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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

Alternative BizTalk monitoring solution—BizTalk360


Monitoring BizTalk can be done using SCOM by administrators and issues can be diagnosed and resolved using the BizTalk Administration Console. To use SCOM solely for BizTalk monitoring, is too costly for mid-sized organizations or even an enterprise. It requires highly skilled people as learning to operate SCOM is a steep learning curve. Besides the skill set, it also requires an investment in hardware and software. Since SCOM can monitor any Microsoft product, Azure, and third-party products, it would be a waste of resources to just use SCOM for monitoring BizTalk.

The BizTalk Administration Console is a very useful tool with multiple purposes, such as maintaining a BizTalk group, configuring applications, adapters, and so on. It is one tool provided by Microsoft to target all audiences such as developers, IT professionals, performance experts, and operators. Due to these characteristics, there are two major drawbacks:

  • It is too powerful...