Listing Citrix session count by application using PowerShell

You may have found that Citrix Director offers fairly limited set of information regarding the number of users which are connected to each XenApp host, and there was no simple way (until I think XA7.9 update) to view the published app session count for each application.Here’s a useful PowerShell snippet which should help you out if you didn’t upgrade yet. It’s a concatenation of several commands which basically list off all of the sessions and then group and sort them into a convenient list.You’ll need to open PowerShell on a Citrix delivery controller and then type:

Add-PSsnapin Citrix*

Following which, you should enter the following command:

Get-BrokerApplicationInstance | group-Object -Property ApplicationName | sort-object -property Count -Descending | Format-Table -AutoSize -Property Count,Name

The output generated should be as follows:

You can of course tailor the verb Get-BrokerApplicationInstance to select a smaller subset of sessions on which to group and sort using:

Get-BrokerApplicationInstance -MachineName DOM\\HOXENAPP01

Which will simply tell you the distribution of published application sessions for an individual XenApp host. Hope this helps!

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