healthMonitoring

[russell.lane]

I'm trying to set up health monitoring for web services and a web
application. To start very simply, I want to turn on event logging for web
requests. To do this I added the following markup to the <system.web>
section of the web.config file in the service and application directories:

<healthMonitoring enabled="true" heartbeatInterval="0">
<rules>
<add name="Log Web Requests" provider="EventLogProvider" eventName="Request
Processing Events" minInstances="1" maxLimit="Infinite" custom="" />
</rules>
</healthMonitoring>

The provider and event names shown are from the web.config found in the .Net
2.0 distribution
(\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\confi g\web.config).

..Net 2.0 is installed, everything was built with VS '05, I'm accessing
everything through IE 6.0.

I'm not seeing any events show up in the log. What am I missing?

Thanks -

R

[Josh Twist]

Do you not need to actually raise some webevents? I have to admit that
I've not yet played with this new feature, but I did find these
resources:

http://weblogs.asp.net/Dr.NETjes/arc...09/279101.aspx
http://www.asp.net/QuickStart/aspnet...webevents.aspx

Good Luck and let us know how you get on.

Josh
http://www.thejoyofcode.com/

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Thanks for Josh's inputs.

Hi russell,

As Josh has mentioned, when configuring the ASP.NET 2.0 health monitoring,
we specify both the events we want to monitor and how the events should be
logged or reported. These are done through the <eventMappings> and <rules>
elements. .e.g:

<healthMonitoring>
<eventMappings>
<add name="My Critical Event" type="WALib.MyCriticalEvent,WALib"/>
</eventMappings>
<rules>
<add name="Critical Event Rule" eventName="My Critical Event"
provider="EventLogProvider"/>
</rules>
</healthMonitoring>

After the configuration is ok, what we need to do is raise those certain
events in proper place in our web application's code. For example, in our
webservice's webmethod:

[WebMethod]
public string HelloWorld() {

MyCriticalEvent testEvent = new MyCriticalEvent(
"Critical Operation Performed",
this,
WebEventCodes.WebExtendedBase + 1);
testEvent.Raise();

return "Hello World";
}
#How To: Use Health Monitoring in ASP.NET 2.0
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...1.asp?frame=tr
ue#paght000011_step1

Hope also helps.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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[russell.lane]

In the immortal words of Homer Simpson -- "D'oh!".

Somehow I came away from reading the docs with the impression that event
types defined in System.Web.Management would be raised automatically. My
error!

I created a very simple custom event, raised it in my code, and it shows up
as expected.

The health monitoring stuff is very nice, I'm looking forward to integrating
it into our apps.

Thanks!

R
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Thanks for Josh's inputs.

Hi russell,

As Josh has mentioned, when configuring the ASP.NET 2.0 health monitoring,
we specify both the events we want to monitor and how the events should be
logged or reported. These are done through the <eventMappings> and <rules>
elements. .e.g:

<healthMonitoring>
<eventMappings>
<add name="My Critical Event" type="WALib.MyCriticalEvent,WALib"/>
</eventMappings>
<rules>
<add name="Critical Event Rule" eventName="My Critical Event"
provider="EventLogProvider"/>
</rules>
</healthMonitoring>

After the configuration is ok, what we need to do is raise those certain
events in proper place in our web application's code. For example, in our
webservice's webmethod:

[WebMethod]
public string HelloWorld() {

MyCriticalEvent testEvent = new MyCriticalEvent(
"Critical Operation Performed",
this,
WebEventCodes.WebExtendedBase + 1);
testEvent.Raise();

return "Hello World";
}
#How To: Use Health Monitoring in ASP.NET 2.0
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...1.asp?frame=tr
ue#paght000011_step1

Hope also helps.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

Get Secure! www.microsoft.com/security
(This posting is provided "AS IS", with no warranties, and confers no
rights.)

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Thanks for your followup Russell,

Glad that you've got it working. Enjoy ASP.NET 2.0 :)

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

Get Secure! www.microsoft.com/security
(This posting is provided "AS IS", with no warranties, and confers no
rights.)