We are in the process of setting up servicecontrol for the 1st time, to monitor our endpoints (starting on DEV, and then the other environments will follow)
We have endpoints using MSMQ, some of these run on the same server, and some on different servers where each server has got 1 error queue for the endpoints it runs
We also are building new endpoints that will use Azure Servicebus as transport as these are running in azure and we don’t want to use MSMQ there
We have these questions:
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How should we setup servicecontrol and serviceinsight/servicepulse in such an environment?
Do we need to install 1 servicecontrol instance per transport type?
Or can we just install 1 instance to ingest all messages from different transports?
Because we see that selecting a Transport is part of the installation choices when adding an instance -
How should we name the instance(s) and paths to install to?
We don’t want the servicecontrol files and data on the OS drive, so a D drive is available for installation
Assuming that we need to install an instance per transport type, I figure adding the transport type somewhere in the instance name and paths is wise
If 1 instance will do, we stick with the default paths but use the D drive instead -
Is it possible to pass different paths to the servicecontrol management program?
We do not see any options to do that, so the installation of new instances is on the OS drive
After adding the instance there’s an option to change locations and such, but that feels a bit stupid.
Alternatively we could try to use the powershell module instead, but we just want to be sure we don’t oversee something in the UI
B.t.w. we downloaded the latest version of all tools yesterday