Yes, you can be like Wolverine with NMM. How? With my favorite feature in NMM, Auto-Heal of Broken hosts. There's a good chance you've seen this at some point, where a host provisions in a pool and comes up with an "unavailable" status. The cause of this can be a variety of things, but NMM can help mitigate these occurrences and even more than just an "unavailable" status. The auto-healing feature under the auto-scaling configuration for the host pool can save you from those early morning calls where users can't login due to hosts being unavailable or even FSLogix being in an unhealthy state. Here's what those options look like:
NMM can attempt to restart the host to get this back into a good state and then even remove the problematic host and recreate a fresh host. You could essentially run into a problem with hosts coming up in an unavailable state and your customer or team would have never known this. All the customer would know is that they were able to login and your team can sleep in (ha!). I tell our partners all the time that "Nerdio's magical, but no magic ingredients", but this one feels like a bit of development wizardry. I can't recommend enabling Auto-Healing of hosts enough.
Our documentation on auto-scaling including an auto-heal overview can be found in this link:
Auto-Scale Settings for Hostpools in NMM
For more on session host availability troubleshooting:
Troubleshoot Session Host Availability
I'm super excited to hear what features you're all a fan off, please drop a comment and have a great day!
Chuck M
Solutions Support Manger here @ Nerdio
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