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uLoad balancing support. With load balancing, MetaFrame servers can be logically pooled in a server farm. When a user launches a published application that is configured for load balancing, the load balancing support routes the application to the most lightly loaded server in the farm for execution. You can create a farm of servers that run predefined applications. The load determination criteria for any server in the farm can be fine-tuned from any server in the farm. You can view and manage user sessions, regardless of which server in the farm is hosting the session. Both MetaFrame and WINFRAME servers can join the same server farm.

1RWH Each Citrix server that will support load balancing must have Citrix Load Balancing Services installed.

uActivation code-based licensing. MetaFrame uses the Citrix serial number/activation code licensing scheme. Every licensed Citrix product (Citrix server software or server extension) has an associated serial number. When you install the software, you enter the product’s serial number. You must then register the license number with Citrix to get an activation code. Use the Citrix Licensing utility to activate your software by entering the code..

See Chapter 3, “Citrix Licensing,” for information on how to activate your MetaFrame server software. You must activate your MetaFrame software after installing it.

uICA Client Creator. Use the ICA Client Creator to create diskettes containing the following Citrix ICA Clients: DOS, Win16, Win32, and Web. See the Citrix ICA Client Administrator’s Guides for those clients.

uWeb computing support. MetaFrame supports Web computing features that let you publish applications on your corporate Intranet or the Internet. From a single point, administrators and Webmasters can publish an application, automatically generate ALE HTML code, and deploy the application for use throughout the local or extended enterprise. Users simply point their browsers to an Internet or Intranet page, where they can access Windows-based applications regardless of their physical location.

The Citrix ICA Windows Web Clients can be used with any Windows Web browser to support launched applications. When used with Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, applications can be embedded within Web pages. Firewall support lets you interpose firewalls between your MetaFrame server and the Internet for increased security. See the Citrix ICA Client Administrator’s Guide for the Citrix ICA Web Clients for more information.