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Validate Citrix capacity before production. Not in the incident review.

LoadGen ships a dedicated 7-step Citrix wizard covering Basic (ICA) and Enhanced (HDX), with StoreFront, Gateway, PNAgent, and External Login as wizard auth-flow steps, plus `.lgs` Citrix workloads executed on Full agents. Scenario-driven load testing with generic p95 measurement on every transaction.

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7-step Citrix wizardBasic (ICA) + Enhanced (HDX)From €1,099 / week (50 vUsers)

7-step Citrix wizard. Basic (ICA), Enhanced (HDX), all auth flows.

The Problem

Generic load tools don’t model Citrix workloads.

Citrix is an authentication topology and a session delivery model, not just an HTTP endpoint. Tools that treat it like a web app produce numbers that don’t survive a real workload.

HTTP samplers don’t represent a Citrix session.

A 200 OK on StoreFront isn’t a working Citrix session. Generic samplers report green while real published-app launches stall on session hosts under load.

Auth flows trip every other tool.

StoreFront, Gateway, PNAgent, and External Login each have their own quirks. Without dedicated wizard handling, capacity tests stall before the user even opens an app.

Capacity claims that don’t survive Monday.

A 50-user smoke test in DEV cannot model 1,500-user finance-close traffic on production session hosts. Generic load shapes break first on the components that hurt most.

Why LoadGen for Citrix

Citrix-native depth. Full-platform breadth.

The same scenario engine that drives load tests also drives end-to-end monitoring and uptime. One platform, one cockpit, three operational modes.

Citrix auth flows in the wizard

StoreFront, Gateway, PNAgent, and External Login are wizard auth-flow steps in the 7-step Citrix wizard. The connection profile is captured once and replayed every test.

Generic p95 on every transaction

Per-step latency and p95 captured per transaction on the live cockpit. The same measurement model used across all platforms. Citrix, AVD, Horizon, RDS, and Web.

Same scenario, multi-stage

The `.lgs` workload that runs your load test also drives continuous monitoring and Citrix-vs-AVD comparison via the same engine. No re-authoring.

Live orchestration

See the runtime environment, not a slide of it.

The same cockpit your engineers will operate on cutover weekend. vUsers ramping, Full-agent allocation, and scenario queue. All live.

  • vUsers ramp curve with warm-up, steady, spike, and cool-down phases.
  • Agent allocation across Core (4850), Full (4840), and VDI (4841) pools visible as the test runs.
  • Concurrency counter, scenario queue, and phase ribbon on one scrub bar.
  • The same scenario shape powers continuous monitoring after cutover. One engine, two modes.

Live orchestration cockpit. Paused on hover.

Capability

What ships with the Citrix load testing module.

7-step Citrix wizard

Basic (ICA) and Enhanced (HDX) modes. StoreFront, Gateway, PNAgent, and External Login as wizard auth-flow steps. Display, scenario, and agent strategy in minutes.

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Full agents for Citrix sessions

Citrix `.lgs` workloads run on Full agents, per-session Activate, Reset, and Kill operations land on every session host. Not thread-based abstractions.

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SUT Monitoring. Windows perfmon

Bind generic Windows performance counters (any counter you wire) to every test execution via the SUT Monitoring step. Counter selection is yours; LoadGen reads what Windows exposes.

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Live cockpit, real-time KPIs

Per-step concurrency, p95 latency, error hotspots, and sessions table visible as the test runs, not buried in a post-test report.

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Analytics & AI

AI-flagged anomaly scoring and analytics reports across every execution. Compare latency drift, login-time changes, and per-step bottlenecks per release.

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Citrix vs AVD comparison

Use the same scenario engine across Citrix and AVD, then compare results across stacks. Migration validation is a positioning/workflow motion, not a separate engine.

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Outcomes

Before LoadGen, after LoadGen.

A qualitative read of what changes when Citrix capacity validation moves onto the same scenario engine that already runs monitoring and uptime.

Citrix capacity proof

Before

Speculation

After

Measured

engine-backed
Auth-flow setup

Before

Hand-scripted

After

7-step wizard

guided
Workload re-use

Before

Author per tool

After

Author once · reuse for monitoring

one engine
Pricing visibility

Before

Quote on request

After

€1,099 / week published

transparent

See it in action

Three live surfaces that ship with the platform.

Live cockpit

Per-step concurrency, p95 latency, sessions table.

Orchestration

vUsers ramp, Full-agent pool allocation, and scenario queue.

Run comparison

Up to 5 runs overlaid. Moments, Errors, per-step.

Where this lives in the year

Three Citrix load-testing windows.

Peak-season capacity validation

Stress-test the Citrix farm against modelled finance-close, year-end, or open-enrolment traffic. Right-size session hosts with measured concurrency, not vendor-estimate spreadsheets.

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Pre-cutover migration baseline

Baseline Citrix Basic vs Enhanced (or Citrix vs AVD) on the same scenario shape. Promote to production behind a measured validation gate, not a guess.

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Release-gate performance proof

Wire LoadGen into the release workflow via the REST API. Block releases on p95 regressions, login-time drift, or error-rate climbs before production users notice.

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Run a representative Citrix load test on your stack.

Bring your StoreFront URL and a workload sketch. We’ll author the `.lgs` scenario on a call, fire it from a managed Full agent, and walk through the live cockpit together.

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Questions

Frequently asked.

Does LoadGen support Citrix Basic (ICA) and Enhanced (HDX)?

Yes. Both modes ship in the 7-step Citrix wizard. The same workload can be replayed across Basic and Enhanced, and the analytics surface compares per-step p95 and login-time differences across the two modes on the same timeline.

How are StoreFront, Gateway, and PNAgent authentication handled?

Each auth flow is a step in the Citrix wizard. External Login is included. The wizard captures the connection profile once. From then on the auth flow is replayed every test without hand-scripted automation.

What’s the difference between a Full agent and a thread-based simulator?

A Full agent runs as an actual Citrix client session. Activate, Reset, and Kill operations land per-session on the real session host. Thread-based simulators abstract these as logical threads inside one process, missing per-session resource pressure on the host.

Can I correlate test load with Citrix infrastructure counters?

Yes, via SUT Monitoring, which binds generic Windows performance counters (any counter the OS exposes) to every test execution. You choose the counter set; LoadGen captures it on the same timeline as the load run.

What latency signal does Citrix load testing report?

Per-transaction generic p95 latency on every step the scenario captures, plus per-step error rates and sessions counters. The same measurement model is used across Citrix, AVD, Horizon, RDS, and Web.

What does Citrix load testing cost?

The Load & Performance Testing module is €1,099 / week at the 50-vUser license tier, with license tiers from 50 to 25,000 vUsers. 25,000+ users tested by LoadGen. LoadGen scales with available test infrastructure and agent capacity. Terms run from 1 week to 5 years. See the pricing page for tier details.

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