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Dehydrated Orchestration Instance(s) Category

The Nodinite BizTalk Server Monitoring Agent empowers you to monitor BizTalk Server Dehydrated Orchestration Instances across all BizTalk Applications with Orchestrations in your group.

  • Effortlessly list Dehydrated Orchestration Instances in BizTalk as Nodinite Resources (Resource name: 'Dehydrated Orchestration Instance(s)').
  • Nodinite mirrors the Application concept, providing a 1:1 mapping with each BizTalk Application.
  • Dehydrated Orchestration Instances are grouped by the Category Dehydrated Orchestration Instance(s).
    • This category appears only for BizTalk Applications with Orchestrations.
      Dehydrated Orchestration Instance(s)
      List of BizTalk Applications and their Dehydrated Orchestration Instance(s) in Monitoring.

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Key Features for Monitoring BizTalk Server Dehydrated Orchestration Instances

  • Remote Actions – Instantly execute remote actions to manage Dehydrated Orchestration Instance(s).
  • State Evaluation – Automatically monitor and evaluate Dehydrated Orchestration Instance(s), triggering Warnings or Errors if thresholds are exceeded or instances are too old.

What is evaluated for BizTalk Dehydrated Orchestration Instances?

Nodinite evaluates the state of each Dehydrated Orchestration Instance, providing actionable insights and clear status:

State Status Description Actions
Unavailable Resource not available Evaluation of 'BizTalk Dehydrated Orchestration Instances' is not possible due to network or security issues Review prerequisites
Error Error threshold is breached More Dehydrated Orchestration Instances exist than allowed by the Error threshold Edit thresholds
Manage Dehydrated Instances

Suspend all
Warning Warning threshold is breached More Dehydrated Orchestration Instances exist than allowed by the Warning threshold Edit thresholds
Manage Dehydrated Instances

Suspend all
OK Within user-defined thresholds Number of Dehydrated Orchestration Instances is within user-defined thresholds Edit thresholds
Manage Dehydrated Instances

Suspend all

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The evaluated state can be reconfigured using the Expected State feature on every Resource within Nodinite.


Remote Actions

Unlock powerful Remote Actions for the Dehydrated Orchestration Instance(s) Category:

Dehydrated Instance Actions Menu
List of available Remote Actions.

Manage Dehydrated Orchestration Instances

To manage the Dehydrated Orchestration Instances threshold for the selected BizTalk Server Application, click the Action button and select the Manage Dehydrated Orchestration Instances menu item:
Manage Dehydrated Orchestration Instances Action Button Menu Item
Action button menu with the 'Manage Dehydrated Orchestration Instances' menu item.

The modal displays details for current Dehydrated Orchestration Instances:
List of Dehydrated Orchestration Instances
List of Dehydrated Orchestration Instances.

Action Menu Items
Actions available for selected Dehydrated Orchestration Instances.

Apply these methods to single or multiple instances using the Actions and With selected buttons:

Action Menu Items
Actions available for selected Dehydrated Orchestration Instances.

Suspend

Easily Suspend Dehydrated Orchestration Instances as a Nodinite end-user.
Suspend Dehydrated Orchestration Instance menu item

Click the Suspend menu item in the Actions button for single instances, or check multiple rows and use the 'With selected' dropdown:
Confirm intent to Suspend instance
Confirm intent to Suspend the instance.

Terminate

Terminate Dehydrated Orchestration Instances with confidence.
Terminate Dehydrated Orchestration Instance menu item

Click the Terminate menu item in the Actions button for single instances, or check multiple rows and use the 'With selected' dropdown:
Confirm intent to Terminate instance
Confirm intent to Terminate the instance.

Edit thresholds

To manage the Dehydrated Orchestration Instance(s) threshold for the selected BizTalk Server Application, press the Action button and select the Edit thresholds menu item:
Action Button Edit Thresholds
Action button menu with the Edit thresholds option.

The modal allows you to manage alert thresholds for Dehydrated Orchestration Instances:
Edit Thresholds Modal

Time-based evaluation

Time-based evaluation is always active. If you do not want time-based evaluation, set long enough thresholds.

State Name Data Type Description
Warning TimeSpan Timespan 00:13:37 (13 minutes 37 seconds) If the time of Dehydrated Orchestration Instance(s) exceeds the specified time, a Warning alert is raised. Format: days.hours:minutes:seconds (e.g., 7.12:30:59)
Error TimeSpan Timespan 01:10:00 (1 hour 10 minutes) If the time of Dehydrated Orchestration Instance(s) exceeds the specified time, an Error alert is raised. Format: days.hours:minutes:seconds (e.g., 7.12:30:59)

Count-based evaluation

Provide a positive integer for the number of allowed Dehydrated Orchestration Instances.

State Name Data Type Description
Warning Count integer If the number of Dehydrated Orchestration Instances exceeds the specified value, a Warning alert is raised
Error Count integer If the number of Dehydrated Orchestration Instances exceeds the specified value, an Error alert is raised

Suspend all

Suspend all Active Instances by clicking the 'Suspend all' menu item in the Actions button.

Suspend All Action Button menu item
The Suspend All Action Button menu item.

You must confirm the intent to Suspend all Active Instances.
Confirm intent
Example of modal to confirm intent to Suspend all Active Instances.


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