Monitoring BizTalk Solutions – The Tools Part 1
In one of my previous post I talked a little bit about monitoring BizTalk solutions in the enterprise. I now want to delve into some of the offerings around monitoring BizTalk Solutions. I like to discuss three available tools available today, at least I will delve into each one in separate: · BizMon Tool ; · FRENDS Helium ; · Minotaur . I will start with BizMon Tool made by Richard Hallgren. To set it up I downloaded the tool after filling out a form. I deploy this tool on one of my VPC’s and in this case a fresh one with BizTalk 2009, SQL Server 2008, VS 2008 SP1, SQL Server 2008. BizMon supports installation on either directly on BizTalk machine or on a stand-alone server without previous BizTalk installation. It will require some basic Windows component as well as some BizTalk administration components. System requirements Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 IIS 6 or IIS 7 .NET Framework 3.5 When installing on a standalone-server you need to install the follo