Release Notes

Manage Monitoring for Microsoft BizTalk Server

Manage monitoring thresholds and perform administrative remote actions on BizTalk Server related artifacts

Delegate the power to control all or individual BizTalk Server related artifacts to selected team members and the business. This feature helps the people involved in the support and maintenance team have the power to manage problems with your BizTalk Server without having individual direct access to the Microsoft BizTalk Server Management Console. Limiting the number of attack vectors and having fewer people with high access rights minimizes the risk of disruption of mission-critical services.

Application Management Team	IT Operations	Business
Let your AM team have the power to stop and start services without involving the IT operations team	Stay in complete control with access to everything	Give your business Data and self-service for solutions built using BizTalk Server

Features

The Nodinite Microsoft BizTalk Server Monitoring Agent has the following features:

• Manage Monitoring thresholds
• Perform Remote Actions
• Remote Configuration

The Logging and Archiving feature makes use of the BizTalk Server built-in tracking, and is managed by the Nodinite Microsoft BizTalk Server Logging Agent.

You can add documentation to artifacts in Nodinite using the Repository Model model.

Monitor and manage BizTalk Server related artifacts using on or more role-based Monitor Views. The Resources in the Monitoring group by Categories within Nodinite as follows:

• 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 (with 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 (only track during debugging, otherwise we recommend you leave tracking disabled)
• Send Port Groups
• Scheduled instance(s)
• Ready to run instance(s)

Actions

Fix your BizTalk related problems with ease from a distance without the MMC.

Using the Web Client for Nodinite, Actions can be sent to the Monitoring Agent for BizTalk Server requesting operations to be performed on the monitored resources. With the existing privilege model, you can allow certain users to perform an operation on selected resources.

Following is a list of Actions on BizTalk related Resources that can be remotely executed from Monitor Views:

Host Instances

The following operations are supported on BizTalk Host Instances

• Start
• Stop
• Details

Receive Locations / Receive Ports

The following operations are supported on BizTalk Receive Locations

• Enable
• Disable
• Details
• Enable/Disable Tracking

Send Ports

• 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)
• Terminate all suspended instances per application (Not Resumable)
• Manage suspended specific messages from the paged list
  • View Context (if the Context is allowed to be displayed from the global setting)
  • View body (first 1000 bytes) (if the Body is allowed to be displayed, settings are available from within the global settings)
  • View service instance details
  • Download full payload (if the Body is allowed to be displayed, settings are available from within the global settings)
  • Resume
  • Terminate
• Remove
• Orphaned DTA Service instance(s)
• Messages with a negative ref count
• Messages without ref count

Supported Versions

• All Versions ranging 2006 - 2020 are fully supported.

• All Editions are also supported and customer use/configuration (Cores/nodes/...) does not have any impact on the license model/costs.

  • BizTalk Server Standard Edition
  • BizTalk Server Enterprise Edition
  • BizTalk Server Evaluation Edition
  • BizTalk Server Developer Edition

See Prerequisites for BizTalk Monitoring Agent for additional details to install and run the agent.

Miscellaneous

The Nodinite agent for Microsoft BizTalk Server enables you to control and monitor Microsoft BizTalk Server resources. The monitoring agent must be installed with 1 instance per BizTalk Group. The agent should not be clustered due to the use of local configuration files. The agent can be clustered if the service is installed on a shared disc, managed by the Windows fail-over cluster.

To monitor a BizTalk Server group, the agent must be installed on a server with BizTalk Administration Console, and that has local network access to BizTalk's SQL database (management and messagebox). The BizTalk administration console version must be the same or higher compared to the BizTalk Server group being controlled and monitored.

Release Log

For detailed information about the features and bug fixes, please see the Release Log

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Next Step

Install BizTalk Monitoring Agent
Configuration of the agent

Related

Prerequisites for BizTalk Monitoring Agent
Monitor Views