Data Collector

Zone data collectors are communication gateways between zones in farms that have more than one zone. Zone data collectors communicate information used by MetaFrame Presentation Server to list available applications for users and, when users open an application, to locate the most appropriate server on which to run the application.

Zone data collectors store dynamic information about the servers, published applications, server load, and user sessions in their zone. The zone data collector tracks, for example, which applications are available and how many sessions are running on each server in the zone.

Only zone data collectors send messages between zones, reducing communication traffic in the farm because every server does not need to communicate with every other server.