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Citrix Provisioning Services deliver patches, updates, and other configuration information to target devices i.e. virtual machines/desktops, at boot time through vDisks over the network. The target devices boot from the network, connect to the target PVS server and stream down the associated vDisks after the boot process. If the boot process of the target devices takes longer time to complete or fails, vDisks containing required information will not be streamed to the devices. As a result, the devices will bot be booted or updated with latest information. This, in turn, will seriously affect the user experience with the target devices and even delay/stop business-critical service deliveries performed from the devices. To avoid this, it is imperative to continuously track how quickly the devices are booted so that you will be forewarned of probable delays and failures. The StrmProcessEventTest can help you in this regard!

The test monitors the target PVS server and promptly captures the average and maximum time taken by the target devices to complete the boot process. In addition, this test also reveals the count of devices that are booted successfully and the number of devices that are slow at boot process. These metrics will ease troubleshooting when validating PVS functionality as well as when tracking down potential issues in the boot process.

Outputs of the test : One set of results for the Provisioning server being monitored.

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
avgBootTimeDev	Indicates the average time taken by the devices to complete boot process.	Seconds	The detailed diagnosis of this measure reveals the device name, the time at which the boot process was started and the time duration of the boot process in seconds.
deviceMovedforIO	Indicates the number of devices for which the streaming process has been directed to the PVS server through IO port.	Number	Using this measure, administrators can easily find out how many devices established connections to the target PVS server successfully. The detailed diagnosis of this measure the time at which the devices were moved to IO port, the device name and IP address and port of the target PVS server.
deviceSlowBootUp	Indicates the number of devices that are slow during boot process.	Number	The detailed diagnosis of this measure reveals the device name, the time at which the boot process was started and the time duration of the boot process in seconds.
devicesBooted	Indicates the number of devices that are booted sucessfully.	Number	The detailed diagnosis of this measure reveals the device name, the time at which the boot process was started and the time duration of the boot process in seconds.
devicesInLoginInitiated	Indicates the number of devices that requested vDisk from the target PVS server.	Number	The detailed diagnosis of this measure reveals the device name, and the time at which the boot process was started.
devicesInServiceGranted	Indicates the number of devices that are successfully streaming the assigned vDisk.	Number	A high value is preferred for this measure. The detailed diagnosis of this measure reveals the device name, the time at which the boot process was started, IP address and port.
maxBootTimeDevices	Indicates the maximum time taken by the devices to complete the boot process.	Seconds	The value of this measure should be low.The detailed diagnosis of this measure reveals the device name, the time at which the boot process was started and the time duration of the boot process in seconds.
poweredDownDevices	Indicates the number of devices that are powered off.	Number	The detailed diagnosis of this measure reveals the device name, and the time at which the boot process was started.