Linux Virtual Delivery Agent

Configure policies

Installation

Follow the installation articles to prepare the Linux VDA.

Dependencies

Ensure that you install these dependencies before installing the Linux VDA package.

RHEL/CentOS:

sudo yum -y install openldap sudo yum -y install libxml2 sudo yum -y install cyrus-sasl sudo yum -y install cyrus-sasl-gssapi

SLES/SELD:

sudo zypper install openldap2 sudo zypper install libxml2 sudo zypper install cyrus-sasl sudo zypper install cyrus-sasl-gssapi

Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install -y libldap-2.4-2 sudo apt-get install -y libsasl2-2 sudo apt-get install -y libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit

Configuration

Policy settings in Citrix Studio

To set policies in Citrix Studio, do the following:

  1. Open Citrix Studio.
  2. Select the Policies panel.
  3. Click Create Policy.
  4. Set the policy according to the Policy support list.

LDAP server setting on the VDA

The LDAP server setting on Linux VDA is optional for single domain environments but mandatory for multiple domain and multiple forest environments. The setting is necessary for the policy service to perform an LDAP search in these environments.

After installing the Linux VDA package, run the command:

/opt/Citrix/VDA/sbin/ctxsetup.sh

Type all the LDAP servers in the suggested format: space-separated list of LDAP Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) with the LDAP port (for example, ad1.mycompany.com:389 ad2.mycomany.com:389).

Image of LDAP server setting on the linux VDA

You can also run the ctxreg command to write this setting to the registry directly:

/opt/Citrix/VDA/bin/ctxreg create -k "HKLM\Software\Citrix\VirtualDesktopAgent" -t "REG_SZ" -v "ListOfLDAPServers" -d "ad1.mycompany.com:389 ad2.mycomany.com:389" --force
Configure policies