When you install and configure Windows Server AppFabric to support monitoring, (as discussed in Chapter 1, Installing Windows Server AppFabric) Windows Server AppFabric automatically provisions a database for storing all of the monitoring events that are captured based on the tracking profile you have selected.
This database is based on a schema that is defined specifically for Windows Server AppFabric, and while it is important that you don't tamper with the schema itself, as it is created on a SQL Server database, information can be gleaned from it by connecting to it using any number of SQL Server tools.
In this recipe, we will look at connecting to the Windows Server AppFabric monitoring database using Visual Studio to familiarize you with some of the most useful data definition objects that are created and used by the Windows Server AppFabric monitoring infrastructure, including the AppFabric Dashboard, Tracked Events viewer, and PowerShell cmdlets (each...