June BizTalk Guru - Ron Phillips (El Bo) brings us "Monitoring and Automatically Starting Host Instances Via A Scheduled Task"

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It's time for our first June TechNet Guru winner!

Ron Phillips (El Bo) is our BizTalk TechNet Guru for June! See the TechNet Guru Contributions for June 2013.

 

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About El Bo: Native of the San Francisco Bay Area, attended U.C. Berkeley (History major, I learned to code in high school). Once long ago I was a dBase/Clipper developer, and was the lead developer of a commercial code generator (Smart Templates). Then a Visual Basic/SQL developer, and then starting in 2000 a BizTalk developer (yes, I really did use BizTalk 2000).

 

Here is El Bo's winning article:

BizTalk: Monitoring and Automatically Starting Host Instances Via A Scheduled Task

 

Here are all the June BizTalk winners:

Guru Award BizTalk Technical Guru - June 2013

Gold Award Winner

 

 Ron Phillips BizTalk: Monitoring and Automatically Starting Host Instances Via A Scheduled Task Mandi Ohlinger: "This is a very helpful script that users can implement now. " Peter Laker: "Excellent article, loads of detail and nice format." Ed Price: "Great introduction! I love how this incrementally takes you through the process."

Silver Award Winner

 

 Abhijit Mahato Implementation of Routing slip pattern using ESB Toolkit 2.1 and BizTalk Server Mandi Ohlinger: "Great example of using ESB! The screen shots are a nice addition." Ed Price: "Great formatting with the different sections! The images help visually explain everything." Peter Laker: "Nice tip with lots of detail"

Bronze Award Winner

 

 Mohit Gupta Complex FlatFile Conversion using Biztalk schema and Map Peter Laker: "Details, code and images make this a great article" Ed Price: "The code blocks are very helpful!" Mandi Ohlinger: "Great FlatFile example. We need more of these."

Thanks to Ron, Abhijit, and Mohit! We had a great collection of articles for our first month for the BizTalk Technical Guru competition! And congrats to Ron! We'll feature your article in a variety of ways (including this blog post)! The four BizTalk contributions are here.

 

 

And here's an excerpt from the article:

 

Building the Sample

To start, you need to be able to query the BizTalk management database. WMI gives us an easy hook for this:

SetobjWMIService = GetObject(``"winmgmts://./root/MicrosoftBizTalkServer"``)

Now you can look around in the management database with SQL queries - well, really simple ones. Finding out what will and won't work requires some trial and error.  For example, our final script lets you provide a list of host names to check (rather than all of the hosts on the machine - there may be some where you want to sometimes take a host instance offline temporarily). So you would think we'd query the database for a specific host name. 

But that WHERE clause on the query just doesn't work, so we grab all of them and iterate through the list:

SetcolHostInstances = objWMIService.ExecQuery(``"Select * from MSBTS_HostInstance Where HostType=1 And IsDisabled=False "``)

That gives us a collection of host instances. In our script, we iterate through that to find a particular one.

 

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Read the rest here:

BizTalk: Monitoring and Automatically Starting Host Instances Via A Scheduled Task

 

Thanks to Ron for your great contribution to the TechNet Guru contest! You can read about all the June winners here: TechNet Guru Award Winners - June 2013

 

Also, for the July Guru competition, see TechNet Guru Contributions for July 2013.

 

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