Extentrix Web Services 1.0 - Management Edition Features

Extentrix Web Services 1.0 – Management Edition comes with lots of features which exist to simplify the process of controlling Citrix Presentation Server.

Ability to keep the control remotely

It’s the main Idea of Extentrix Web Services1.0 – Management Edition. Controlling Citrix Presentation is usually done using Citrix Management console, Citrix Access suite, or using any developed applications that use the MFCOM APIs. All of those previous ways are hold in the presentation server itself, and you need to be logged in locally. Or you can use other ways to access them and manage your Citrix Presentation Server as connecting using a limited RDB connection or install ICA client and connect to the presentation server using it.

Now with Extentrix Web Services 1.0 – Management Edition you need just an access to the internet and you are willing to control your Citrix Presentation Server from anywhere.

Standard Means of Communication

Extentrix Web Services 1.0 – Management Edition provides standard means of communication with Citrix Presentation Server among different software applications, running on a variety of platforms and/or frameworks because it uses the standard SOAP protocol in communication messages. Extentrix Web Services 1.0 – Management Edition will service any application talks SOAP.

Platform Independent and Simple to Integrate

Extentrix Web Services 1.0 – Management Edition is a platform and language independent, not important what programming language you use or on which platform you are working on. Just add a web proxy for Extentrix Web Services for Citrix Access management console, and experience how nice it is. And since Extentrix Web Services 1.0 – Management Edition is a platform and programming language independent, it’s simple to integrate it with any application written on any programming language, running on any platform.

Platform Independent and Simple to Integrate

Extentrix Web Services 1.0 - Management Edition is a platform and language independent, not important what programming language you use or on which platform you are working on. Just add a web proxy for Extentrix Web Services for Citrix Access management console, and experience how nice it is. And since Extentrix Web Services for Citrix Presentation Server Administration is a platform and programming language independent, it’s simple to integrate it with any application written on any programming language, running on any platform.

Ability to support many functionalities

Extentrix Web Services 1.0 – Management Edition supports lots of functionalities, which mainly the administrator users need during their connection to Citrix Presentation Server. It will help them get information about Presentation Server (such as all information about servers, sessions, applications, Administrators…) for their specific credential, even if they are currently not logging to the system. In addition, it comes with rich API in control action functionalities (such as delete Admin, enable session, disable application…).

Nice User Interface

Extentrix Web Services 1.0 – Management Edition comes with a nice, friendly, easy to manage console that helps you create new web service, edit existing one, browse and manage your web services.

Very helpful web based Client

Extentrix Web Services 1.0 – Management Edition Suite comes with a very helpful web based client that utilizes the web services APIs. It has a nice UI with a familiar tree based design which is full of functionalities to perform tasks easily and with a detailed manual that describes and explains how to use it.

Save time in using the ready developed web based client. -- You can build your own application that is customized according to your need.

Authentication and Impersonation

The most effective and secure way to access Extentrix Web Services 1.0 – Management Edition in the context of another user is to use COM functions (for example, CoSetProxyBlanket) to specifically configure the access to the web services APIs on a per-call basis.

Extentrix Web Services 1.0 – Management Edition with its design in connecting to MFCOM uses RPC impersonation to control access to the Independent Management Architecture (IMA) and the data stored in the IMA databases. Only Presentation Server administrators have permission to access the IMA and its data. To ensure that administrators who are using Extentrix Web Services 1.0 – Management Edition APIs access the administrative functions that are subject to the same access restrictions, Extentrix Web Services 1.0 – Management Edition runs its properties and methods in the context of the calling user by impersonating the user before accessing the IMA

Before calling any web services API the users need to call login web service and provide their user name and password, and then access the presentation server by calling any web services APIs as the given user.

Now, it is very simple to keep the control of Citrix Presentation Server, thanks to Extentrix Web Services 1.0 – Management Edition.