Monitoring Microsoft BizTalk Server
This section describes what's being monitored and the rules for how Nodinite translates this into meaningful monitoring states. Also, many remote commands are available as Actions to help you swiftly manage BizTalk Server-related problems. Actions are further detailed on the Managing BizTalk Server page.
The agent auto-discovers all your deployed BizTalk Server artifacts. Simply deploy new BizTalk Server applications and they will automatically be detected and get monitored and listed within your Monitor Views.
Monitoring Features
State Evaluation - Makes sure the BizTalk Server and deployed artifacts have the intended run-time state
If Nodinite can't check the state of your BizTalk Server, chances are no one else can either
Metrics - Provides graphs as both Actions and Widgets with run-time information, for example, throttling (with thresholds for alerts)
Statistics - Helps you get insights about what BizTalk Applications fail with suspended messages, month by month
Health checks - Helps you keep your environment tidy and in sync. Provides some of the same features as the Terminator Microsoft support tool
Automatic Discovery
- Nodinite Microsoft BizTalk Server agents make use of the Microsoft SDKs and offer you an automatic discovery of your BizTalk Server. Sharing and/or dividing access to any individual BizTalk artifact is very easy from within Nodinite.
State evaluation for BizTalk Server
Overview of one BizTalk Server group, also available as a widget on the Dashboard
One artifact (for example one receive location) will be displayed within Nodinite as one Resource. If you have 42 deployed receive locations, then you will have 42 Resources in Nodinite.
- The Application name is based on the name from any given BizTalk Server Application:
- All artifacts of a given type belongs to an appropriate category The various monitoring capabilities for the BizTalk Server agent are expressed as Resources and are grouped by Categories. The Categories are unique for each Monitoring Agent.
The following Categories are provided by the BizTalk Monitoring Agent:
List of BizTalk Server Categories
The BizTalk Monitoring Agent also supports the execution of Remote Actions on most resources using the Nodinite Web Client tool or by programmatically calling the Web API. To execute remote actions some Prerequisites must be satisfied. The user must be logged on to Nodinite using a Windows Credential. The user must also be assigned a Monitor View with BizTalk Resources where Remote Actions are allowed. See Add or manage Monitor View for more details.
Tip
Users can be fine-tuned regarding assigned access (through the use of Roles and Monitor Views) to selected BizTalk artifacts on just about any level (everything, by selected applications, by selected categories or even individual artifacts)
Table with overview of all monitoring features for BizTalk Server
* This feature requires using a Monitoring Database
Alert history for BizTalk Server
During root cause analysis or other purposes, it might be helpful to understand how often your BizTalk Server problems happen. If your Monitor View allows it, you can search for historical state changes for the provided time span, either for all your BizTalk Server or individually. This topic is further detailed within the generic instructions on how to Add or manage Monitor View page.
| Search | Resource history |
|---|---|
 Search for alert history for all resources in the Monitor View |
 Alert history for the selected BizTalk artifact |
Frequently asked questions
Use the troubleshooting guide to find the FAQ and answers to known problems.