Creating Instances of the BAM Event Bus Service

The BAM Event Bus Service runs inside a BizTalk application host. You can use the default host to host the BAM Event Bus Service, or you can create a new host. If a host hosts the BAM Event Bus service, any new instances you create for that host also hosts the service.

For information about the default host, see Hosts.

For information about creating hosts, see How to Create a New Host.

For information about creating host instances, see How to Add a Host Instance.

For information about creating and configuring hosts and host instances, see Managing BizTalk Hosts and Host Instances.

To create the host that hosts the BAM Event Bus Service

  1. Click Start, point to All Programs, click MicrosoftBizTalk Server, and then click BizTalk Server Administration.

  2. In the BizTalk Administration Console window, expand the BizTalk Server Administration node, expand the Biztalk Group node and expand the Platform Settings node, right-click the Hosts node, select New, and then click Host.

  3. In the Host Properties dialog box, in the Name box, type a descriptive name for the host.

  4. On the General tab, select the Allow Host Tracking check box.

    A new child node appears under the Hosts node with the name of the new host.

  5. In the Windows group box, type the name of the Windows group to assign this host, and then click OK.

    A new child node appears under the Hosts node with the name of the new host.

To create a new host instance of the host

  1. Right-click the Host Instance node, select New, and then click Host Instance.

  2. Select a server where the host instance will run, and then click OK.

To add hosting tracking to the host

  1. Right-click the host you want to reconfigure, and then click Properties .

  2. On the General tab, select Allow Host Tracking, and then click OK.

  3. Restart all instances of that host.

To remove hosting tracking from the host

  1. Right-click the host from which you want to remove host tracking, and then click Properties.

  2. Clear the Allow Host tracking check box, and then click OK.

  3. Restart instances of that host.

See Also

Managing the BAM Event Bus Service
BAM Security Recommendations
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)