We have been seeing the following 'warnings' in the event log of our BizTalk
machine since upgrading to BTS 2006. They seem to occur
randomly 6 or 8 times per day.
Does anyone know what this means and what needs to be done to clear it up?
we have only one BizTalk server which is running on only one machine.
I am new to BizTalk, so I am unable to find how many tracking host instances running for BizTalk server. Also, can you please let me know that we can configure only one instance for one server/machine?
Source: BAM EventBus Service
Event: 5
Warning Details:
Execute batch error. Exception information: TDDS failed to batch execution
of streams. SQLServer: bizprod, Database: BizTalkDTADb.Cannot insert
duplicate key row in object 'dta_MessageFieldValues' with unique index
'IX_MessageFieldValues'.
The statement has been terminated..
I see you got a partial answer in your MSDN Post
go to BizTalk Admin Console ,check in Platform Settings -> Hosts, in the list of hosts on the right, confirm that only a single Host has the Tracking column marked as Yes.
As to your other question. Yes you can run a Single Host Instance on a Single Server. Although when your server starts to come under a bit of load you may want to consider setting up some more so you can balance the workload better.
Related
We have Websphere Message Broker v8.0.0.3 on Redhat Linux env, and we encounterd the following runtime error message:
BIP2057
Execution Group <insert_1> could not be started: broker name <insert_2>; UUID <insert_3>; label <insert_4>; Pub-Sub server <insert_5> (1=Yes, 0=No).
The situation is that one of the execution groups stopped (without any trace/log about it) and the wmb could not auto start with the BIP2057 error.
the weird part occurs when another EG restarted (unlinked reason to the first problem, because of some applicative errors) and then the first EG "took its place", started successfully, and now the second EG could not start for the same reason.
We have checked for user permissions or the logs without any success in identifying the problem.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Run the following service IBM MQSeries if it's not running already:
C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\WebSphere MQ\bin\amqlsvc.exe
If it gives an
exception of Access Denied, your user must not be having rights to
log on.
Another possible resolution can be by restarting the
DataFlowEngine.exe process.
If none of the above scenarios fulfill the need, restart the system.
I was trying out one functionality of BizTalk from the below link
https://masteringbiztalkserver.wordpress.com/category/pipelines/
Till now I never had to go to event log to check for any entries.
Now when I am trying to get a custom message logged in event Log, from BizTalk application, I dont see any relevent entry from BizTalk other than 2 entries when I restart the BizTalk Host instance.
From my research I had written down the below code in Expression shape in the application Orchestration:
xmlMessage = InputMessage;
stringMessage = xmlMessage.OuterXml;
System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry("BizTalk Server", stringMessage);
Here the InputMessage is a message defined in orchestration for sample Schema that I have created.
My application got build and deployed properly and it is also processing the messages properly. Its just that I don't see any log in event viewer for my code or for the suspended messages when I intentionally stop the send port.
The discussionfrom below link also didnt help
No eventlogs from BizTalk
I have BizTalk Server configured on my Windows 7 Ultimate machine. I am the administrator of the machine.
A few points on this:
BizTalk sever will not log an event for a suspended message, that's why you dont' see one.
You should never use the BizTalk Server Event Source since the BizTalk product owns that
You can very easily create you own custom Event Source using PowerShell.
To create a custom Event Source, use something like:
new-eventlog -logname "Application" -Source "MyApplicationThatLogs"
To write with this Event Source, use something like:
System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry("MyApplicationThatLogs", "Some Error Occured!", System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntryType.Error, 100, 0);
Rather than using System.Diagnostics.EventLog for debugging purposes I would recommend that you use the BizTalk CAT Instrumentation Framework.
For a pipeline
TraceManager.PipelineComponent.TraceInfo(stringMessage);
For a Orchestration
Microsoft.BizTalk.CAT.BestPractices.Framework.Instrumentation.TraceManager.WorkflowComponent.TraceInfo(stringMessage);
It allows for real-time tracing when needed, "you can enable tracing on a production server with only a negligible impact on performance (when tracing to a file)."
After moving most of our BT-Applications from BizTalk 2009 to BizTalk 2010 environment, we began the work to remove old applications and unused host. In this process we ended up with a zombie host instance.
This has resulted in that the bts_CleanupDeadProcesses startet to fail with error “Executed as user: RH\sqladmin. Could not find stored procedure 'dbo.int_ProcessCleanup_ProcessLabusHost'. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 2812). The step failed.”
After looking at the CleanupDeatProcess process, I found the zombie host instance found in the BTMsgBox.ProcessHeartBeats table, with dtNextHeartbeatTime set to the time when the host was removed.
(I'm assuming that the Host Instance Processes don't exist in your services any longer, and that the SQL Agent job fails)
From looking at the source of the [dbo].[bts_CleanupDeadProcesses] job, it loops through the dbo.ProcessHeartbeats table with a cursor (btsProcessCurse, lol) looking for 'dead' hearbeats.
Each process instance has its own cleanup sproc int_ProcessCleanup_[HostName] and a sproc for the heartbeat watchdog to call, viz bts_ProcessHeartbeat_[HostName] (although FWR the SPROC calls it #ApplicationName), filtered by WHERE (s.dtNextHeartbeatTime < #dtCurrentTime).
It is thus tempting to just delete the record for your deleted / zombie host (or, if you aren't that brave, to simply update the Next dtNextHeartbeatTime on the heartbeat record for your dead host instance to sometime next century). Either way, the SQL agent job should skip the dead instances.
An alternative could be to try and re-create the Host and Instances with the same name through the Admin Console, just to delete them (properly) again. This might however cause additional problems as BizTalk won't be able to create the 2 SPROCs above because of the undeleted objects.
However, I wouldn't obviously do this on your prod environment until you've confirmed this works with a trial run first.
It looks like someone else got stuck with a similar situation here
And there is also a good dive into the details of how the heartbeat mechanism works by XiaoDong Zhu here
Have you tried BTSTerminator? That works for one-off cleanups.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2846
I'm not quite sure what's going on, but several issues are occurring on our website supported by Tridion 2011 SP1 that I can only think is being caused by the broker db
1, Loading the website results in the error with the Ambient Data Module:
[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
Tridion.ContentDelivery.AmbientData.HttpModule.OnRequestStart(Object sender, EventArgs e) +292
System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +79
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +269
2, Audience manager profile synchronisation between the broker and subscription management databases is failing, receiving the following errors from the logs:
Error occurred while fetching a synchronization batch from the presentation system with url: [URL] Profilesync.aspx. Message class java.sql.SQLException No Data Access Object for AudienceManagerProfile java.sql.SQLException: No Data Access Object for AudienceManagerProfile
3, Publishing the website publication repeatedly fails at the transport stage, returning:
Transport failed: Could not transport tcm_0-10689-66560.Content.zip using HTTPS
I know these sound like several issues happening at once, but my site was running fine up until another web publication was added into blueprinting. Since then we've been getting these errors, and like to think it's all related to an issue with the broker db.
Anyone come across something like this?
UPDATE: Should also add the fact that dynamic linking has stopped working as well, which strengthens my belief there is an issue either connecting to or with the broker database
That's full of loaded questions, oh.. boy.. let's take one by one.
Did you check your license file is valid and did not expire recently.
I would rule the license file out first. If that's not the case then see below.
First, Adding publication blueprinting publication does not have any impact on CDA site. So, I would totally rule this out.
Second, Your site up and running until publication added.. This can't be happening. There should be some configurations changed/added on your web site. Sometimes, the configurations updated but the APPPool did not recycled so you don't see the impact. At later time, when the AppPool restarted/recycled you will notice the errors and might have the impression that the site is breaking all of sudden.
Did you double check your configs and dlls?
Are you able to connect to your database directly with broker user
id/password?
Any firewall changes happened recently, try connecting to DB from
CDA Server
For #3, I had this same problem... is it possible that adding the new publication caused the package size to increase from less than 30mb to more than 30mb? If so, check IIS Request Filtering >> Edit Feature Settings and look at Maximum allowed content length. This defaults to 30MB and for us increasing this size to something larger than our package size solved the Transport Failed error (since IIS would just reject our transports due to the size being greater than 30mb).
About issue #1: Could it be you have the Tridion.ContentDelivery.AmbientData.HttpModule configured in the Web.config, but are lacking the java installation? Do you have a cd_ambient_conf.xml in your config folder? And a cd_ambient.jar in the lib?
About issue # 2: you seem to be missing the audience manager DAOs (Data Access Objects). Do you have the following in your cd_storage_conf.xml?
<StorageBindings>
<Bundle src="AudienceManagerDAOBundle.xml"/>
</StorageBindings>
About issue # 3: do you have more information in the cd_transport.log or windows event viewer?
I agree with Ram that the added publication couldn't have caused this. It looks like your CD installation was changed somehow. Did you do an upgrade or something?
I've got a new production computer and installed my BizTalk app on there. The problem is that I don't see any messages in the event log, nor from my BizTalk app or BizTalk Server itself. The only message that appears in the event log is the following:
The following BizTalk host instance has initialized successfully.
BizTalk host name: BizTalkServerApplication
Windows service name: BTSSvc$BizTalkServerApplication
The source of that message is BizTalk Server. And no messages at all, even no logs about errors which I suppose already took place.
Just a quick thought incase you are still having problems.
I tried to write to the event log with a source type that didnt already exist and my BizTalk Host user account didn’t have permissions to create a new source type. This meant I never saw the entry in the event log.
E.g. (from example #Bill Osuch)
System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry("MyBiztalkApp", "oh i did something");
Make sure either the MyBiztalkApp source exists or that your user has permissions on the event log to create it.
Also, if you have a lot of messages going through BizTalk you will probably want to implement your own logging so your event log doesn’t fill up. We used Log4Net for our implementation and a database to store messages.
If you're not getting any errors (suspended messages) as the messages process, you're not going to see anything in the app log. You could try adding an Expression shape to your orchestration and manually writing out some debug info:
System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry("event type", "whatever...");
Does your application actually use the BiztalkServerApplication host? Check in the Biztalk Administration Console if all the host instances are indeed running. Is your application fully started? Messages are "put on hold" if your receive location is disabled for example.
To check this functionality, write to event log after every operation or shape in BizTalk orchestration.
Scenario-
Suppose you have to assigned a value to xpath of node in a map after transformation so in message assignment shape after you assign some value, you can write eventlog to admin console.
Ex. Suppose we have already initialized - "orderType" as "PO" in our expression shape and now we have to assign the value of "orderType" to the xpath of a node in our map then-
Shape- MessageAssignment(Under constructMessage Shape after transformation of map)
xpath(msgGetOrderReq, "/[local-name()='CustomerOrders' and namespace-uri()='http://example.com/EAI/IEmployee/v1.0']/[local-name()='ordertype' and namespace-uri()='http://example.com/EAI/IEmployee/v1.0']") = ordertype;
Next to this we want to print this information on the admin console so we need to write:-
System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry("msgGetOrderReq", ordertype, msgGetOrderReq);
Build the project, Deploy and GAC it. Restart the host instance. Run the orchestration, process something and now you will be able to see the logs in admin console.
Regards
Mayank