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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

Identifying bottlenecks with the Performance Monitor


There are different tools to monitor the BizTalk Server using SCOM or BizTalk360. Both are excellent tools, but are not suitable to measure performance or to examine how a program such as BizTalk affects a machine's performance, both in real time and by collecting log data for later analysis. You can use the Windows Performance Monitor for this task. The Windows Performance Monitor is an MMC snap-in that combines the functionality of previous standalone tools including performance logs and alerts, the Server Performance Advisor, and the System Monitor. It provides a graphical interface for customizing data collector sets and event trace sessions.

In case an administrator is facing several potential bottlenecks such as the BizTalk databases, adapters, pipelines, the filesystem, and the orchestration, the performance monitor can be a useful tool to use instead of reading the BizTalk performance optimization guide on finding and eliminating...