The customer has a new BI process that collect data and send it to the CRM system.
Sometime there are no data, the source system creates an “empty” file.
The file is not empty because there is the header information, but no data.
Customer asked me to create an alarm, if a file smaller than 10 kb would be found.
I hoped to find this function into the Data Monitoring, but was not.
I think this could be a good function for a future version.

- Idea shared by Nicolas Blatter

To increase the number of SQL servers in BizTalk 360 for monitoring

By Simon Laverdière

We have a process we want to monitor that runs on the last day of each month. There is no way to setup a Process Monitor to monitor this. Currently you must specify the exact day of the month and if that day doesn't exist in the current month than the process is ignored.

We plan to use the Monitoring Dashboard on a wallboard, and would like to use the collapsed view of the Monitoring Dashboard. So that the reserved for tree views of BizTalk servers, SQL Server Instances, and BizTalk Environment will be hidden and we can able to monitor the BizTalk applications alone.

By Jack Lammerts

Is there any easy way of monitoring the status on the BTS Server Log Shipping Restore Databases job on the DR SQL instance so we can raise alerts if it fails?

We have a client who has a cluster on both the production and DR side so 4 SQL servers total.

I suggested we could set up alerting based on an SQL query but was wondering if there’s a simpler way.

By Jason Gill

Hello!

Is it possible to have the same evaluation criteria in BAM monitor as there is in process Monitor?
Ø in process Monitor > = <
Ø in BAM > =

By Støen May-Britt

Is it possible to set up a process monitor alarm that we expect 1 file the 3 working day every month? We have a customer that runs the invoicing process every 3th working day every month. Is this possible in the new function? I have seen the possible to select a date in the month but not working Days.

By Joakim Wadskog.

We understand Email alerts will be sent only when the count is back to zero when number of alerts reaches its limit. In future versions, we hope independent email configuration for all the ports regardless of alert count with other port failures.

Idea shared by Suveera Nagabhyrava.

Can I make a suggestion to make the 10 second timeout variable somewhere. We have some queries which deliver between 9-11 seconds but are at peak performance.

By Joost Easton.

When creating an alarm and configuring the days of the week and the daily times to monitor a resource, is it possible to specify banking holidays? The customer wants to avoid breaking changes when new versions are released, and so may allow exception cases where they receive notifications we shouldn’t.

If we had a receive port on a location that went down and it failed the retries for auto healing, is there a way of enabling another receive location automatically with a different address much in the same way that the Backup transport works inside the send port. I am asking this question so I can have an alternative solution to clustering the receive location.

While mapping a MessageBox data monitoring to an Alarm, SQLDataFilter section does not have a Preview query option. Having a preview option is good in terms of being definitive about functionality of the monitoring. It does depend on availability of the correct data in message box. But considering the fact that these kind of alarms are set reactively than proactively, it will be nice to have Preview option.

Allow to monitor Business Policy State (Published or Deployed). For example, trigger an alert if business policy is not deployed.

When you have BizTalk Enterprise with multiple BizTalk nodes and want to create a platform oriented alert, there are topics like available disk space and event log entries, which you have to create for every node of the BizTalk Group. It would be helpfull if you can create this kind of mappings for all BizTalk nodes at once.