Automating Session Host Rotation in ControlUp for an On-Premises RDS Environment

A discussion about automating and monitoring Session Hosts in ControlUp for an on-premises RDS environment. The conversation touches on using custom scripts, tags, and the ControlUp console to streamline the process. The prototype for this solution will be shared with a team member later.

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We have an on-premises RDS environment with 2 Connection Brokers and 20 Session Hosts. Currently, to take a Session Host out of rotation, we manually log into one of the Connection Brokers and right-click the desired host to select "Do not allow new connections", which sets its status to FALSE. This helps us track which hosts are in or out of service.

We’re exploring whether ControlUp can streamline this process. Ideally, we’d like to:

• Run a custom script (possibly on the Connection Broker) that prompts us to select a Session Host to remove or add back into rotation.

• Display a column within the ControlUp console indicating the host’s availability status (e.g., TRUE for in rotation, FALSE for out of rotation).

Is this type of automation and visibility possible within ControlUp?

Of course! sounds like a classic use case of ControlUp automation. and I guess we can use the tags column for the availability status

Cc @member @member @member @member or @member who should be able to give more details

It seems I’m tagged by someone who is on holidays!

But yeah, I’d create a script that would run against a machine and in the configuration of the script you can specify where the script is going to be executed

So I’d run the script (as you manually do) on the connection broker and that script would get automatically as a parameter the name of the machine you « right clicked » to run the script

No need to type the machine name

And as Yoni mentioned our custom tags feature can be used to store the status

https://support.controlup.com/docs/add-tags-column-to-information-grid

Not in front of a laptop right now but I can share with you a prototype later today @member

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