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MS BizTalk monitoring, Part Deux

By Haruhiko Davis posted Oct 21, 2014 12:20 PM

  

When we moved to this new platform, those of us creating content were asked if we wanted to copy anything before the migration.

Of course, I was too busy with customers so I didn't respond in time.

 

Luckily, I do have all of the related materials used to create the original post, so I will make it available for your view pleasure.

 

At the time of the previous posting, this FieldPack was tested against version 2009 and 2010. I will continue to look 2013 to see what I can do to support that (version).

 

Pretty much all performance monitoring on the Windows platform is done via Performance Monitor, aka PerfMon. This makes getting metrics into APM very easy as we can leverage the functionality of .NET PerfMonCollectorAgent.

 

Following the directions below, you should have all of the pertinent areas of BizTalk monitored, as recommended by Microsoft.

 

Installation

  1. Download and install the .NET Agent, or just the PerfMonCollector Agent, following the instructions in the agent guide.
  2. Edit <agent_home>\wily\IntroscopeAgent.profile
    1. Locate introscope.agent.perfmon.metric.filterPattern
    2. Replace the filterPattern with the one provided in attachment, biztalk.txt. You may want to also include "|VM Memory|*" and "|VM Processor|*|*" if your server is running on VMware.
    3. Optionally, you can update the AppPool monitoring for the .NET Agent to include the processes for BizTalk
    4. Save the profile.
  3. Restart "CA APM PerfMonCollectorAgent.exe" using the Services Management Console (services.msc), or via command prompt (sc query).
  4. Validate that the agent is collecting all of expected metrics from BizTalk and other providers, such as MS SQL Server.

 

As always, check to your agent's metric count to ensure you're not exceeding the metric clamp By default, it is set to 50K.

 

I have also attached the MSDN guide pages for BizTalk. The guides describe how you should be monitoring your BizTalk environment.

 

Warranty

There is none! As with all FieldPacks, they are provided AS-IS to the community to help facilitate monitoring of their infrastructure.

If you feel this is something you'd like to have support for, please create an Idea so that your fellow members can vote the feature.

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