Gourami / Farm Commander.

An old colleague and Citrix consultant who worked for us, has his own Citrix consulting company, it’s called Gourami. His name is Dennis Smith, he is a great Citrix consultant and developer. He makes customized applications for Citrix with usage of the .NET Framework.Combined with his firm knowledge of the Citrix product range he has proven to be a unique and his applications are very good combination with Citrix.

He has just released the beta of a new tool, called Farm Commander. I have just tested this tool, and this is a great tool, to automate things on serveral Citrix servers.You can copy files, and execute commands within an Windows Active Directory domain.With Farm Commander the left Panel is a file system, where you can select files and directories. In the right panel are the Windows 2000/XP/Citrix/Terminal/Domain workstations/servers listed. First you select files in the left panel, and then you select the servers in the right panel. Than you choose your action, copy, move or delete. Farm Commander than copies/deletes/moves the selected files to/from the selected server. In Citrix/Terminal Server environments you need to copy files from or to several servers at once, which is one of the key features of this application.So time is gained here, Farm Commander also features a detailed report of each action. As administrator you must know if there were failures in the taken actions. (read only/not enough rights)

Summary: Great tool for every sytems administrator/engineer, who administer large and complex Citrix enviroments. Is certainly worth to take a look at the website of Gourami. Gourami offers more great applications, which can save a Citrix administrator/engineer/consultant lots of time by using these tools. He also offers very good support on his products in the Gourami forums.