This article intends to show how to see tracked data using the Admin Console, resulting from this forum question.

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Introduction

The BizTalk Server Administration Console provides a User Interface to the end user to view, analyze, and troubleshoot the tracked data. The Group Hub page that is categorized in six sections (if EDI is selected during installation and configuration) or else four sections depending upon the purpose and container of predefined queries.

Note: BizTalkDTADb Tracking database stores tracked data that has already been processed through the MessageBox database. SQL Agent job called DTA Purge and Archive (BizTalkDTADb) help in controlling the size of the database and to do so it performs the task of purging the BizTalkDTADb database. By default, this job runs every minute and purges all completed instances older than some user configured time.

How to Access Group Hub Page

  1. Click Start button
  2. All Programs
  3. Select Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010
  4. Select BizTalk Server Administration
  5. Click on BizTalk Group
Note: By default, group-level tracking is enabled. 

If Group-level tracking is not enabled then no data will be tracked thus can't be checked.We are able to check the tracked data because of job called  TrackedMessages_Copy_BizTalkMsgBoxDb which periodically copies message bodies from MessageBox to tracking database (BizTalkDTADb) and it is this job which makes message bodies available to WMI and tracking queries.

Checking Tracked Service Events

To check tracked service events, click on "Tracked service instances" on the group hub page. The result of this is the combination of all the service instances which were successful and terminated.

To be able to see the successful events, click on "Completed instances".

Figure 1. Completed service instances result.
To be able to see the terminated events, click on "Terminated instances".

Figure 2. Terminated service instances result.

What Information is displayed in the result

The result has following information:

  1. Service Name
  2. Host Name
  3. Service Class
  4. State 
  5. Start Time
  6. End Time
  7. Duration
  8. Error Code
  9. Error Description
  10. Assembly Name
  11. Assembly Version
  12. Deployment Time

What more can be checked

More details can be seen by right-clicking on any of the results which you want and then selecting from following options:

  • Message flow
  • Show Tracked Message Events
  • Show Live Service Instance
  • Add/Remove Columns

Figure 3. Other available options.

Checking Tracked Message Events

To check the tracked message events, click on "Tracked Message Events" in the group hub page. The combination of all the message events, which were successful and failed will be shown.

Figure 4.Tracked message events result.

To be able to see the failed message events, click on "Transmission failure events". 

What Information is displayed in the result

The result has following information:

  1. Event Type
  2. Service Name
  3. Adapter
  4. URI
  5. Schema Name
  6. Port Name
  7. Timestamp
  8. Part Count
  9. Size
  10. Decryption Certificate
  11. Signature
  12. Party Name
  13. Service Class

What more can be checked

More details can be seen by right-clicking on any of the results which you want and then selecting from following options:

  • Message details
  • Message flow
  • Show Tracked Service Instances
  • Show Live Message
  • Save to File
  • Add/Remove Columns

Figure 5. More available options.

Customizing check 

It is possible to customize check with the help of the New Query tab, which has a GUI based Query Editor that supports building custom queries.

Figure 6. Drop-down list showing available options for Value column

As can be seen in the figure,  there is a list to choose from for Value column, the same provision is there to choose Operator. After selecting the operator and the required field, click Run Query button and you should be able to see results in Query Results tab.

If you have written query and want to use then click the Open Query button and browse to the location where you have saved your query.

Note: Although tracking is very useful, it should be used wisely as it contributes to increasing the size of the tracking database (BizTalkDTADb) which may have/has a performance impact.

Author

Maheshkumar S Tiwari|User Page
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