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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

Overview of this book

Windows Server AppFabric provides a set of integrated capabilities that extend IIS and the Windows Server platform making it easier to build, scale and manage composite applications today. Windows Server AppFabric delivers the first wave of innovation within an exciting new middleware paradigm which brings performance, scalability and enhanced management capabilities to the platform for applications built on the .NET Framework using Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation.'Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook' shows you how to get the most from WCF and WF services using Windows Server AppFabric leveraging the capabilities for building composite solutions on the .NET platform. Packed with over 60 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, 'Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook' starts by showing you how to set up your development environment to start using Windows Server AppFabric quickly. The book then moves on to provide comprehensive coverage of the most important capabilities provided by Windows Server AppFabric, diving right in to hands-on topics such as deploying WCF and WF applications to Windows Server AppFabric and leveraging the distributed caching, scalable hosting, persistence, monitoring and management capabilities that Windows Server AppFabric has to offer, with recipes covering a full spectrum of complexity from simple to intermediate and advanced.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Securing the Event Collection service


Windows Server AppFabric writes emitted data from applications and services to ETW. The emitted data is then further captured from the ETW session by Windows Server AppFabric's Event Collection service and gets written to the monitoring store.

Note

Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) is a high-speed tracing facility that provides a tracing mechanism for events raised by applications (as well as kernel-mode drivers). ETW can be broken down into three distinct components:

  • Controller is responsible for starting and stopping event tracing sessions (without having to restart the application)

  • Provider emits events that go in to ETW session

  • Consumer reads events off the ETW session and consumes the event data based on the consumer logic

The following diagram shows how the WCF/WF events emitted by a Windows Server AppFabric hosted service are written to the monitoring database:

In this recipe, we will get to know how we can secure the following two important parts...