Overview

The Overview screen displays the following information:

• The Information section displays the RD Session Host information similar to what is shown on the main RD Session Host list but in one convenient view.
• The Actions section lists actions that you can perform on a host (see below). Please note that you can also perform actions from the main RD Session Host list view by selecting a host and choosing an option from the ellipsis menu.

You can perform the following actions on an RD Session Host:

• Message all: Send a message to users connected to the host.
• Disconnect all: Disconnect all current users.
• Logoff all sessions: Log off all current sessions.
• Update agent: Update the RD Session Host Agent, if required.
• Disable agent: Temporarily disable the agent.

The Control sub-menu contains the following items:

• Enable logons: Enables logons from client sessions, but not from the console. This option performs the same action as the change logon /enable command.
• Disable logons: Disables subsequent logons from client sessions, but not from the console. Does not affect currently logged on users. This option performs the same action as change logon /disable command.
• Drain: Disables logons from new client sessions, but allows reconnections to existing sessions. Drain is kept even after reboot until the admin enables logons.

  Note that while a host is in drain mode, administrators may still log on to the physical console or remotely log on using the /admin or /console command-line option for MSTSC. This allows administrators to remotely maintain the RDS host via Tools > Remote Desktop.

• Drain until reboot: Disables logons from new client sessions until the computer is restarted, but allows reconnections to existing sessions. Drain is kept until the host is restarted. Same action as the change logon /drainuntilrestart command.
• Cancel pending reboot (scheduler): Cancel pending reboot.
• Cancel disabled state (scheduler): Cancel disabled state.
• Install RDS role: Allows to install the RDS role on the host.
• Reboot: Reboot the host.
• Shutdown: Shut down the host.

The Logs sub-menu contains the following items:

• Configure: Allows you to configure logging. For the explanation of log levels, please see below.
• Retrieve: Retrieves a ZIP archive containing the log files to the specified location.
• Clear: Clears all existing logs.

The available log levels are:

• Standard: This is the standard log level that records only the most important events. Unless you are asked by Parallels RAS support to use one of the log levels described below, you should always use this one.
• Extended: This logging involves more information than the standard logging, but it slows down the system because of the additional information that it needs to collect.
• Verbose: Verbose logging involves even more information than the extended logging and can slow down your system significantly.

Please note that to avoid degraded performance, extended and verbose logging should only be enabled for a limited time period (enough to collect the necessary information for analysis). You can set this time period using Reset to the standard level after option. The default value is 12 hours. In specific cases, a Parallels support engineer will advise you whether this time period should be set to a different value. Once this time period is over, the log level will be reset back to standard.

The remaining items include:

• Assign to host pool: Assigns the host to a host pool.
• Remove from host pool: Removes a host from a host pool.
• Refresh: Refreshes the host information displayed on the screen.
• Site Defaults: Opens the RDSH site defaults screen where you can view and configure site defaults.
• Delete: Deletes the host from the RAS Farm.