Overview

 

Feb 1 2008

 

Ever wanted to know what your provider was really doing under the covers? Ever tried to trace the route taken by a particular event? Ever tried to figure out when a process restarted? BizTalk RFID Monitor [rfidmon] is a troubleshooting tool aimed at developers and system administrators to help figure out mysteries like the ones mentioned above. Loosely modeled after the ubiquitous filemon, regmon and procmon, it attempts to provide detailed information about the ongoing activity within BizTalk RFID.

 

Overview.. 1

Pre-requisites: 1

Platforms "supported". 1

Feature Summary. 1

Provider Activity. 1

Device Activity. 2

RFID Process Activity. 2

WMI Events. 2

Event Processing Flows. 2

Load / Save of rfidmon trace files. 2

Filtering. 2

 

 

Pre-requisites:

o    BizTalk RFID RTM that shipped as part of BizTalk Server 2006 R2

Platforms "supported"

o    Windows Server 2003

o    Windows Vista

o    Windows XP SP2

 

Feature Summary

 

Provider Activity

Per-call tracing of providers, including metadata and device discovery calls.  

 

Device Activity

Device creation, open, close, commands, responses, events, and management commands.

 

RFID Process Activity

Process definition, event handler definition, binding changes.

 

WMI Events

All WMI events raised by BizTalk RFID.

 

Event Processing Flows

Individual event procesing flows, including the particular event handler methods, and termination conditions.

 

Load / Save of rfidmon trace files

Ability to save rfidmon traces to files, and view them later for post-mortem debugging

 

Filtering

Include / exclude events based on a number of criteria. Helps you narrow down the particular window of events that are of interest.