Regmon....????

[Highland]

Anybody used Regmon on Citrix Servers.....????

Any tips etc. for filter set-up, best practices....???

thanks............

 

[woonbronmaasoevers]

i used regmon in citrix.

Too bad i cant select a user in this program. now it shows every regkey used on a server.

what would you like to know about this program?

gr,
danny

 

[Highland]

Was just wondering how you went about tracking faults in particular applications using Regmon......like what to use in the filters, what fields to check, meaning of status messages (especially the "not found" one....it doesn't seem to mean that the application WONT run...????!!!!)

Basically I was hoping to use Regmon to help identify a fault with an applicaion that sometimes will run and sometimes not....???? I have noticed that the Citrix Compatibility key reports as "Not Found".....does this mean that the App is not compatible for a Citrix environment...??? If so, why does it still run sometimes...????

Yeah, the user thing is a problem....???? Didn't expect so many keys to be accessed...!!!!

 

[woonbronmaasoevers]

No there are many MANY "NOT FOUNDS" in regmon. do not pay attention to this fault. if i use regmon i export it to a txt file. open it with notepad an search for "DENIED" or something. If this key is there you shoul look in regedt32.

In regedt32 find the key that said acc denied. look what the permissions are on that key...

greets,
Danny
dschuller@maasoevers.nl

 

[CitrixEngineer]

You can open Regmon or Filemon logs in Excel (or your favourite spreadsheet program) as CSV files, then use the Data Sort facility to find all ACCESS DENIEDs or similar (obviously we are not interested in SUCCESS!).

Saves an awful lot of trawling, and acts as a filter, of sorts.

I hope this helps CitrixEngineer@yahoo.co.uk

 

[Highland]

Managed to log both a successful startup and a failure for the program in question.....

Neither appear to record any Access Denied occurances so I presume I'm not looking at a registry "problem"....???

I'm actually a bit suspicious as to this programs "multi-user" capability, ie if it will run in a Citrix Environment.....

Thanks for your suggestions/help..........

 

[Guest_imported]

I dont know; Did you run the program that has the fould when regmon was opened?

This is needed because then it access the regkeys

(i dont know if you did this)

gr,
Danny

 

[Highland]

Yeah, I have "trapped" the registry access from Regmon for both the program opening successfully and failing, trying to look through the data I have trapped to see where it is failing....!!!! There are no obvious "Access Denied" messages so I'm just trying to see any differences in the Regmon captures......

thanks...............

 

[woonbronmaasoevers]

than you can conclude thats its not a permissionfault

hmm.. what program has a error?

gr,
Danny

 

[Highland]

Yeah, I was sort of hoping that it was Permissions....

Anyway its a program called Masterbill, it uses a product Deskey as its "transport" between Client/Server (I think Deskey provides some sort of encryption..???)

I've had a quick look at the captures from regmon...I'll need to verify this but it looks like when a successful "connection" is made that the registry is passing the Citrix server name when querying certain values, when it fails to start it looks like it passes a hex value at the same points....????

thanks

 

[woonbronmaasoevers]

Start regmon. open the program and send me the txt file that you save from regmon. ill have a look to it:

dschuller@maasoevers.nl

greetz,
Danny