BizTalk Server: Checking Tracked Data Using Admin Console

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

Introduction
How to Access Group Hub Page
Checking Tracked Service Events
- What Information is displayed in result
- What more can be checked
Checking Tracked Message Events
- What Information is displayed in result
- What more can be checked
Customizing check
Author
See Also

Introduction

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 configure configuration) or else four sections depending upon the purpose and container of predefined queries.

How to Access Group Hub Page

Click Start button
All Programs
Select Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010
Select BizTalk Server Administration
Click on BizTalk Group

Checking Tracked Service Events

To check tracked service events, click on "Tracked service instances" on the group hub page. The result of this is combination all the services instance 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 result

The result has following information:

Service Name
Host Name
Service Class
State
Start Time
End Time
Duration
Error Code
Error Description
Assembly Name
Assembly Version
Deployment Time

What more can be checked

More details can be seen by right clicking on any of the result 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 result

The result has following information:

Event Type
Service Name
Adapter
URI
Schema Name
Port Name
Timestamp
Part Count
Size
Decryption Certificate
Signature
Party Name
Service Class

What more can be checked

More details can be seen by right clicking on any of the result 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, 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 location where you have saved your query.