View RDP tunneling question - continued RDP session if Connection Manager fails

[kenhutchinson]

Up to now I had assumed that RDP connections brokered by connection manager were direct RDP connections between client and virtual desktop and only connections brokered by a Security Server would be tunnelled via the broker over SSL. I believe this is incorrect and all RDP sessions are tunnelled by default over SSL via the connection manager regardless of whether you have a Security Server or not. Firstly is this correct? Surely this is a single point of failure as the session is lost if the broker goes down.

Secondly I know it is possible to enable direct connections for RDP but ambiguous documentation on where this is set. Is this configured at the "Use SSL for client connections"? If so this is slightly disappointing as it means you cannot configure different desktop pools with different settings. If this is not the correct place to configure this then can somebody let me know where the correct place is?

Finally once direct connections are enabled for RDP, are RDPsessions kept alive if the broker fails meaning if the broker goes down or is rebooted, new connections are denied while broker is down but users with existing sessions can continue to work?

Would appreciate some help on this.

Cheers

[TShoun]

Okay, SSL is used for connections if it is selected in the under configuration tab and then global settings. I am not entriely sure if this option is set by default or not, but it can be configured here.

In previous versions of View (ie 3) the direct connection option was configurable under the configuration tab, however I believe that it has since been removed as a configurable option and is instead enabled automatically.

Due to the fact that direct connections are enabled, yes if the connection broker goes down, users in sessions will not lose connections. As you stated, new connections will not be able to be made though.

[kenhutchinson]

Actually the setting under global settings is not the one - that is only for the initial connection to the broker but not the session.

The correct setting is under servers, settings with the option to enable direct connection to desktop ticked!! Have tested and works a treat for both RDP and PCoIP.

thanks for the help.