Novell Documentation: Novell SecureLogin 6.0 - Publish an Application for Citrix Deployment

3.2 Publish an Application for Citrix Deployment

To publish an application for Citrix deployment from the Citrix Management Console and SecureLogin do the following:

Select Applications from the Citrix farm.
Right-click Applications, then select Publish Application option from the menu. The Welcome to the Application Publishing Wizard is displayed.
Specify a name for the published application in the Display Name field and description in the Application Description field.
Click Next. The Specify What to Publish dialog box is displayed.
Click Browse to find the location of the application program files and select the executable.
Click OK to return to the Specify What to Publish dialog box.
Specify the relevant directory path in the Working Directory field. The working directory is the directory path of the program executable.

The path to the SLLauncher.exe file of SecureLogin is specified before the published application executable. Enter a space between the SecureLogin and application executable path descriptions.

For more information on SSLauncher.exe, refer to Section 7.10.2, Using SLLauncher Syntax.
In the Command Line field, specify the published application executable path.
Click Next. The Program Neighborhood Settings dialog box is displayed.
Select the options and configure neighborhood settings as required.
Click Next. The Specify Application Appearance dialog box is displayed.
Select and configure application appearance options as required
Click Next. The Specify ICA Client Requirements dialog box is displayed.
Select and configure ICA Client Requirement options as required.
Click Next. The Specify Application Limits dialog box is displayed.
Select and configure application limits as required.
Click Next. The Specify Servers dialog box is displayed. You need to specify a server for application publication and deployment.
Select the relevant server from the Available Servers list.
Click Add.
Click Next. The Specify Users dialog box is displayed.
Check the Show users check box, then drag the pointer to select the users.
Click Add. Depending on the published application, the Specify File Type Associations dialog box may be displayed.
Check the file type check boxes as required.
Click Finish. The published application now displays in the Contents tab of the Citrix Management Console.
Repeat publishing steps for all SecureLogin enabled applications.

When all required applications have been published, test executing an application to make sure SecureLogin for Citrix is successfully installed.

3.2.1 SLLauncher Switches

You can use three switches in conjunction with the SLLauncher executable /d, and /w. Switches are not case sensitive, that is, both /d and /D are valid, however in the case of /w, the process name specified is case sensitive.

/d is used to initiate a trace file that is saved in the SecureLogin program directory. Example syntax:
“C:\Program Files\Novell\SecureLogin\SSLauncher.exe” /d C:\WINNT\System32\notepad.exe
/w used to delay SLLauncher executing until a specific application has executed or environment is present.
For example, to run the executable notepad.exe with SecureLogin, the syntax is:

“C:\Program Files\Novell\SecureLogin\SSLauncher.exe” C:\WINNT\System32\notepad.exe

However, in order for notepad.exe to execute as required, you must set up an environment variable first. This environment is created when the batch file runtest.bat is run on the server.

Use the /w switch, to specify SLLauncher wait to execute until the batch file runtest.bat has completed running, for example:

“C:\Program Files\Novell\SecureLogin\SSLauncher.exe” /w notepad.exe

C:\runtest.bat

Switch Combinations

You can also use switches in combination, for example:

“C:\Program Files\Novell\SecureLogin\SSLauncher.exe” /d /w notepad.exe C:\runtest.bat

When enabling SecureLogin 16 bit application, you must include /16 switch in the Citrix publishing command. You must identify the 16 bit applications because they execute differently to 32 bit applications. For SecureLogin to single sign-on an application, the 16 bit emulator NTVDM.exe must be active.

The following is an example syntax:

“C:\Program Files\Novell\SecureLogin\SSLauncher.exe” /16 C:\WINNT\System32\notepad.exe

Subsequently, each time a 16 bit application is SecureLogin signed-on, the executable NTVDM.exe continues to run. This may cause memory issues if multiple 16 bit applications are SecureLogin single sign-on enabled.

Add the switch /w NTVDM.exe to the Citrix publishing command to terminate NTVDM.exe when the 16 bit application is closed,

To terminate NTVDM.exe when the 16 bit application is closed, add the switch /w NTVDM.exe to the Citrix publishing command.

The following is an example syntax:

“C:\Program Files\Novell\SecureLogin\SSLauncher.exe” /16 /w NTVDM.exe

C:\WINNT\System32\notepad.exe

NOTE:Executing 16 bit applications requires the switch /16 in the command line.