Meaning of Client ID Column

[celak]

Hello there,

I am always monitoring Remote Sessions from VMware Horizon View Administrator and I have detected some changes from Client ID column.

When we were using VMware View 4.x there was only client MAC address information in this field.

Now we see totally different, long and weird information in here.

What are they and where they come from? Those are not MAC address anymore.

Thanks.

[admin]

This is a randomly generated string, provided by the broker and saved by the client on first connection if the client doesn't already have one. Previous versions of wswc used to always populate it with the mac address instead (unlike other clients) This changed in recent 5.x releases of Horizon View and behaviour is now consistent across all client types. The primary purpose is to ensure that when the "allow multiple sessions per user" option is selected for a pool, different clients are always allocated different sessions.