Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) can provide real value to an organisation but is often not implemented as part of a BizTalk solution. This session will demonstrate how to develop and deploy a BAM activity and tracking profile. The focus will then move onto development of a custom web portal to provide a consolidated view of data from BAM, Exceptions and Payload Archive databases.

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2. Create a modern(ish) BAM
portal in (roughly) one hour!
Rob Bowman
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www.biztalkers.com

4. Ever heard of this
Thing they call
“The Force”?

5. Single technology I’ve found adds most value
given the effort required?

6. Reasons BAM doesn’t get used
• Activity monitoring not seen as
essential for Go-Live of a project
• It’s a new skill to learn – sometimes
developers turn to a technology
they already have experience of
such as Log4Net
• The stock BAM Portal doesn’t give
the functionality expected

7. Why Developers Should Implement BAM
With the right portal in place, the business
users can find answers themselves rather
than having to ask the development or
support teams.
Q: Why hasn’t the warehouse received the
Purchase Order
A: Take a look on the BAM Portal

8. So why build a custom BAM portal?
• The stock portal provides view over BAM Primary
Import db only
• It doesn’t show data from ESB Exceptions database
• It doesn’t provide a view of message payload
• Additional functionality
• A BAM Portal is a convenient site to add additional
functionality such as:
• task management – tickets raised for exceptions etc.
• UI for maintaining cross reference data

9. A Consolidated View
Rcv Pipeline
MsgArchive
Source
Data Source
Data
Map Rcv
Pipeline
Msg Body
BAM
Timestamp & Key Data from Msg Body
MsgBox
Canonical Data
Exception Db
Send
Pipeline
Canonical Data
Send Pipeline
Map
Msg Body
Timestamp
& Key Data
Source System
Target System
Target
Data
Target
Data
BAM
Portal
View
The custom
BAM Portal
provides a
consolidated
view of a
message from
source to target
system

10. Aim of the Custom Portal
• View summary of messages received and sent
• Ability to drill-down to message payload
• Link to the Exceptions database of the ESB Toolkit
• Easy AD authentication
• Potential for addition of useful admin type functionality such as:
• Resubmit a previously received message into BizTalk
• Trigger BizTalk process e.g. rather than wait for scheduled task adapter
• Provide a friendly UI over cross reference database
• Basic task management workflow functionality e.g. tasks created on ESB
exception

11. Demo – Create the BAM Activity and Profile
• Demo Existing “Simple” file type
• Create new BAM Activity definition
• Create new BAM Tracking Profile

12. How the Views Access / Display the Data

13. Example Razor View
When Using MVC
Pattern
Notice:ViewModel
returned here

15. Example Razor View When Using MVVM Pattern
Notice:ViewModel not
returned here

16. Demo Adding New Process (Votes) to be
Monitored
• Would expect more code reuse (generics) but for purpose of demo –
LOTS of COPY & PASTE!

17. Acknowledgments
• BizTalk Message Archive Component
• Randy Aldrich Pualo
• http://biztalkarchiving.codeplex.com/
• KO Grid
• Eric M. Barnard, Tim Sweet, Jonathan Ricaurte, Alan Souza
• https://github.com/Knockout-Contrib/KoGrid
• Datatellblog.wordpress.com
• Ross?
• Great advice on using KoGrid