BizMon installation and configuration guide IIS 6

This guide is applicable when installing BizMon on a server running IIS 6. If you are planning to use a server running IIS 7 use this guide.

It also assumes that you already have the server set up with the “BizTalk Administration tools”. If you are installing BizMon on a existing BizTalk server these tools are already installed.

If you are however planning to use a server without any BizTalk components previously installed to run BizMon you need to install the BizTalk Administration Tools first. Learn more about this in the BizMon pre-requisite section.

1. Run the installer

Download and run the installer on the server you are planning top run BizMon from. You can find more information on what the installer does here.

 

 

 

 

2. Create or configure a BizMon user

BizMon needs to run under a user with some special privileges. The user BizMon runs needs to be a member of

• The Administrators group of the local server BizMon runs on.
• The IIS_WPG group on the local server BizMon runs on.
• The BizTalk Server Administrators group used by the BizTalk server BizMon should monitor.

 

 

Some BizMon customer uses the same users that they use to run the BizTalk services under, and some customer setup a separate BizMon users and adds that user to the required groups.

3. Configure IIS

To enable BizMon Web to run under the user we setup, we need to create and configure an Application Pool. This is managed under the Identity tab on the Application Pool properties in IIS.

Next we need to change the BizMon Virtual Directory (that was created by the BizMon installer) to use the Application Pool we just configured.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Configure the BizMon Subscription NT Service

The BizMon Subscription service that is responsible for sending out alerts and report also needs to use the same user we just configured. The BizMon installer installed the service so all we need is to configure it to use the correct user account.

 

 

 

5.  Setting up the database connections

The BizMon installer created a BizMon folder on the start menu. In this folder there is a Service connection shortcut and a Web connection shortcut.

Use these to open the configuration document to set the connection string to the “BizTalkMgmt” database.

If the “BizTalkMgmt” database is not on the local machine the data source needs to be set to the server where the BizTalkMgmt can be found.

<connectionStrings>
     <add
          name="BizTalkMgmtDbConnectionString"
          connectionString="Data Source=.;Initial Catalog=BizTalkMgmtDb;Integrated Security=True"
          providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>

Remember to change this setting for both the “Web connection” and the “Service connection”!

6. SMTP settings etc

In the start menu there is also a Web settings shortcut and a Service settings shortcut. In the Service settings configuration document one needs to define the SMTP configuration that should be used to send alerts and reports.

In the Web settings one needs to configure the correct path to the BM.exe and the BttDeploy.exe. These are by default configured for the default installation path of BizTalk 2006.

You can find more information about the different configuration possibilities in the BizMon configuration documentation.

7. Troubleshoot the installation

Start your browser and point it at “http://localhost/bizmon” directly on the server you have installed it on. If there are any exceptions these will be displayed directly in the browser (as you are browsing locally).

BizMon also logs all exception (both on the Subscription service and the BizMon web to the application log). Each of the components also logs to a log file that is located under folders in the installation path chosen in the installer.

And as always – do not hesitate to contact our support group if you have any question on the installer or the product in general.