An It-slave in the digital saltmine

Background

At op5 we often run into BizTalk at customer sites as a business critical application. We have done an investigation and come up with a plugin  to monitor BizTalk.

To fully understand this document BizTalk knowledge is necessary.

Solution

op5 has developed a plugin that can monitor the following at a BizTalk server:

• Recieve locations – Verify that they are enabled.
• Send Ports – Verify that they are in Started state
• Group Overview – Catch messages in the message queue that are in state Suspended. The different type of messages are:
  • Dehydrated
  • Suspended
  • Queue

The plugin license is GPLv3 so it is free for any one to use and enhance.

Links

• check_biztalk the plugin that monitors BizTalk
• op5 Monitor Monitor solution based on Nagios
• Nagios free enterprise monitor software

2 Responses to “Monitoring BizTalk with Nagios or op5 Monitor”

1. Tommy Says:
   January 12th, 2012 at 1:26 pm

   Hi,do you have any examples for the syntax?
   I get this error but I can connect to the DB with other checks with the same user and password.
    
   root@monitor:/opt/plugins# ./check_biztalk -U XXXXX -P XXXXXX -H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
   DBI connect('host=10.100.212.91;port=1433','global\tit',…) failed: OpenClient message: LAYER = (0) ORIGIN = (0) SEVERITY = (78) NUMBER = (46)
   Server , database
   Message String: Login incorrect.
    at ./check_biztalk line 52
   BIZTALK CRITICAL – Could not connect to the BizTalk database

2. peter Says:
   January 30th, 2012 at 12:58 pm

   I know we are working on the BizTalk plugin right now. Contact op5 support so they can help you

   Best regards
   Peter Andersson

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