Host Services Status

Summary

Citrix Host service manages hosts and hypervisor connections. It takes part in catalog creation containing virtual machines and starting/stopping virtual machines.

If Host service is not operational on all controllers in site, above mentioned functionality will not be available in XenDesktop. But as long as there is operational Host service on at least one controller, functionality is not broken.

Impact if Host service is not operational on all controllers:

• New catalog cannot be created if machine type is one of Pooled or Dedicated.

• Machines from catalogs being of machine type - Pooled, Dedicated or Existing - cannot be started and therefore not available to users.

Configuration

The following configuration parameters are customizable:

Resolutions

Check alerts related to non operational Host service on specific controllers. First thing to try is to restart the Host service if there is no obvious cause of the problem (e.g. database connection problem).