load eveluator

The new theory for placing a server off-line is to apply an “Out of service” load evaluator instead of disabling logons. The “Out of service” load evaluator consists of an empty Scheduling rule. The issue with this theory is that if you automate the move of a server into an “Out of service” load evaluator for maintenance, reboots, etc, then how do you know which load evaluator to move it back into when it’s ready to be placed back into production? I guess most would hard code this, or reference it from an ini file, etc, but that requires too much maintenance, as it can be difficult to manage in the larger farms that make use of different load evaluators across different hardware and load managed groups. So I enhanced the original version of this script to address this exact problem. It will read the existing load evaluator and write it against a registry value called PreviousLoadEvaluator under the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Citrix key. Then you can easily re-run this script with certain parameters to set the load evaluator back to what it was previously using. A simple concept that works very well.

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