Muiltiple Citrix Servers in Farm crashing

[SvenBurger]

We host a MetaFrame 1.8 Farm with 7 servers... running load balancing.

Every day, at around the same time (9:30am), the servers start bouncing... usually one right after the other. After they have all restarted, they are stable the rest of the day.

We're trying to eliminate possibilities at the moment.

Any ideas? Anyone? Anyone...? Beuller?

 

[patrickrouse]

Scheduled reboot?

Service recovery setting set to reboot the server on failure?

Check system event log for shutdown reason.



Patrick Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

http://www.workthin.com

 

[SvenBurger]

The System Event Log isn't revealing anything that would point to a common problem between the 11 of them.

The blue screens vary - 0x0000001E seems to be the most common denomiator with the bounces.

 

[patrickrouse]

You didn't mention anything about blue screens. Has anything changed in your farm?

You may want to set one of the machines to NOT reboot on failure and debug the memory dump.

The most common cause of BSOD in Terminal Server or Citrix is due to use of 3rd party print drivers.

Check here for my recommendations on the addition and useage of printer drivers in a terminal server environment:

http://www.workthin.com/tsp.htm

Patrick Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

http://www.workthin.com

 

[ascotta]

Has windows upodate perhaps updated a hardware driver recently ? 1e tends to be hardare.

Cheers
Scott