You work as a Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 architect for Domain.com. The development of Integration application is your responsibility at Domain.com. You are currently working on the design of a BizTalk application that uses a standardized message structure.
You want to be able to alert a system administrator if there is an error in processing messages. You thus need to decide on the appropriate action to take to accomplish this task with the minimum amount of development effort.
What should you do?
A.
An SMTP Send Port subscribing to the suspended message queue should be set up.
B.
An orchestration that subscribes to the suspended message queue must be created.
C.
You should set up Health and Activity Tracking queries for the various failures you wish to monitor and have the Administrators run them in HAT periodically.
D.
Instruct the Administrators to check the system health indicators in the BizTalk Administration Console from time to time.
Explanation:
Starting in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 you are allowed to set up subscriptions to the suspended message queue. This can either be in the form of an orchestration or a send port with a subscription to the suspended message queue.
For purposes of the above question, the send port offers the easiest option and as it is an SMTP port, it can be configured to send all the needed information directly to the administrator(s) email account(s). This option is thus the solution if you want to achieve the task with the least amount of development effort.Incorrect Answers:
B: This option represents the most thorough solution available. But this is not the solution that represents the least
amount of development effort. Designing, building, deploying, and maintaining a separate orchestration to handle failover would indeed involve a fair amount of extra work albeit it more thorough.
C: You can set up HAT queries and institute such a process, but this solution would involve a significant amount of extra work for both the architect to craft the appropriate queries and also for the administrator(s) to have to periodically run the queries. Thus this option is not the solution.
D: This solution will not be effective since the system health indicators in the BizTalk Administration Console do not provide the specific level of detail needed. Furthermore, it would still require the administrator(s) to query the system from time to time and possibly you reminding them to do so.