[Thinlinc-technical] Forcing sessions for some users to certain agent hosts

[Duthoit, Philippe]

I have 2 Agents, A and B, 1 Manager M
Based on username I would have A -users logged into Agent A , and off course B-users logged into Agent B

I can read in the manual we can create groups and have these groups forced to certain servers

How can I create these groups ?
The groups are unix groups, but do I need to create these users on the Manager ? That would be odd ?

P.



14.4.9.  Forcing sessions for some users to certain agent hosts

In some situations, it is desirable to force sessions for certain users to be started on a specific agent host. Examples of when this is needed is when testing a new server platform, allowing a group of test users to run their sessions on the new platform, and when configuring desktops with the ThinLinc Desktop Customizer (as described in Chapter 17, Building Custom Linux Desktops with the ThinLinc Desktop Customizer ), where you want to end up on the same server every time to make it easier to copy the resulting files to all other hosts.

ThinLinc provides a mechanism for this. By creating a unix group and associating it with a specific agent server, sessions for users that are members of the group will always be created on the agent host in question. Individual users may also be specified in this way.

The configuration parameter used for this is /vsmserver/explicit_agentselection. Add pairs of user/group and agent hostnames as a space-separated list to this parameter. The names of groups should be prepended by a + sign, to identify them as groups.

An example:

/vsmserver/explicit_agentselection = +group1:agent1 +group2:agent3 user1:agent1
Since only one server can be associated with each group, no load balancing is used. That means that if a user that is a member of group1 requests a session, and agent1 is down, no session will be created.

If a server associated with a group is also listed in /vsmserver/terminalservers, sessions will be created for all users, not only the ones that are members of the group associated with the server. If the server is not listed in /vsmserver/terminalservers, only users in the group associated with the server will have sessions on the server.


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