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Not Resumable - Suspended Instances

Get alerts and manage the not resumable suspended instances in BizTalk (grouped by BizTalk application name)

Here's an example of the Suspended instance(s) (not resumable) resources as seen in a Monitor View

Application Name=BizTalk Application name, 1 entry for each unique name
Category Name="Suspended instance(s) (not resumable)"
Resource Name="Suspended instance(s) (not resumable)"

Remote Actions - Support the execution of Remote Actions
State Evaluation - Monitors and evaluates the current numbers

Important
You should always first try to resolve suspended instances working with the resumable ones first. The not resumable instances will be automatically deleted by BizTalk when you successfully terminate or resume the resumable ones. If you have no resumable suspended instances left, the only purpose of the not resumable instances is to provide debug and trace information so you can find the root cause for the actual error. Eventually, you must rid the not resumable instances!

Tip
We do not recommend that you apply the Auto Healing feature on resources of this category; You should deal with these problems manually!

What is being evaluated for 'Suspended instance(s) (not resumable)'?

The table below shows the different monitoring states:

State	Status	Description	Actions
Unavailable	Resource not available	Evaluation of the 'BizTalk Suspended Instances' is not possible either due to network or security-related problems	Review prerequisites
Error	Too many	Number of rows are above configured threshold	Manage suspended instances Suspended instances history Terminate all Edit thresholds
Warning	Too many	Number of rows are above configured threshold	Manage suspended instances Suspended instances history Terminate all Edit thresholds
OK	Within thresholds	Number of rows are below configured threshold	Manage suspended instances Suspended instances history Terminate all Edit thresholds

Tip
The evaluated state may be reconfigured using the Expected State functionality on every Resource within Nodinite.

What are Remote Actions?

The following Remote Actions are available for the Suspended instance(s) (not resumable) Resource:

Manage Suspended Instances

When you click on the Manage Suspended Instances menu item in the Actions button, a modal will be loaded with an Overview of the currently Suspended Instances (not resumable):
Here's an example of a list with an overview of all currently suspended instances (not resumable) for the selected BizTalk Server Application by name

The following features are available from within this modal:

Terminate - One by one
Terminate - Selected (at least one)
View Details - Selected
View Context Properties - Selected
Reload page

Terminate Suspended Instances

When working with 'Suspended instance(s) (not resumable)' you can view the details and context properties, but eventually, you must manually rid these. Nodinite provides the following options:

Terminate all - Remove all with just one click
Single instance - Remove selected suspended instance, one at a time
Multiple instances - Remove all selected suspended instances with just one click

Use the Nodinite Agent Monitoring Database since you will have a backup with history and some details left if you accidentally remove the wrong set of suspended instances.

Single instance

Removing suspended instances one by one is a tedious but important process. You should dig into the problem before removing the Instances. The actual problem may otherwise roll over to someone else and become much bigger.

In the modal page loaded by using the Manage suspended instances action, you can further click on the Terminate menu item in the Actions button.

Multiple instances

In the modal page loaded by using the Manage suspended instances action, you can check one or more suspended instances and remove them in one sweep by clicking on the With selected button and selecting the Terminate menu item.

At least one suspended instance must be checked otherwise this button is not enabled

Details

Click the small button to the left of the Actions button to expand the selected row with additional information about the suspended instance. The information is divided into two tabs:

Details - General information
Messages
- Message Context - Context properties

Example with general information about the suspended instance

Message context

The context properties available at the time of the suspend operation are available in the 'Messages' Context tab. The table can be filtered for your convenience and speed to find the information you seek.

Here's an example of a filtered list of context properties for the suspended instance

Suspended Instances history

If you have configured the Nodinite BizTalk Server Monitoring Agent to use the Monitoring Agent Database the feature 'Suspended Instances history' will be enabled and available.

For the selected BizTalk Server Application you can review the history for 'Suspended instance(s) (not resumable)'.
Example with a list of historical suspended instances

Info
Active 'Suspended instance(s) (not resumable)' entries are not part of the history

Note
The historical suspended instances have limited information (Details and context properties are not preserved)

Terminate all

For the selected BizTalk Server Application you can terminate all active 'Suspended instance(s) (not resumable)'. If you have configured the Nodinite BizTalk Server Monitoring Agent to use the Monitoring Agent Database feature then the active entries will also be added to the Suspended Instances history.

When you click on the Terminate all menu item in the Action button, you will be prompted to confirm operation:

Edit thresholds

By default, all BizTalk Applications use the global thresholds set in the Configuration. You can manage individual thresholds by clicking on the Edit thresholds menu item in the 'Actions' button.

When you click on the Save button; The configuration for the selected BizTalk Server Application name will use specific configuration instead of the global values.

If you see this Warning, it means global values are currently being used for the selected BizTalk Server Application.