LB/Pub App Question

[Voyager1]

Here's a neat one...

I have 2 servers which are identically configured and running a load balanced published application. In PAM the app is defined, and pointed to both servers.

For maintenance, I want to take one of the servers out of the LB and send all users to the other one. I open PAM, locate the properties of the application, and remove one of the servers from the 'configured' list. Simple enough...

About 30 minutes later, that server is back in the list for that application. ????

I can't disable new logons, because I have to administer the server remotely.

Ideas??? TIA... - Bill

"You can get anything you want out of life, if you'll just help enough other people get what they want" - Zig Ziglar

 

[CitrixEngineer]

How about disabling all ICA connection, via Citrix Server Administration, and accessing the server via a Terminal Server client?

Hope this helps

 

[Voyager1]

That would work fine, but there are other applications on this server that need to stay available.

Thanks for the response - I'm stumped... - Bill

"You can get anything you want out of life, if you'll just help enough other people get what they want" - Zig Ziglar

 

[CitrixEngineer]

I can't think of anything slicker, but a clunky way of doing it would be to remove the user groups from the apps on that server, using PAM;

I'm a bit confused as to why you would want to do maintenance on a live server anyway? Your original posting said that you wanted to get all the users off!

 

[Voyager1]

We want to get all of the users off of a particular application to replace a couple of app-specific DLLs and the .EXE. It's a home-grown app for the company I'm consulting for.

Turns out that the .ICA file for the app may be involved. We'll see... - Bill

"You can get anything you want out of life, if you'll just help enough other people get what they want" - Zig Ziglar

 

[DevilDog]

Bill...

There are two articles on the Citrix web site related to your problem; CTX012714 (How to delete a farm created in PAM - says that "a server cannot be removed from a farm!) and CTX250410 (How to delete a server farm in MF...)

Anyway, sounds to me like you do not wish to remove the server from the farm, just from one of the applications, so you can do maintenance on it. Correct?

If going via PAM is not working than try a registry change; HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ICABrowser\Parameters There is a value name = ManagedAppNames. This holds a list of all published apps on that server. Delete the app that you are doing maintenance on.

If this still does not work than you might want to consider deleting the whole "parameter" key. I would save it 1st.