Monitoring transactional messages

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Monitoring transactional messages

You can monitor Message Queuing transactions using the Component Services snap-in when the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) is running.

Message Queuing uses the DTC, installed by default with Windows Server 2003 family, for implementing external transactions. You can use the Component Services snap-in to monitor statistics for transactional messages that are sent or received within external transactions and to monitor statistics for all transactions managed by the DTC. For more information, see View external transactions.

When you monitor external transactions, the details pane opened by clicking Transaction Statistics in the console tree of the Component Services snap-in provides useful information on active, committed, and aborted transactions. The DTC must be running to perform external transactional messaging for Message Queuing.

For more information on transactional messaging, see Transactional messaging.

For more information on the Microsoft DTC, see Using Component Services.