The BizTalk Operations web service

The BizTalk Operations web service exposes to external systems information about our ESB environment, the artifacts deployed on it, and the messages flowing through our ESB.

This could be useful to provide information to our own operations and management systems.

It exposes the following operations:

• Applications: This method is without parameters. It returns the name and description of all the installed BizTalk applications as a collection of BTApplication objects.

• ApplicationStatus: This method has one parameter, the application name. It returns information about the specified BizTalk application as a BTSysStatus instance. This includes orchestrations, send ports, receive locations, and host details.

• GetLiveMessageBody: This method takes two parameters, message ID and instance ID. It returns the body of that message from the live environment as a BTMsgBody instance.

• GetMessageInstances: This method takes one parameter, the message type It returns all matching...