I know that it is possible to find it manual through Workflow Monitor, but we are developing automatic process.
This process must get information of a several workflow runs (start and finish date-time, status)
I found that with SOAP we could get details about workflow run, but only about current/last or with specific workflow_run_id, but I can't find how to get list of previous workflow_run_id for workflow.
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In my application I get rss feed from a website and than compare it with previously saved feed in isolated storage and show the updated feed. I want to update live tile with the updated feed items count, even when the app is not running. Kindly gave me guidelines for this.
You can use a background agent scheduler task. Depending on how resource intensive your call is, you can opt to use a Periodic tasks.
see periodic tasks here
See an example of how to implement it here
you have to note that the earliest a periodic task would run in wp7 is every 30 minutes. it is also subject to available resources on the device, hence it might not always run when you want it too.
I am trying to find out if any http requests are made during installation of an msi package. It appears to me that the process under which the http request is made shares no lineage with the process under which the installer executes.
For example, I install an app that makes http calls during installation. Using SysInternals process monitor, I see the process created when the install kicks off. Using MS NetworkMonitor I can see the process used to generate the http request. Filtering in Process Monitor after the fact shows that there is no relationship between the http process, and the install process.
I am thinking that somehow the OS says to use a new process whenever an http request is made. My most important requirement is that I be able to relate one to the other, in order to definitively say "This app installation called these http resources during install". So I don't have to have a perfect understanding of how it all works under the covers, but, I am at a standstill right now. I've concluded that there is no way to relate the two. Am I wrong?
Okay, let's assume that msiexec.exe invokes a helper and that helper invokes whatever is causing the HTTP traffic. Right after the first helper spawns the child it kills itself. This process is too short-lived to normally see the relationships here.
Enter the "Process Tree" feature of Process Monitor. Keep Process Monitor running without any filters on process events. After you are done you can then press Ctrl+T to see the Process Tree (see below).
The grayed icons tell you the process is not active anymore. Furthermore the last column is the end time of the process. But best of all you can see which process created which other process from this, even for very very short-lived processes.
Mark Russinovich, author of Process Monitor and its predecessors, demonstrated this at TechEd about a month ago.
Although this may not answer the question entirely, it should get you going in the right direction. After all Process Monitor also includes network activity filtering (albeit crude, compared to Network Monitor and Wireshark :)).
btw: the green bar in the above screenshot is the "timeline" where you can see the runtime of the process in relation to other processes. Very nifty.
Are you using a custom action for making web requests? Windows Installer Service Process runs custom actions in a separate instance of MSIEXEC than your main set-up instance.
More information here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2005/03/02/384088.aspx
I have run into a situation where I need to open a newly created quote at the end of a workflow. I have a feeling this is going to require me to create a a very simple custom workflow that uses "window.open", but I would like to avoid this if anyone has a better idea.
So I need to open a newly created quote as soon as it is created in a workflow. Anyone have any good ideas on how to do this?
Workflows are asynchronous; they run on the server (as opposed to the client) and do not run in realtime. eg a workflow that is triggered by creation of a record will run on the server sometime after the record is created (depending on system load etc - it could be a second or two, or could be half an hour later. If you have stopped the CRM Async service on the server, they might well never run.)
Because they run on the server the user has no interaction with them. As a result you can't open a window, as there's no user involved to open a window for...
What you probably want to do is make use of Dialogs (introduced in CRM 2011). You won't be able to use window.open() but as long as you've got a recent update rollup installed on the server you can present the user with a hyperlink to most CRM records.
Setup of Dialogs is much the same as Workflows, and they use the same mechanics under the hood. The difference is that they're syncronous (i.e. run in real-time) and they are client-side. There's some detail on Technet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg334463.aspx
I am wondering if there is a way to monitor these automatically. Right now, in our production/QA/Dev environments - we have bunch of services running that are critical to the application. We also have automatic ETLs running on windows task scheduler at a set time of the day. Currently, I have to log into each server and see if all the services are running fine or not, or check event logs for any errors, or check task scheduler to see if ETLs ran well etc etc... I have to do all the manually... I am wondering if there is a tool out there that will do the monitoring for me and send emails only in case something needs attention (like ETLs fail to run, or service get stopped for whatever reason or errors in event log etc). Thanks for the help.
Paessler PRTG Network Monitor can do all that. we have very good experience with it.
http://www.paessler.com/prtg/features
Nagios is the best tool for monitoring. It checks for the server status as well the defined services in it and if any service goes down or system goes down, sends the mail to specified mail id.
Refer the : http://nagios.org/
Thanks for the above information. I looked at the above options but they have a price.. what I did is an inexpensive way to address my concerns..
For my windows task scheduler jobs that run every night - I installed this tool/service from codeplex that is working great.
http://motash.codeplex.com/documentation#CommentsAnchor
For Windows services - I am just setting the "Recovery" Tab in each service "property" with actions to do when it fails. (like restart, reboot, or run a program which could be an email that will notify)
I built a simple tool (https://cronitor.io) for monitoring periodic/scheduled tasks. The name is a play on "cron" from the unix world, but it is system/task agnostic. All you have to do is make an http request to a unique tracking URL whenever your job runs. If your job doesn't check-in according to the rules you define then it will send you an email/sms message.
It also allows you to track the duration of your jobs by making calls at the beginning and end of your task. This can be really useful for long running jobs since you can be alerted if they start taking too long to run. For example, I once had a backup task that was scheduled every hour. About six months after I set it up it started taking longer than an hour to run!
There is https://eyewitness.io - which is for monitoring server cron tasks, queues and websites. It makes sure each of your cron jobs run when they are supposed to, and alerts you if they failed to be run.
I am having issues were a workflow is stalled because there is an issue with sending an email (send email activity). Typically, this is simply solved by resuming the workflow. I'm wondering if there any way to react to a workflow error, so the user knows they need to go in and resume the workflow.
I'm also wondering about this relative to a workflow that is attempting to assign a task to a user who no longer exists in the CRM or one that has an invalid email address, which I'm assuming would cause errors in workflows as well.
Any other suggestions related to this sort if issue would be welcome.
Thanks!
My point of view, is that monitoring can't be done inside CRM, because all CRM processes could be problematic (what happen if a workflow fails to monitor another workflow?)
The way I already done that, was by adding a SQL query (that check the workflow instance state) to a monitoring tool (such as Nagios with the check_mssql_health) or you can just create a small service that will send emails using SMTP.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of an automated way to do it (you could try attaching a workflow to a workflow instance record, but I'm not sure if that will do it).
I'd probably try to build a utility to query workflow instance records, and then notify users if necessary based on their status.