Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Service Stoppage Health Monitor

Microsoft.MSDTC.10.0.MicrosoftDistributedTransactionCoordinatorServiceStoppage.Application.StopMSDTC (UnitMonitor)

>Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Service Stoppage Health Monitor

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Service Stoppage

The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator service (MSDTC) coordinates transactions, regardless of failures that may occur during the process, so that the work is committed as a single transaction even if the work spans multiple resource managers on multiple computers.

MSDTC is a Windows service. By default, the service is configured as a manual service rather than as an automatic service. However, most applications demand-start the service as needed. If necessary, the administrator can start or stop the service with the Services administrative tool.

Causes

Need to stop MSDTC to solve a problem with MSDTC.

Resolutions

Stop MSDTC

You may be able to solve a problem with the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator service (MSDTC) by stopping the service.

Administrators

To stop MSDTC:

Click Start, and then click Command Prompt.
net stop msdtc

Element properties:

Target

Microsoft.MSDTC.10.0.Servers

Parent Monitor

System.Health.AvailabilityState

Category

StateCollection

Enabled

True

Alert Generate

True

Alert Severity

MatchMonitorHealth

Alert Priority

Normal

Alert Auto Resolve

True

Monitor Type

Microsoft.Windows.2SingleEventLog2StateMonitorType

Remotable

True

Accessibility

Public

Alert Message

Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator Service Stoppage Alert

RunAs

Default

Source Code:

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  <Category>StateCollection</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="Microsoft.MSDTC.10.0.MicrosoftDistributedTransactionCoordinatorServiceStoppage.Application.StopMSDTC.AlertMessage">

    <AlertOnState>Error</AlertOnState>

    <AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>

    <AlertPriority>Normal</AlertPriority>

    <AlertSeverity>MatchMonitorHealth</AlertSeverity>

    <AlertParameters>

      <AlertParameter1>$Data/Context/EventDescription$</AlertParameter1>

    </AlertParameters>

  </AlertSettings>

  <OperationalStates>

    <OperationalState ID="Success" MonitorTypeStateID="FirstEventRaised" HealthState="Success"/>

    <OperationalState ID="Negative" MonitorTypeStateID="SecondEventRaised" HealthState="Error"/>

  </OperationalStates>

  <Configuration>

    <FirstComputerName>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</FirstComputerName>

    <FirstLogName>Application</FirstLogName>

    <FirstExpression>

      <And>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery>PublisherName</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value>Microsoft-Windows-MSDTC</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery>EventDisplayNumber</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value>4111</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

      </And>

    </FirstExpression>

    <SecondComputerName>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</SecondComputerName>

    <SecondLogName>Application</SecondLogName>

    <SecondExpression>

      <And>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery>PublisherName</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value>Microsoft-Windows-MSDTC</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery>EventDisplayNumber</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value>4157</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

      </And>

    </SecondExpression>

  </Configuration>

</UnitMonitor>