Test Horizon Connections

Test Horizon Connections.md

Use these scripts to test VMware Horizon client connections. The idea with these simple scripts is that a user might be telling IT staff that "they can't connect" or "it's not working." These are simple scripts that can be run to collect useful information into a TestHorizonConnections.*.log file for sending to the IT staff.

The log file will get automatically created in the users Downloads folder. the * is a timestamp. The file will be named something like this:

• TestHorizonConnections.2023-11-06T12_19_46.5917880-06_00.log

Windows

Run this command from PowerShell:

iwr https://shorturl.at/oyEJZ -useb | iex

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MacOS

Run this command from Terminal:

curl -fsSL https://shorturl.at/axz15 | /bin/zsh

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Test-HorizonConnections.ps1

# README: https://gist.github.com/VertigoRay/6b78dbf5ce7d9c4edcea1a1d057b0714

Start-Transcript "${env:UserProfile}\Downloads\TestHorizonConnections.$((Get-Date -Format 'O').Replace(':', '_')).log" -IncludeInvocationHeader

Write-Output '#########################################'
Write-Output '# IP Info'
Write-Output '#########################################'

Invoke-RestMethod 'https://ipinfo.io/json'

Write-Output '#########################################'
Write-Output '# VMware Horizon View Client: Prefs'
Write-Output '#########################################'

$prefs = Get-Content "${env:APPDATA}\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\prefs.txt"
Write-Output $prefs

Write-Output '#########################################'
Write-Output '# Testing Network Connections'
Write-Output '#########################################'

foreach ($recentServer in ([xml] $prefs).Root.RecentServer) {
    Test-NetConnection $recentServer.ServerName -Port 443
  
    foreach ($secondaryServer in $recentServer.SecondaryServerList.SecondaryServer.name) {
        [uri] $serverUri = $secondaryServer
        Test-NetConnection $serverUri.Host -Port $serverUri.Port
    }
}

Stop-Transcript

testHorizonConnections.sh

#!/bin/zsh
# README: https://gist.github.com/VertigoRay/6b78dbf5ce7d9c4edcea1a1d057b0714

log="$HOME/Downloads/TestHorizonConnections.$(date +%FT%k_%m_%s%z).log"
echo "Logging to: $log"
exec 3>&1 1>$log 2>&1
#set -x

echo '#########################################'
echo '# IP Info'
echo '#########################################'

curl -fsSL ipinfo.io/json

echo
echo '#########################################'
echo '# IP Config'
echo '#########################################'

ifconfig | grep "inet "

echo
echo '#########################################'
echo '# VMware Horizon View Client: Prefs'
echo '#########################################'

defaults read com.vmware.horizon

echo
echo '##################################################'
echo '# Testing Network Connections: Brokers'
echo '##################################################'

brokerHistory=$(defaults read com.vmware.horizon broker-history)

foreach broker in $(echo $brokerHistory); do
    #RegEx:https://regex101.com/r/bkh6jR/1
    if [[ $broker =~ 'https://([^:]+):([0-9]+)/' ]]; then
        nc -vz ${match[1]} ${match[2]}
    fi
done

echo
echo '##################################################'
echo '# Testing Network Connections: Trusted Servers'
echo '##################################################'

trustedServers=$(defaults read com.vmware.horizon trustedServers)

foreach trusted in $(echo $trustedServers); do
    #RegEx:https://regex101.com/r/bkh6jR/1
    if [[ $trusted =~ 'https://([^:]+):([0-9]+)/' ]]; then
        nc -vz ${match[1]} ${match[2]}
    fi
done