavacomcitrixwipageutils folder.
• In either case, change the following line

From: deviceInfo.setClientName(clientName);
To: deviceInfo.setClientName(clientName.Replace("WI_","AG_"));

Note: The length of the client name must remain the same. For example, WEB0 cannot be substituted for WI_

Now that your users will be uniquely identified with their client name starting with AG_, time to move to edgesight and write your custom user group:

Open the Edgesight client, and browse to user configuration:

Select user groups from the left hand menu

Select new user group

Name the user group something relevant e.g. Access gateway users, and press “Create user group”.

Select Queries and choose next

again, give the query a relevant name, and enter the following in the query:

Select sessid from vw_es_usergroup_ica_users where client_name like "ag_%"

Save the query, then click back, then next again.

Choose the new query you have created from the list, then choose Add query below.

Now select Finish.

Now we wait until the next data upload occurs. This is configured in your agent properties…

Once the data upload has occured, move to the Browse tab in edgesight

Find the report near the bottom called “user login details for a user group”

Select the user group you specified from the user group dropdown, then choose Group by Date, then by user then by all.

you should now get a meaningful report on access gateway connections: