Managing Sessions

The Session Management tab page allows you to view and manage current sessions for RD Session Host servers. To view the page, navigate to Farm / Site / RD Session Hosts / Session Management .

Note: You can also open the Session Management tab page by right-clicking a server on the RD Session Hosts tab page and choosing Show Sessions . This will open the Session Management tab page with a filter applied to it to display only the sessions that belong to the selected server.

The Sessions lists displays current sessions and includes the following info for each session:

• Server . RD Session Host server name.
• Session ID . Session ID.
• User . Session owner.
• Protocol . Protocol used: Console (Parallels RAS Console connection), RDP (remote user connected via RDP).
• State . Session state: Idle , Active , Disconnected .
• Logon Time . Last date and time the user logged on.
• Session Length . Total sessions duration.
• Idle Time . Total session idle time.
• Type . Session type: Admin , Published Application , Published Desktop .
• Resolution . Client display resolution.
• Color Depth . Client display color depth.
• Device Name . Client device name.
• IP Address . Client IP address.

You can sort the Sessions list by any session property. Simply click on a desired column heading to sort the list in ascending or descending order.

You can also filter the list using a single or multiple session properties as a criteria. To do so, click the magnifying glass icon (top right) and then type a desired string in a desired column. The list will be filtered as you type.

To manage a session (or multiple sessions at the same time), select one or more sessions and then use the Tasks drop-down menu to choose from the following actions:

• Refresh . Refresh the list.
• Disconnect . Disconnect the selected session(s).
• Log Off . Log off the session(s).
• Send Message . Opens the Send Message dialog where you can type and send a message to the session owner(s).
• Remote Control . Remotely control the selected user session.
• Show Running Processes . Display and manage running processes. See below for details.

Managing running processes

The Tasks > Show running processes option opens the Running Processes dialog where you can view running processes for one or more RD Session Host servers.

Note: You can also open the Running Processes dialog by right-clicking a server on the RD Session Hosts tab page and choosing Show Processes . This will open the Running Processes dialog with a filter applied to it to display only the processes that belong to the selected server.

On the Running Processes dialog, use the Show processes from drop-down menu to filter the list using the following options:

• Selected Session . Displays processes for the session selected in the Sessions list.
• Selected Server . Displays all running processes for the server on which the selected session is running.
• All Servers . Displays all running processes for all available servers.

You can also filter the list by specifying a search criteria for one or more columns. To do so, click the magnifying glass icon (top right) and then type a desired text in one or more columns. The list is filtered as you type to match the specified criteria.

The Tasks drop-down menu in the Running Processes dialog includes the following options:

• Refresh . Refresh the list.
• Kill Process . Kill the selected process.
• Go To Published Item . Enabled when you select a process that belongs to a running published resource. Brings up the main Parallels RAS Console window and navigates to the corresponding published resource.
• Disconnect . Disconnect the session.
• Log Off . Log off the session.
• Send Message . Send a message to the session owner.