Verktyg för övervakning och monitorering BizMon BizMon Integration Monitoring är en specialutvecklad lösning för monitorering av integrationslösningar i BizTalk. BizMon tar till vara många års erfarenheter kring underhållning och möjliggör icke BizTalk specialister att ha full kontroll och översikt över integrationslösningar inom BizTalk. MTM MTM är utvecklat av vår partner Communicate, i samarbete med Microsoft, för att effektivisera och reducera kostnaderna för drift och övervakning av integrationsplattformar. Med hjälp av Web Services gränssnitt kan MTM nu ge funktionalitet till andra integrationsplattformar.

Message and event logging in BizTalk Server The Challenge Microsoft BizTalk users all face the same challenge: Often messages fail or disappear or are hard to find. And because there is no simple out-of-the-box solution in a BizTalk/.NET environment, experienced software engineers and BizTalk developers are forced to track and trace or resend messages. This is time consuming and very costly manual work, as it depends upon highly skilled and therefore, highly paid labor. Many customers try to solve the problem by developing their own message monitoring application based on well known Microsoft tools such as Health Activity Tracking (HAT), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and ESB Toolkit. This “self help” approach has clear disadvantages: First of all the monitoring application will be limited in terms of features and functionality. Secondly, internal resources must be allocated for support, maintenance and development. This may turn out to be a costly venture.

Message and event logging in BizTalk Server Messages/Data DTA – Tracking HAT Hat Plugin BizTalk Admin Console - Group Hub BAM BAM Definitions Extra Ports for Logging Custom Log Services MTM – Message Tracking Log4Net, DLL, 3rd party,Other… Events Group Hub Suspended instances MOM/SCOM Events, not data Performance counters/PAL Statistics Event Viewer WMI

DTA Tracking Prereqs SQL Agent enabled Tracking on Ports Dedicated Tracking Host (on all nodes, not clustered!) Large/HUGE database Purge Only time, no easy way to remove explicit messagetypes Archive Even larger databases No Direct GUI Messages are compressed, not easy to index and search Datetime searches in CET format HAT or HAT plugin to view tracked messages Only before and/or after port logging not between the stages in the Pipeline Search for Data (Elements/Attributes) on promoted fields only

HAT Plugin (BTS2006 only) http://www.codeplex.com/btsviewerhatplugin Features FREE! Iterate through tracked instances\messages. View all tracked messages for a particular service instance. View xml\text content and context of tracked message. Search and hi-light xml content using XPath query. Ability to save all tracked messages and message contexts to file. 1.1 version is much more stable!!! Easy to install

MTM Initiative Custom Solution by Communicate A/S, developed together with Microsoft Norway. Features and Functionality • A web interface gives you a complete log of all messages and an immediate overview of message status, failed messages and messages with missing receipts. • Quick and easy message retrieval based on free text search, user-defined search criteria and predefined fields such as sender, recipient, date, type of message and document ID. • Full overview of message flow combined with reporting functionality and processing statistics will identify bottlenecks and problem areas. • Failed messages and messages with missing receipts can easily be resent from MTM. • The web interface opens for decentralized message handling by non-IT personnel, vendors, customers or partner companies. • The time used for troubleshooting and manual intervention is drastically reduced, as is cost.

MTM – Search capabilities Authenticatad access to messages (messagetypes) PipeLine component based logging* Message search on All formats (EDI, Flatfile, XML) DocumentId (Some Default property of MessageType) Sender (FromParty) Receiver (ToParty) MessageTypes… Datetime (Period) Xpath Free text Promoted values PipeLine settings Status User Defined * Other methods and services are available for Orchestrations and non BizTalk applications

Purge selected messagetypes individually Provides option to store messagetypes with different expiration dates [Archiving database in next version] Data is stored in plain text format in SQL Server database Provides options for building custom reports using Microsoft Reporting Services or other techniques Statistics Processing Statistics Throughput Export to Excel/PDF

MTM - Authentication Users are MTM users (SQL Tables) Access rights Read Events (not data) Read Data Resume/Terminate suspended messages Resend messages Access rights are set on MessageTypes and/or Sender/Receiver

MTM – PipeLine Properties Property All Stages DataType Default Value Description (The property text as seen by BizTalk Admins) Enabled bool True Enable/Disable log functionality. LogMessageBody Enable/Disable the logging of the message payload (BodyParts).. LogText String (255) Blank The log text to store for this component. MessageTypeId int Log the Message as MessageTypeId with the assigned number value. [null/0/1=Default],[>1=User Defined] FromParty String  (150) Name of sender or XPath expression. Leave blank to read Sender from MessageType definition if MessageType is known.  ToParty String(150) Name of receiver or XPath expression. Leave blank to read Sender from MessageType definition if MessageType is known.   Comment String  Blank  Document area for this component. SystemName String SystemName is a design time property used to build statistics and semantically group related messages from different flows and BizTalk Applications.

Non BizTalk Applications Solution & Design Non BizTalk Applications MTM BizTalk Config file BT Service N MTM Windows Service MTM Web MTM Web Services MTM Admin Services MTM Windows Service BizTalk Service MSMQ MTM Common PipeLine Components MTM Common Databases BizMon Configs MTM Config file MTM Mgmt MsgBox

Key features Next version (Q4 2009) Improved authentication features Purge job setup from GUI Archiving Journaling on logon attempts, read, resend, etc Performance, memory, error reporting SystemName, Status, Comments Custom presentation of Logged messages (XSLT -> HTML)

Customer References using MTM Det Norske Veritas Sykehuspartner Helse Sør-Øst RHF Helse Midt Norge RHF Helse Vest RHF Aker Wilhelmsen IT DFDS Iggesund Sandvik Holmen Paper Norske Skogindustrier ASA Stora Enso AB Iggesund Paperboard AB Holmen Paper AB M-real OY Kitron ASA + other customers in evaluation phase

Intelligent Business Solutions AB     __________________________________________________________ Michael Olsson| Solutions Architect | Intelligent Business Solutions AB +46(0)707-909 441 | Våxnäsgatan 10 | 653 40 | Karlstad | Sweden michael.olsson@ibiz-solutions.se | www.ibiz-solutions.se __________________________________________________________ Richard Hallgren| Integrations Expert | Intelligent Business Solutions AB +46(0)706- 012 682 | Våxnäsgatan 10 | 653 40 | Karlstad | Sweden richard.hallgren@ibiz-solutions.se | www.ibiz-solutions.se

Intelligent Business Solutions AB Vi på iBiz Solutions AB erbjuder konsulttjänster, projektledning och utbildningar inom IT-branschen och är specialiserade på integration med Microsoft BizTalk Server. Våra konsulter är drivna och självgående med Sverige, och hela Norden, som arbetsområde och arbetar främst för stora tillverkande industrier och företag inom stål- och pappersbranschen. Vi har kunskapen och erfarenheten att hjälpa dig leverera maximal nytta av din investering i BizTalk. Vi är experter på Microsofts produkter och vår kunskap och vårt engagemang ger er en säker, trygg och pålitlig partner. Vår företagskultur kännetecknas av samarbete och viljan att förstå uppdragsgivarens verksamhet. Målet är att genom utbildning och integration hjälpa våra klienter att göra bättre affärer inom respektive område.

Integration med BizTalk Server Vi jobbar med integration och är experter på att leverera kvalitetssäkrade system med Microsoft BizTalk Server. Våra lösningar kan hittas på stora företag i Sverige och Norge. iBiz konsulter är vana att arbeta med interna kanoniska format och använder exempelvis PapiNet/EDI/X12/Oagis m.fl. i de externa gränssnitten. Vi arbetar med olika tekniker för att säkra våra leveranser såsom automatiska tester och versionshantering. Konsulttjänster Vi erbjuder IT tjänster inom all Microsoft utveckling. Vi är specialister på integration med Microsoft BizTalk Server. Våra konsulter har många års erfarenhet och är naturligtvis certifierade.