When a user launches a published desktop or application, a session is created. You can disconnect and log out from sessions, send messages to clients, reset, and restart virtual machines.

Procedure

  1. In Horizon Console, navigate to where session information is displayed.
    Session Type Navigation
    Remote desktop sessions Select Inventory > Desktops, click a pool's ID, and click the Sessions tab. The Sessions column also appears on the Desktop Pools page for all desktops.

    Select Inventory > Farms, click a farm's ID, and click the Sessions tab. You can also view the published applications associated with a session. The Application Names column displays the published applications associated with a session.

    The Sessions column also appears on the Farms page for all farms.

    Select Settings > Registered Machines, and view the Sessions column.

    Remote desktop and application sessions Select Monitor > Sessions.
    Sessions associated with a user or user group
    • Select Users and Groups.
    • Click a user's name or a user group's name.
    • Click on the Sessions tab.
  2. Select a session.
    To send a message to users, you can select multiple sessions. You can perform the other operations on only one session at a time. You can perform a logout operation only on a session that is not connected from a VMware vSphere console.
  3. Choose whether to disconnect, log out, send a message, restart a desktop, or reset a virtual machine.
    Option Description
    Disconnect Session Disconnects the user from the session.
    Logoff Session Logs the user off the session. Data that is not saved is lost.
    Send Message Send a message to Horizon Client. You can label the message as Info, Warning, or Error.
    Restart Desktop Performs a restart operation on a published desktop, which performs a graceful operating system restart of the desktop machine.
    Note: This option is not available for instant-clone farms.
    Reset Virtual Machine Performs a reset operation on a published desktop without the graceful operating system restart, which performs a hard power-off and power-on of the desktop machine.
    Note: This option is not available for instant-clone farms.
  4. Click OK.

Results

The session properties have the following descriptions:
Property Description
RDS Host Name of the multi-session host.
Farm Farm to which the host belongs.
Desktop Pool Multi-session desktop pool associated with the farm.
Agent Version Version of Horizon Agent that runs on the host.
Sessions Number of client sessions.
DNS Name DNS name of the host.
Type Version of Linux distribution that runs on the host.
Client ID Name or the MAC address of the client.
Client Version Version of Horizon Client for the user's session.
RDS Farm Farm to which the host belongs.
Max Number of Connections Maximum number of connections that the host can support.
Enabled Whether the host is enabled.
Status State of the host. See Status of Linux Multi-session Hosts in Horizon Console for a description of the possible states.