Dump Monitor Suite
Following the announced Troubleshooting Tool Ideas database Ramzy Mansour from Citrix Technical Support came up with a brilliant idea about Dump Monitor Suite and its two useful components for Citrix administrators:
DumpStats:
- Monitors and displays a graphical chart showing which services and processes crashed or hanged on an individual Citrix server, their crash time and date, dump location, dump type, crash signature, modules where crashes happened, etc.
- Aggregates and displays statistics for the whole Citrix farm
DumpAlerts:
- Sends an e-mail alert and/or an SMS message to a cell phone when any crash or hang happens
- Configures alerts based on severity and specific processes
Additionally Dump Monitor Suite will include the following components (some of them already exist and will be enhanced):
DumpChecks:
- Enhanced and improved version of Citrix DumpCheck Explorer extension and its command line version
DumpProperties:
- New Explorer extension (Properties dialog) which shows various data extracted from a dump, like process name, module list, whether heap checking was enabled, module name where crash happened, etc.
DumpDepends:
- Integrated and enhanced version of SystemDump which allows to dump dependent processes
We are currently finalizing functional specs and architecture. More information about this Suite will be posted soon.
- Dmitry Vostokov -