XML Port Change Urgent Help

[Ray Green]

Hi All,

I need to change the XML port for a customer tonight from port 80 to port 8080. I have the procedure to do it as stated at http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX125153.

I was going to do this procedure on the Data Collector server but I need to know do I need to do it for every farm member server as well or just the DC?

If you could help I would appreciate it

Thanks

Ray

[Pavan nannapaneni1709152483]

you just need to do this on DC or controller servers.

If you do a netstat -an on your DC you can see that its listening on port 8080, while on the member servers you wont see this listening on port 8080.

[Pavan nannapaneni1709152483]

Also make sure you change the port number on Web Interface or Storefront websites for the XML port number to 8080

[Ken Avram1709152383]

Ray,

Look in your web interface and see what servers are acting as the xml brokers. It is those machines only that need to be changed. Of course if you want to be consistent in your farm and have more redundancy then you could do it to several more or all of the servers so that you could change xml brokers at will if the primary ones have issues.

[Ken Avram1709152383]

If you are using STA's i.e. a gateway make sure to change the STA configs as well

[Ray Green]

thanks for all your replies.

The setup is that the Brookers are the netscallers and there are two zones with 2 data collectors. I was told I would have to do it on every server in the farm and also told only to do it on the DC???

I'm a little confussed :-)

Ray

[Shaun Ritchie]

Depends how the other servers are configured.

If the other servers were installed as Session Hosts then they will not have the XML service

You only need to make this change on servers that are in controller mode.

You will also need to update your Web Interface config to use the new port.

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[Anthony Cunningham]

Ray,

You will need to change the port on the XML Brokers in the farm. These are the servers which the Farm Properties point to in Web Interface.

Basically the steps you need to do are to

1. Configure the Unfiltered Computer Policy so the XML Port is set to 8080
2. Register the XML service on your XML Brokers against port 8080 using the ctxxmlss command as documented in the CTX you mentioned
3. Re-configure the Web Interface site to use port 8080
4. Make sure the firewall is configured to open port 8080
5. Check each XML Broker is listening on port 8080, do a netstat -an | findstr 8080
6. Do a few test app launches

Hope it goes well,

Anthony

Edited by: anthonycu on Sep 26, 2012 10:30 AM

[Ray Green]

OK all the citrix servers have an Citrix XML service so I should make the change on every server with this servive?

Any yes I'll make sure I change the port number on the web console :-)

Thanks so far guys grate help!

Ray

[Shaun Ritchie]

Have a read of this

http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xenapp65-install/ps-config-prep.html

and this

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131298

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[Ken Avram1709152383]

Doesn't apply if all of his servers are runnning xml brokers

[Pavan nannapaneni1709152483]

The article you have looked is for XenApp 6 only, In XenApp 6 all of the servers have XML Service. There is no concept of Controllers and Session hosts.

If your Citrix farm is XenApp 6.5 then you only need to change the port on controllers.

[Shaun Ritchie]

> {quote:title=Pavan900 wrote:}{quote}
> The article you have looked is for XenApp 6 only, In XenApp 6 all of the servers have XML Service. There is no concept of Controllers and Session hosts.
>
> If your Citrix farm is XenApp 6.5 then you only need to change the port on controllers.

Exactly, and seeing as this is posted in the XenApp 6.5 forum I am assuming he is using XenApp 6.5.

This is why I posted the links.

He needs to check which servers have the controller role and change the port on all of them.

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[Ray Green]

Yes we are running 6.5 :-)

OK so I will make the changes as specified in my original link on all servers then as they all have the XML service?

Ray

[Jing Shien]

On 9/26/2012 at 9:29 PM, Anthony Cunningham said:

Ray,

You will need to change the port on the XML Brokers in the farm. These are the servers which the Farm Properties point to in Web Interface.

Basically the steps you need to do are to

1. Configure the Unfiltered Computer Policy so the XML Port is set to 8080
2. Register the XML service on your XML Brokers against port 8080 using the ctxxmlss command as documented in the CTX you mentioned
3. Re-configure the Web Interface site to use port 8080
4. Make sure the firewall is configured to open port 8080
5. Check each XML Broker is listening on port 8080, do a netstat -an | findstr 8080
6. Do a few test app launches

Hope it goes well,

Anthony

Edited by: anthonycu on Sep 26, 2012 10:30 AM

Hi Anthony, I've follow All the step but the citrix web login or web portal not shown in the browser just blank white screen. BUT if I use Citrix Quick Launch portable apps everything runs fine, I can open the application. Did I missed something on the setting ?

 

I am using Xenapp 6.5 on Win server 2008 R2 and IIS 7.0

 

Rgds,