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Host Instance category

Nodinite BizTalk Server Monitoring Agent monitors BizTalk host instances across all servers in your BizTalk group. The monitoring agent automatically detects and manages new or removed hosts and host instances, ensuring your environment stays up to date.

Nodinite automatically lists all Host instances as resources, where the name is the Host-name together with the configured server name, for example, 'SendHost32@SEBTPRD01'.
Host instances belong to the group name Application.
Host instances are further grouped by the following Category: Host Instance.

This image shows a Monitor View filtered by the 'Host Instance' category. Note that there is no specific Application associated with the Resource.

What are the key features for Monitoring BizTalk Server Host instances?

Cluster support – Verifies that your hosts are correctly set for a clustered environment
Verify Tracking Host configuration – Alerts if there is not at least one dedicated Tracking host
Host instances exist for host – Alerts if not all host instances exist on each BizTalk Server node
Running host instances – Alerts if a host instance is stopped (and not configured as disabled and/or part of a cluster configuration)
Remote Actions – Supports the execution of remote actions
State Evaluation – Monitors and evaluates the run-time state
Metrics – Provides a Widget with BizTalk group information for use on the Dashboard

What is evaluated for BizTalk host instances?

The table below describes the evaluated states for any host instance:

State	Status	Description	Actions
Unavailable	Resource not available	Evaluation of the 'BizTalk Host Instances' is not possible due to network or security-related problems	Review prerequisites
Error	Stopped and not disabled	A Stopped host instance renders as state 'Error' (if not configured as disabled and/or part of a Windows fail-over cluster resource group)	Start
Error	Invalid tracking host configuration	There must be at least one host/host instance configured for Host Tracking per node in the BizTalk group	Details A BizTalk administrator must manually create dedicated tracking hosts to resolve this matter
Warning	Is throttling	Throttling is above configured thresholds. This behavior is built-in by BizTalk Server design, but may indicate exhausted resources—verify overall performance	Metrics chart: Throttling Metrics
OK	Enabled and running	Host instance is operational, and no other problems are detected	Stop

Tip
You can reconfigure the evaluated state using the Expected State feature on every Resource within Nodinite.

What Remote Actions are available for BizTalk Server?

You can call actions on resources using the Nodinite Web Client tool or programmatically via the Web API. To execute remote actions, some Prerequisites must be satisfied. The user must log on to Nodinite using a Windows Credential and be assigned a Monitor Views with BizTalk Resources where Remote Actions are allowed. See Add or manage Monitor View for more details.

Start
Stop
Restart
Details – Get the details

This image shows the available actions from the Action button menu for a BizTalk host instance.

Metrics chart: What Metrics/Statistics are available for BizTalk Server?

Metrics chart: Host Instance Throttling

You can view individual and group (all instances combined) Throttling Metrics using the Metrics graphs, either as a Remote Action or as a Widget on the Dashboard.

This image shows the throttling chart for BizTalk Host Instances.