eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by BTBAMTest

Information workers need flexibility in looking at and evaluating business processes. A purchasing manager might need to see how many POs are approved and denied each day, for example, while a sales manager might want an hourly update on what products are being ordered. Meeting these diverse needs requires a general framework for tracking what's going on with a particular business process. This is exactly what the Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) component in Microsoft BizTalk Server provides.

The BAM component allows monitoring of events and data produced by a BizTalk application. This information is made accessible using SOAP-callable Web services, and it can be accessed in several different ways, as follows:

  • Through Microsoft Excel or other desktop clients, such as a custom dashboard application.
  • Using a BAM portal, a component in BizTalk Server that enables business users to examine and configure BAM information.
  • Through SQL Server Notification Services, allowing BAM information to be delivered as notifications.

The BAM Interceptor is an object that lets you instrument your application to capture data of interest.

This test monitors the BAM interceptors, and swiftly spots the failure of BAM events.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
TotalFailedBAMEvents Indicates the total number of failed BAM events that occured during data flush. Number