This article contains information about enabling Group Policy packet tracing in XenApp 6 and XenDesktop 5.
Group Policy UI Components: The Group Policy UI components use the System.Diagnostics.Trace class to record network packet traces. You can use DebugView utility to display the output. Refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647 web page for more information.
Group Policy Engine: The Group Policy Engine uses OutputDebugString to record network packet traces and supports file tracing for debugging boot-up issues. By default, the tracing feature for this component is disabled because this component must be performant.
Set or create the following registry REG_DWORD value to enable DebugView tracing for CitrixCseClient.dll:
Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Citrix\GroupPolicy
Value Name: CseClientTraceDebug
Value Data: 0xFFFFFFFF
The following screen shot displays the CseClientTraceDebug registry key in the Registry Editor Window:
If running an application on a 64-bit operating system, set or create the following REG_DWORD registry value to view 32-bit processes for CitrixCseClient.dll:
Key:HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Citrix\GroupPolicy
Value Name: CseClientTraceDebug
Value Data: 0xFFFFFFFF
The following screen shot displays the CseClientTraceDebug registry key in the Registry Editor Window:
As an administrator, run the application to display the trace messages in DebugView and enable the following tracing options:
Capture Win32
Capture Global Win32
The following screen shot displays the Capture menu options to enable the required options:
To record the current DebugView information in a log file for non-boot up processing issues, select Save as from the DebugView file menu before you start recording packet traces.
To enable file tracing for debugging boot-up issues, create the CseClientTraceDebug value name of the REG_SZ type, as displayed in the following screen shot:
To enable the server EXE tracing, complete the following procedure:
Set or create the following REG_DWORD registry value to enable DebugView tracing for CitrixCseEngine.exe:
Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Citrix\GroupPolicyThe following screen shot displays the CseServiceTraceDebug registry key in the Registry Editor Window:
To enable file tracing for debugging boot-up issues, create the CseServiceTraceDebug value name of the REG_SZ type, as displayed in the following screen shot:
File tracing for debugging the boot-up issues writes all trace information to a file that represents the calling process. These files are placed in the Windows temp directory.
The following are the file names to which the trace information is written:
CitrixCseClient: CitrixCseClient-CALLING_MODULE_NAME-CALLING_PROCESS_ID.log
CitrixCseEngine: CitrixCseEngine.log