Hy,

I use the Service Bus for Windows Server and want to check the following on the service bus.

1.

I want to know to total number of messages of a queue or a topic which have been processed since the beginning. So I need the number of all messages which are now on the queue and the other which already finished. I only found the message count which shows only the current messages in a queue:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/microsoft.servicebus.messaging.queuedescription.messagecount.aspx

2.

Or is it possible to get the total number of messages which have been processed on the service bus  on all queues and topics?

Can anybody help me?

Best regards

I'm unfortunately experiencing very low throughput with on-premise version of Service Bus periodically.

Normally sending a message takes about 10 ms or less, however quite frequently it can take 20 seconds or more to send a message. This continues for 2 - 3 minutes and after a while the messages either timeout or there is a spike where Service Bus manages to process all messages. This can be seen by viewing the Incomming messages performance counter below.

The system is running Service Bus 1.1 with SQL Server 2012 on a separate machine. The hardware is Intel Q6600 2.40GHz, 4GB ram and 7200rpm disks so it is normally OK for most testing purposes.

I have isolated some code from my application that reproduces the issue.

static void Main(string[] args)
{
   var connectionString = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Microsoft.ServiceBus.ConnectionString"];
   var namespaceManager = NamespaceManager.CreateFromConnectionString(connectionString);

   namespaceManager.DeleteTopic("TestTopic");
   namespaceManager.CreateTopic("TestTopic");
   namespaceManager.CreateSubscription("TestTopic", "TestSubScription");

   var topicClient = TopicClient.CreateFromConnectionString(connectionString, "TestTopic");

   var msgCounter = 0;
   var cts = new CancellationTokenSource();

   Task.Run(() =>
   {
       while (!cts.IsCancellationRequested)
       {
           Task.Run(() =>
           {
               try
               {
                   Interlocked.Increment(ref msgCounter);

                   var msg = new BrokeredMessage("Body");
                   msg.Properties["MyIntProperty"] = 123;
                   msg.Properties["MyStringProperty"] = "Hello SB";

                   var sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
                   topicClient.Send(msg);
                   sw.Stop();

                   Trace.WriteLine(string.Format("Message {0} send duration {1}", msgCounter, sw.ElapsedMilliseconds));
               }
               catch (Exception e)
               {
                   Trace.WriteLine("Exception: " + e);
               }
           }, cts.Token);

           Thread.Sleep(20);
       }
   }, cts.Token);

   Console.ReadLine();   
   cts.Cancel();
}

As can be seen this is a very low message frequency of about 30 messages / sec so I don't understand how Service Bus can struggle with this low throughput. Event when I increased the delay to 50 ms the issue still occurred.

Hoping someone can shed some light on this, or provide insights on how to continue troubleshooting.

Hy,

is it possible to receive the messages from the service bus without deleting them?
I found the peek() function in the docs but I can't use it with the Windows Service Bus 1.0 API. I tried the following:

        //Creates a new copy of SubscriptionClient with specified name and topic path.
        SubscriptionClient subscriptionClient = messagingFactory.CreateSubscriptionClient(topicName, subscriptionName);

But there is only a receive function available which always deletes the messages. In the Service Bus Explorer there is a Option called "Peek all messages" which didn't deletes the messages. Does anybody know how he implements that?

I found a peek function in the docs but I can't use it:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/windowsazure/microsoft.servicebus.messaging.subscriptionclient.aspx

Best regards

Help,  We are trying to use windows authentication with service bus 1.1

but it seems only the manage users is authorized to manage/send/listen.

what is the proper way to grant users/groups authorization to use the bus ?

Leonid Ganeline [BizTalk MVP] <a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20258.biztalk-integration-development-architecture.aspx">BizTalk Development Architecture</a>

After generating a .p12 file from my keychain (following the recommended steps here: ), I upload it to the notification hub configuration and get the following error message:

SubCode=40000. Failed to validate credentials with APNS. Error is A call to SSPI failed, see inner exception...TrackingId:4d464cd9-06e7-84af-a3b3-193de4fd619c_M0_G25,TimeStamp:3/25/2014 9:16:28 PM

The odd thing is that I successfully uploaded this certificate last week and had my apple push notifications working! Then as I tried to configure the google notifications in the azure portal, it started complaining about the Apple cert (even though it hadn't changed!)

So two questions:

1) Any ideas what is going on here? 

2) Any pointers on where to look up the inner exception details?

Hi,

I am currently setting up Service Bus 1.1 on Windows Server 2012, with 3 nodes, using Azure VM instances. I have installed Workflow Manager Refresh 1.1 as well.

I am not using any domain accounts for this. I don't have problems with a single node instance, however, when it 3 nodes, it doesn't work as expected.

This is my sb client configuration : 

Endpoint=sb://lohp-2-wfm1/ServiceBusDefaultNamespace,sb://lohp-2-wfm3/ServiceBusDefaultNamespace,sb://lohp-2-wfm2/ServiceBusDefaultNamespace;StsEndpoint=https://lohp-2-wfm1:9355/ServiceBusDefaultNamespace,https://lohp-2-wfm3:9355/ServiceBusDefaultNamespace,https://lohp-2-wfm2:9355/ServiceBusDefaultNamespace;RuntimePort=9354;ManagementPort=9355

All this 3 nodes are in the same cloud service.

Using this configuration, if 1 node is down, the workflow isn't able to publish or run.

Is there something wrong with my SB configuration esp. the endpoints? I have tried setting the farm-dns to point to the cloud service DNS as well, it doesn't work.

We have a 3 node, on premise, service bus 1.0 cluster and need to load balance client requests across the 3 gateway services.

I understand the gateway service will load balance requests across the cluster, but don't want all requests going through the 1 gateway service.

We have set up a hardware load balanced VIP for the 3 gateway services, but when I use SB explorer to connect to the cluster, it connects ok but trying to view a queue I get the following exception.

Exception: Method not found: 'Microsoft.ServiceBus.Messaging.MessageCountDetails Microsoft.ServiceBus.Messaging.QueueDescription.get_MessageCountDetails()'.

I know running Get-SBClientConfiguration gives me a connection string with all 3 servers in, but as I will be connecting to the cluster using a WCF client, I'm not sure if this is supported ?

Can anyone help ?

Hi,

I am trying to complete this tutorial:

Service Bus Brokered Messaging .NET Tutorial

This is a simple tutorial, where you:

- manually create a Service Bus Namespace using the Azure portal ,
- programatically create a queue,
- programatically send to the queue,
- programatically read from the queue

I have copied the final code that is run inside my own console application from:
Shows Complete Code to run

And tried to run, The Queue is successfully created on the Azure portal with the below code:

     NamespaceManager namespaceClient = new NamespaceManager(ServiceBusEnvironment.CreateServiceUri("sb", ServiceNamespace, string.Empty), credentials);
     namespaceClient.CreateQueue("IssueTrackingQueue");

But when trying to Send to the Queue using this abridged code (complete code can be seen in link above):

   QueueClient myQueueClient = factory.CreateQueueClient("IssueTrackingQueue");
            // Send messages
            Console.WriteLine("Now sending messages to the Queue.");
            for (int count = 0; count < 6; count++)
            {
                var issue = MessageList[count];
                issue.Label = issue.Properties["IssueTitle"].ToString();
                myQueueClient.Send(issue);
                Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Message sent: {0}, {1}", issue.Label, issue.MessageId));
            }

 myQueueClient.Send(issue);
Error as below:
Message=The X.509 certificate CN=servicebus.windows.net is not in the trusted people store. The X.509 certificate CN=servicebus.windows.net chain building failed. The certificate that was used has a trust chain that cannot be verified. Replace the certificate or change the certificateValidationMode. A certificate chain could not be built to a trusted root authority.

I have seen references to this error using the On-Premise Windows Service Bus, but not with the Azure Service Bus, as this example uses.

I am using the Azure SDK 2.2
It takes approx 10 - 20 seconds before get error, 

The full error is as below:

Hello , 

I am an iOS developer and i am using windowsazuremessaging library to get connected to the notification hub 

It works fine , until today 

It suddenly stopped receiving notifications and by testing and a sum of trials and errors , it appeared that i should send a tag when registering the device , and use this tag again when sending from the backend .

Problem is : i was used not to send tag and i've received notifications before and i already have a lot of apps on the appstore that depend on this . 

May i ask what's going on with sending and receiving without tags ? 

Thanks in advance 

Hy,

I want to use the ReceiveBatch-Methode (IEnumerable(Int64)) in C#. It needs a IEnumerable(Int64 -> long). I need this function because in the GetMessageNumber(topicName, subscriptionName) function I use the intern counter from the service Bus wihich returns a long value. The other receive function only offer a int. I tried this function but I always get an MessageNotFoundException was unhadeld by user code.

> Failed to lock at least a specified message. The message is not
> vorhanden..TrackingId:a2e6b0f0-fd3d-4594-935d-936ff7b3210c_GLBHPC0474_BLBHPC0474,TimeStamp:28.03.2014
> 13:41:57

http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/jj657801.aspx

            IEnumerable<long> messageNumber = new long[]
            {
                GetMessageNumber(topicName, subscriptionName)
            };

            IEnumerable<BrokeredMessage> messages = null;

                try
                {
                    //Receives a message using the InternalReceiver.
                    messages = subscriptionClient.ReceiveBatch(messageNumber);

But the I tried it with the int function ReceiveBatch-Methode (Int32) and it worked. The problem is that I need the function with the long value and why they use an IEnumerable to use the receive function with the 64 bit value? How I can accomplish to use the function with the 64 bit value correct?

            IEnumerable<BrokeredMessage> messages = null;

            long messageNumber = GetMessageNumber(topicName, subscriptionName);

                try
                {
                    //Receives a message using the InternalReceiver.
                    messages = subscriptionClient.ReceiveBatch(messageNumber);

Hi,

I'm evaluating Service Bus Relay and I cannot find any examples on how to create a client to Connect with Service Bus Relay using other than .NET Framework

It would be very helpful if somebody could provide me with an example written in Javascript, PHP, Java or any other language, but with no dependencies on .NET Framework.

Thanks

I use Notification Hubs to send Notifications to IPhone and Windows Store app. The IPhone is working perfectly fine, but there is some issue with Windows Store when sending the notification.

Template:

String WindowsTemplateStr = @"<toast><visual><binding template=""ToastImageAndText03""><image id=""1"" src=""https://"" alt=""Customer""/><text id=""1"">$(headlineText)</text><text id=""2"">$(bodyText)</text></binding></visual></toast>";

I use this code to register:

registration = await hubClient.CreateWindowsTemplateRegistrationAsync(userDeviceInformation.ChannelUri, Templates.WindowsNotificationTemplate,
                                new string[] 
                                        { 
                                            userDeviceInformation.InstallationId,
                                            userDeviceInformation.UserName 
                                        });

The registration goes through fine and I can see the tags properly associated using "Service Bus Explorer".

When I try to send the Notification this is what I do:

                        notification.Add("src", ImageUrl);

                    notification.Add("headlineText", String.Format("Message from {0}", fullName));
                    notification.Add("bodyText", String.Format("Message {0}", message));

When the notification is sent, nothing is received on the device; and I see the registration is also being deleted.

I can't seem to find what is causing this behavior.

Any ideas ?

Hello,

I am using na Azure Queue to send/receive messages.

In order to receive them, I am using the approach suggested on the Azure tutorials (very simple).

My code keeps waiting for messages on the queue with QueueClient.Receive() method. In case queue is empty, this method does not return immediately and I would like to know if there is an internal timeout or configuration for this time keeps longer.

Thank you,

Igor

.NET Software developer for industrial internet and automation system.

Hi,

On my project, we use Service Bus For Windows Server (Version 1.1). We use it on a local network.The minimal configuration is : one client uses the service bus and the core server uses also the Service Bus.

For the moment, we export the certificates on the clients manualy.  We follow the procedure written on this page :http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj192993(v=azure.10).aspx

Now, we are devloping the setup program. And we want to automatize this procedure.
The installation of the Service "ServiceBus" is ok thanks to the scripts but now we have to generate the certificates from the server machine, copy them on the client machine and deploy these certificates.

My first question is : do we really need to have these certificats ? Because the application will work only on a local network.
If yes, my second question is : do you know a procedure to deploy automatically these certificats ?

Maybe, the first good thing should be to use our own certifcates and we should integrate in the setup program. But if it is possible, we should use these certifcats in the installation scripts of the "ServiceBus".

Thanks.

Hi, 

I´m developing a Client that reads a message from the Windows Service Bus, which was sent using .NET. The client is developed using Java and as far as I Know it creates the session, but when it gets to creates the consumers throws a JMSException which only tells me the followin message: ampq:not-allowed

Any clue? 

Best Regards

Luis Diego Rojas. http://icomparable.blogspot.com

I am trying to implement some java clients using AMQP. However I am running into issues actually sending a message to a queue/topic. It appears we can authenticate just fine but get a message "Peer did not create remote endpoint for link" when trying to send a message.

Since we have plenty of .NET clients that are in use and sending and receiving messages successfully, I decided to use create a .NET test client connecting using AMQP. Again I can authenticate but the instance I try to send a message to a queue, I get the following error -

"The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure.".

When I switch to using the standard protocol, everything works fine. I can send and receive messages from a queue. So This leads me to believe we have an SSL issue in conjunction with AMQP. I'm not sure what the issue could be. We are using a wildcard SSL that was issued by Network Solutions.

I tried looking for settings for AMQP around certificates but didn't find anything. I tried importing the certificate on the client but that doesn't solve the issue and should be needed since it's issued by a trusted publisher.

I'm at a lost where to look next. The searching I've done on AMQP doesn't come up with anyone else having this issue.

We've been using service bus 1.0/1.1 for the past year and have plenty of .NET clients that run just fine using the native soap protocol so I don't believe we have Service Bus setup issue.

We're adding a feature to our web application which will push items to a queue located in an on-premises install of Windows Service Bus. Sending items to the queue has been pretty straight forward, and now we're looking at options for processing those queue items. The receiver only needs to process the items as they arrive to the queue, no need to push responses back to the web app. The caveat is that our server admins asked if we could explore alternatives to our typical solutions of Windows Services and Scheduled Tasks. Ideally, they'd like to have something that could be deployed to our web services boxes. 

I started looking into the NetMessagingBinding for WCF, but haven't had luck getting that to work with Service Bus for Windows 1.1 just yet. Are there other best practices or commonly used solutions out there that we could be looking at? We're considering installing the Azure Pack suite, but I noticed it doesn't support Worker Roles (which appear to the ideal solution).

Thanks!

Hy,

I have a question to the Service Bus for Windows Server SDK. It is possible to access the Service Bus via the two ways

1. Service Bus for Windows Server SDK

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/us-en/library/jj542419.aspx

2. REST

Is the Service Bus for Windows Server SDK also in the background a REST implementation so the SDK is only a wrapper and the code behind is also access the service bus with the help of REST?

Best regards

I'm getting this error when I'm trying to send notification to Windows 8 app.

This site has information on what the Outcome means: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/dn530751.aspx but no way on how to actually fix this issue.

Any ideas what can be wrong here ?