How to View Discovered Terminal Services
This lesson provides detail on the information in the Terminal Services menu. Discovered terminal services and terminal licensing services for Microsoft and Citrix environments. Reveals allocation of CALs and service consumers.
Remote Desktop Services (RDS), known as Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 and earlier, is one of the components of Microsoft Windows that allows a user to take control of a remote computer or virtual machine over a network connection.
Terminal Services Dashboard
Default dashboard items are available under all top level menus in the left navigation bar.
Displayed Widgets:
- Terminal Servers by CAL Allocation
- Top 10 Terminal Service Instances
- Sessions - Number of sessions per time period.
Terminal Services
Displays discovered instances of a terminal services running on servers. Additionally workstations, running remote access to a terminal service can be identified as long as the terminal service is running on a machine which has the Asset Vision agent installed.
Virtual Desktop
Displays desktop opertating systems running virtualized on server operation systems.
Remote Desktop
Displays discovered instances of workstations running the Remote Desktop Service.
Allocated TS CALs
Allocated Terminal Service Device and User CALs can be seen here. This information is extracted from the Terminal Services licensing service and is used by the licensable inventory routines to calculate CAL usage for terminal services.