60-second review: Citrix Automatic Farm Tuner

Monday, 27 March 2006 by Michel Roth

In this article you will find a 60 second review of the Citrix Automatic Farm Tuner. This is very useful for use in LARGE farms. Yuri and Ton, Thank you for this great review.

A while back, Citrix released the Automatic Farm Tuner. What does it do? How can it improve your farm's performance? We checked it out for you.

The Automatic Farm Tuner can be used to tweak the data collectors in your farm for optimal performance. It is primarily intended for use in large (over 800 servers) farms, as the standard setting for data collectors is usually fine for smaller farms. It comes in two flavors, a W2k and a W2K3 version, which need to be installed on one of your farm servers (which will need a reboot after installation). The installation does not create a shortcut. Instead, it needs to be started from Program Files\Citrix\System32. The tool can also connect to other farms by running the mfreg /unregserver and then the mfreg 'servername' commands.

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