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Tracking Tab

The Tracking tab of the Remote Configuration lets the Nodinite Microsoft BizTalk Server Monitoring Agent evaluate BizTalk tracking settings, and change them for you, to keep compliance and performance in line. The Tracking feature page explains the Resources it creates.

Click on a tab to manage related tracking settings:

Animation: Tracking, One-way Receive Ports, an existing tracking configuration with the filter that matches every port, and a second filter ^INT001 added
Tracking › One-way Receive Ports: open the existing tracking configuration (its filter [\s\S]* matches every port) and Add a second filter, ^INT001. After Save and close, a matching port with other tracking settings shows a warning on its Resource.

The Tracking tab with the Pipelines sub-tab and its two warning options
The Tracking tab with its six sub-tabs.

You can use a filter to allow the system to automatically apply the intended tracking settings. A single example (it applies to most tabs) is in One-way Receive Ports.

Warning

When this feature is in use, you must educate BizTalk Administrators, as Nodinite will change tracking settings according to these settings.

Pipelines

  • Warn for 'Track Events' disabled - When enabled, the agent evaluates tracking settings for Pipelines and warns when 'Port start and end events' and 'Message send and receive events' are disabled
  • Warn for 'Track Message Bodies' enabled - When enabled, the agent evaluates tracking settings for pipelines and warns when 'Message before pipeline processing' and/or 'Message after pipeline processing' are enabled

The Pipelines sub-tab with Warn for Track Events disabled and Warn for Track Message Bodies enabled, both checked
The Pipelines sub-tab.

Tip

Review Recommended tracking settings for default pipelines to address known BizTalk bugs and ensure proper configuration. See Tracking for Default Pipelines for details.

One-way Receive Ports

Manage tracking settings for One-way Receive Ports (see Receive Locations).
The One-way Receive Ports sub-tab with its Enable box, Description, and one tracking configuration
The One-way Receive Ports sub-tab.

  • Enable tracking for matching one-way Receive ports - Apply the configurations below to the matching One-way Receive Ports.
  • Description - User friendly brief description field.

The following fields apply to most tabs:

Click on Add button to add entries, then expand the accordion. You do not need to remove entries when testing, you can disable both on configuration level and on expression level.

  • Tracking configurations - One or more named configurations with tracking settings to apply automatically when a difference is detected.
    • Enabled - Flag to enable/disable this particular configuration.
    • Description - User friendly brief description field.
    • Four request-tracking boxes: Request message before port processing, Request message after port processing, Request properties before port processing, and Request properties after port processing. The agent enables the checked ones on the matching ports.
    • RegEx based matches (for example One-way Receive Ports to match) - One or more expressions to match ports by name.
      • Enabled - When checked, this RegEx is in use.
      • Filter expression - The RegEx expression.

A tracking configuration with Enabled, Description, the four request-tracking boxes checked, and two filters, the second ^INT001
A tracking configuration with two filters.

Two-way Receive Ports

Manage tracking settings for Two-way Receive Ports.
The Two-way Receive Ports sub-tab with its Enable box, Description, and one tracking configuration
The Two-way Receive Ports sub-tab.

  • Enable tracking for matching two-way Receive ports - Apply the configurations to the matching Two-way Receive Ports.
  • Description - User friendly brief description field.
  • Tracking Configurations - See example in One-way Receive Ports.

Orchestrations

Manage tracking settings for Orchestrations.
The Orchestrations sub-tab with Disable Orchestration Tracking not checked
The Orchestrations sub-tab.

  • Disable Orchestration Tracking - When checked, the agent turns off tracking for every Orchestration in the BizTalk Server group.

Warning

This setting must be communicated and well understood by developers and BizTalk System Administrators!

The Orchestrations sub-tab with Disable Orchestration Tracking checked
Disable Orchestration Tracking checked: the agent turns off Orchestration tracking.

One-way Send Ports

Manage tracking settings for One-way Send Ports.
The One-way Send Ports sub-tab with its Enable box, Description, and one tracking configuration
The One-way Send Ports sub-tab.

  • Enable tracking for matching one-way Send ports - Apply the configurations to the matching One-way Send Ports.
  • Description - User friendly brief description field.
  • Tracking Configurations - See example in One-way Receive Ports.

Two-way Send Ports

Manage tracking settings for Two-way Send Ports.
The Two-way Send Ports sub-tab with its Enable box, Description, and one tracking configuration
The Two-way Send Ports sub-tab.

  • Enable tracking for matching two-way Send ports - Apply the configurations to the matching Two-way Send Ports.
  • Description - User friendly brief description field.
  • Tracking Configurations - See example in One-way Receive Ports.

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