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BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By : Steef-Jan Wiggers
Book Image

BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By: Steef-Jan Wiggers

Overview of this book

BizTalk enables the integration and managment of automated business processes within or across organizational boundaries. To build a solid BizTalk solution, deploy a robust environment, and keep it running smoothly you sometimes need to broaden your spectrum, explore all possibilities, and choose the best solution for your purpose. By following the recipes in this book you will gain required knowledge and succeed in your implementation. With BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook, you can leverage and hone your skills. More than 50 recipes will guide you in implementing BizTalk solutions, setting up a robust and well performing BizTalk environment, and choosing the right solution for monitoring it. As a developer or administrator you greatly benefit from taking these recipes to work. In this book a developer and administrator will see how to deploy, build, and maintain a BizTalk environment. How to apply patterns for robust orchestrations, messaging and testing. Administrators will learn to set up an environment using Microsoft best practices and tools to deliver a robust, performing and durable BizTalk environment. Besides setting up their environments administrators can also decide through a number of recipes how to monitor and maintain the environment. A developer can contribute to a healthy environment by implementing instrumentation in artefacts, applying well suited pattern(s) and testing the solutions built.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


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...