Login PI

As many companies do, we use a CRM system.

Recently, I have been getting complaints about our cloud CRM system, Microsoft Dynamics, being slow. I tried to investigate this by shadowing one of our users to see what was wrong. As expected, everything was fast. 15 minutes later, the same user reported slowness again. How could I investigate this without bothering the users?

Together Login VSI and IGEL deliver deep application test and availability monitoring for the digital workspace

This week we announced a partnership with IGEL that enables Login PI integration in a radical new way, giving our joint customers the ability to deploy our synthetic user technology to endpoints around the world. What I am amazed by is the simplicity of this solution and the ability to reduce cost by leveraging IGEL software-defined endpoints. Let’s take a quick look at what this means and how it works.

I love the flexibility of the virtual user, it can handle any application and can go as deep into the application as you like.

This does of course mean the desire to customize workloads to include, for example, your CRM, an Electronic health record or Finance application, increases.

Over the last week I’ve had the opportunity to install Login PI within the Nutanix Ready lab. Let’s dig into the configuration, and some points I observed. The purpose of Nutanix Ready is to confirm that a software solution is capable of being operated on their platforms. This demonstrates compatibility and capacity.

The previous blog post explained the basics around using the Login PI RESTful API through Powershell. This blog post will build on that foundation to change the workload assigned to profiles based on a CSV file instead of assigning the same workload to each server.

For a large Login PI deployment a method was needed to change the workload on all profiles. The Login PI RESTfull API (API) easily enables this. To get started create a Powershell script. For this blogpost the Windows Powershell ISE was used.

Login PI quietly turned two years old recently. As we prepare for the upcoming release of Login PI 2.0, let’s take a quick look back at the history of Login PI, and then a look forward at what’s coming up.

Gartner Analysts Nathan Hill and Michael Silver recently published a research note titled “Define and Prioritize the User Experience to Succeed with VDI and DaaS.” The article is aimed at someone preparing to adopt or refresh a remote desktop solution, and calls out some critical learnings that I've also noticed in the years I've been in the industry:

I often get the question how to connect Login PI to NetScaler. With Login PI it is possible to make custom connectors. With a custom connector, you can let Login PI connect to almost anything that can launch to your desktop. For now I will only focus on NetScaler (other examples are AWS workspaces, Client F5 load balancer or Spice). In this blog I will explain how you can integrate the connector provided by Citrix in three easy steps. 

Coming off the successful release of Login PI 1.5 last January, today the Login PI team releases version 1.6, which includes some great new features, and some cosmetic improvements, to make integrating Login PI much easier and much faster.