eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by InterChangeXmitTest

The InterChangXmitTest measures the performance of the messaging service while transmitting interchanges to the BizTalk server 2000. The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Encode_rate This measure indicates the number of interchanges being encoded per second by the runtime process. Intchanges/Sec A value of –1 for this measure implies that the BizTalk Messaging Service or Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) or XLANG Schedule Restart Service may not be running.

Incase of an unusually low value, verify the status of the interchange in the suspended queue using the BizTalk server administration. If the status corresponding to an interchange is Encoding, then it implies that the BizTalk server could not encode the interchange. This problem may be solved by resubmitting the interchange to the BizTalk server.

Encrypt_rate This measure indicates the number of interchanges being encrypted per second by the runtime process. Intchanges/Sec A value of –1 for this measure implies that the BizTalk Messaging Service or Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) or XLANG Schedule Restart Service may not be running.

Incase of an unusually low value, verify the status of the interchange in the suspended queue using the BizTalk  server administration. If the status corresponding to the interchange is Encrypting then it signifies that the BizTalk server could not encrypt this interchange. Also, verify the expiration of the certificate in the Certificate Microsoft Management Console snap-in.

Serialize_rate This measure indicates the number of interchanges being serialized per second by the BizTalk runtime process. Intchanges/Sec A value of –1 for this measure implies that the BizTalk Messaging Service or Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) or XLANG Schedule Restart Service may not be running.

Incase of an unusually low value, verify the status of the interchange in the suspended queue. If the status corresponding to the interchange is Serializing then it implies that the BizTalk server could not convert the interchange to its native format.

Resubmitting the interchange can solve this problem.

Xmit_rate This measure indicates the number of interchanges being transmitted per second by the BizTalk Messaging Service. Intchanges/Sec A high value over a period may indicate that transmission took a long time to attain completion.

A value of –1 for this measure implies that the BizTalk Messaging Service or Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) or XLANG Schedule Restart Service may not be running.

If the value of this measure is unusually low, verify the transport address in the channel. Correct the problem in the channel and resubmit the interchange.

Alternatively, the BizTalk server might have taken a long time to transmit the interchange. Verify the transport mechanism used.

Another reason could be that the BizTalk administrator might have moved the interchange to the suspended queue, resubmitted the interchange from the suspended queue.

Alternatively, the computer on which the BizTalk server could be running out of memory, restart the server and resubmit all the interchanges in the suspended queue.