This chapter will provide some recipes for monitoring and maintaining BizTalk. To fully describe BizTalk operations, it would require a book by itself. Here, focus lies on some important aspects of operating BizTalk, keeping it healthy, troubleshooting, and monitoring. The recipes in this book can help you as an administrator to do day-to-day operations, help in diagnosing issues, and thinking about the best fit tool for monitoring your BizTalk environment.
Monitoring BizTalk can primarily be done with the out of the box Administration Console, but the focus is mainly BizTalk itself, managing applications, adapters, and so on, and for troubleshooting purposes. Microsoft offers the System Center Operation Manager to enable overall end-to-end monitoring of your entire enterprise IT infrastructure and its applications (that is, other server products such as BizTalk, Exchange, and third-party software).
To use SCOM solely for BizTalk would use too much overhead, require training for...