I’ve been working with Citrix Cloud quite a bit over the last year or so and though it’s about time I created some content on what I’ve learned and share some install guides, tips n tricks I’ve picked up along the way.

Currently reviewing the Citrix Analytics service, and it has the added bonus of being able to monitor your local Citrix estate. The service will consist of a few sub services with Security & Operations available at the time of writing but Analytics will follow shortly.

When the site is connected it can also be used for site aggregation as well.

OK lets see how we connect your local Site to your Citrix cloud tenant  to get all these new features.

Prerequisites :

• Active Citrix cloud subscription with Analytics service enabled
• Local Citrix Site
• Some users apps and desktops to use to populate the service with some data

Connecting a local Citrix Site to Citrix Cloud

• Ensure you are logged into Citrix Cloud
• Select – Workspace Configuration

• Select – Sites

• Select – Add Site

• Select – Virtual Apps and Desktops
• Select – Continue

• Select – Resource location where your site resides
• Enter – IP or FQDN of one of your delivery controllers
• Select – Discover

• Enter – Virtual Apps and desktop site credentials
• Select – Continue

• You can see we have successfully found Dublin site
• Select Continue

• Select – Continue
• Its a new site with nothing published yet otherwise you will see domains etc here

• Select – Internal Only
• Select – Continue
• We could select which ever method you will use to connect here for my test I will be connecting locally to the environment

• Select – save & finish

• You can now see the Dublin site is connected.

Stay tuned for the next installment on configuring the newly added site as a source for feeding the Analytics service.