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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

Leveraging the BizTalk monitoring job


A new feature in the BizTalk Server 2010 is a new SQL job that enables you to identify any known issues in the Management, Message Box, or DTA databases. This job and other database jobs are created when you configure a BizTalk group. It scans for issues, but does not fix them for you. The job scans for the following issues in the Management, Message Box, and DTA databases:

  • Messages without any references

  • Messages without reference counts

  • Messages with reference counts less than zero

  • Message references without spool rows

  • Message references without instances

  • Instance states without instances

  • Instance subscriptions without corresponding instances

  • Orphaned DTA service instances

  • Orphaned DTA service instance exceptions

  • Tracking Data Decode Service (TDDS) is not running on any host instance when global tracking option is enabled

Note

By default, the Monitor BizTalk Server job is configured and automated to run once a week and requires a lot of computational (that...