Manage Monitoring for Microsoft BizTalk Server

Install and Update Tool

Take full control of your BizTalk Server environment—manage monitoring thresholds, perform secure remote actions, and streamline administration with Nodinite.

Empower your team and business users to manage all or selected BizTalk Server artifacts—securely and efficiently—without direct access to the Microsoft BizTalk Server Management Console. By reducing the number of privileged users, you minimize risk and strengthen the security of your mission-critical integrations.

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Features

The Nodinite Microsoft BizTalk Server Monitoring Agent delivers:

• Effortless management of Monitoring thresholds
• Secure, audit-logged Remote Actions
• Centralized Remote Configuration

Logging and Archiving leverage BizTalk Server's built-in tracking, managed by the Nodinite Microsoft BizTalk Server Logging Agent.

Add documentation to artifacts using the Repository Model.

Monitor and manage BizTalk Server artifacts using one or more role-based Monitor Views. The Resources in the Monitoring group are organized by Categories in Nodinite, including:

• Active instances
• Application
• Dehydrated orchestration instance(s)
• Health Check
  • BizTalk Configuration Overview
  • Messages with a negative ref count
  • Messages without ref count
  • Orphaned DTA Service instances
  • Run-time configuration comparison
  • Spool count
  • Suspended instances
  • Throttling
  • Tracking Data count
  • Tracking for Default Pipelines
• Host instances (cluster support)
• Orchestrations
• Pipelines
• Receive Locations
• Send Ports
• Suspended Instances
  • Resumable
  • Not Resumable
• Tracking
  • Pipelines
  • Receive Ports (One-Way)
  • Receive Ports (Request/Response)
  • Send Ports
  • Send Ports (Solicit/Response)
• Orchestration (track only during debugging; otherwise, keep tracking disabled for performance)
• Send Port Groups
• Scheduled instance(s)
• Ready to run instance(s)

Actions

Resolve BizTalk Server issues quickly and remotely—no MMC required!

With the Web Client for Nodinite, you can send Actions to the Monitoring Agent for BizTalk Server, enabling secure, role-based operations on monitored resources. Grant specific users permission to perform only the actions they need, on the resources they manage.

Remotely execute these Actions on BizTalk Resources from Monitor Views:

Host Instances

Supported operations for BizTalk Host Instances:

• Start
• Stop
• Details

Receive Locations / Receive Ports

Supported operations for BizTalk Receive Locations:

• Enable
• Disable
• Details
• Enable/Disable Tracking

Send Ports, Pipelines, and Orchestrations

• Send Ports
• Pipelines
• Start/Stop/Enlist/Unenlist/Details for Send Ports
• Start/Stop/Enlist/Unenlist/Details for Orchestrations
• Resume all suspended instances per application
• Terminate all suspended instances per application (Resumable/Not Resumable)
• Manage specific suspended messages from the paged list:
  • View Context (if allowed by global settings)
  • View body (first 1000 bytes, if allowed by global settings)
  • View service instance details
  • Download full payload (if allowed by global settings)
  • Resume
  • Terminate
• Remove:
  • Orphaned DTA Service instance(s)
  • Messages with a negative ref count
  • Messages without ref count

Supported Versions

• Fully supports all BizTalk Server versions from 2006 to 2020
• All Editions supported—your configuration (Cores/nodes/...) does not affect licensing
  • BizTalk Server Standard Edition
  • BizTalk Server Enterprise Edition
  • BizTalk Server Evaluation Edition
  • BizTalk Server Developer Edition

See Prerequisites for BizTalk Monitoring Agent for installation and agent requirements.

Miscellaneous

The Nodinite agent for Microsoft BizTalk Server enables secure, centralized control and monitoring of BizTalk Server resources. Install one agent instance per BizTalk Group. The agent should not be clustered unless installed on a shared disk managed by Windows failover cluster.

To monitor a BizTalk Server group, install the agent on a server with the BizTalk Administration Console and local network access to BizTalk's SQL databases. The console version must match or exceed the BizTalk Server group version.

Release Notes

For details on features and bug fixes, see the Release Notes

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Next Step

Install BizTalk Monitoring Agent
Configuration of the agent

Related Topics

Prerequisites for BizTalk Monitoring Agent
Monitor Views