Provisioning servers

Deploying agents in a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment

Xshield supports agent deployment in VDI environments such as Citrix, and VMware Horizon. This is best achieved by installing and maintaining the agent on the master or golden image. This ensures that all virtual machine instances generated from the master image have the same and most up-to-date version of the agent.

To install the agent on the master image, include the command line parameter TOKENIZE=false while running the installer on the master virtual machine.

This parameter causes the agent to be installed but not registered with the Xshield management console. The master image can be generated from the virtual machine in the usual manner. When a virtual machine is cloned from the master image, the installed agent automatically registers itself with the Xshield management console.

All console-based operations on the cloned system, such as tagging, agent upgrades, and decommissioning, remain the same.

To deploy an agent: 

  1. Go to Settings > Agent Download.
  2. Go to the Downloads tab.
  3. Select the agent type (Microsegementation or User Access) for the relevant OS family.
  4. Click View CLI.
  5. Select Citrix PVS (Master template).
    6. You can provision via PowerShell installation or use Windows command line.
  6. Copy the command and execute the command in the download file location.

Upgrading agent in the master image

You can upgrade the agent on the master image by running the same command specified in step 6 above on the master image virtual machine, with the TOKENIZE=false option.

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