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Delivery groups specify the category of users to whose devices you deploy combinations of policies, apps, and actions. Inclusion in a delivery group is usually based on users' characteristics, such as company, country, department, office address, title, and so on. Delivery groups give you greater control over which user gets what resources and when they get them. You can deploy a delivery group to everyone or to a more narrowly defined group of users.

Deploying to a delivery group means sending a push notification to all users with iOS, Windows Phone 8.1, and Windows 8.1 tablet devices who belong to the delivery group to reconnect to XenMobile, so that you can reevaluate the devices and deploy apps, policies, and actions; users with other platform devices receive the resources immediately if they are already connected or, based on their scheduling policy, the next time they connect.

In a target XenMobile environment, there may be multiple delivery groups to which deployments need to be carried out on a regular basis. Whenever a new delivery group is created and users are added to the delivery group, administrators are required to deploy the policies, apps and actions associated with the delivery group to all users within the group. When a delivery group deployment fails, the users in that particular group may not be able to download the latest version of the policies, apps and actions which may render them to still use the obsolete ones. This may pose a serious security threat to the XenMobile environment. Also, when there is an unusual delay in deploying the policies, apps and actions in a particular delivery group, users registering for the first time in the delivery group may be frustrated owing to poor experience with the connectivity of the XenMobile server. To avoid such unpleasant experience for both the user as well the administrators, it is better to know the exact success/failure of each deployment. The XMDeliveryGroupTest test help administrators in this regard.

By hitting the XenMobile host URL using the HTTPS Client, the XM Delivery Group Deployments test pulls out the number of deployments that were successful and the deployments that failed for each delivery group. In addition, this test also reports the number of deployments that are currently pending. Using this test, administrators can figure out the real cause for the failure of the deployments in the delivery group and rectify the same before security violations occur on the target XenMobile environment.

This test will not report metrics for Citrix XenMobile 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7 versions.

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
pending	Indicates the number of deployments still pending for this delivery group.	Number	A consistent increase in the value of this measure is a cause for concern, as it could indicate a bottleneck in the delivery group deployment that could be slowing down the deployment process.
success	Indicates the number of successful deployments of this delivery group.	Number
failed	Indicates the number of failed deployments of this delivery group.	Number	Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know the details of failed deployments.