Windows 2008 Server Performance Counters missing

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Hi,

I have 2 Windows 2008 Servers Ent where some of the core Perfmon counters
have gone "missing". Plenty of other counters are there (.NET, Exch2007,
etc). But some of the main ones like Processor and PhysicalDisk are not
listed anymore. And if you try and enable them via DOS, I get a msg stating
they are already enabled.

I have tried using Windows 2003 directions regarding repairing corrupt
Performance Counters (kb 300956) - but no luck.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!
 
Re: Windows 2008 Server Performance Counters missing

Hello John,

If i check them on my 2008 servers they are all listed and viewable. If i
open "Reliability and Performance monitor", Monitoring tools, Performance
Monitor, choose the green PLUS i can view all including the ones you specify.
What account are you using?

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> Hi,
>
> I have 2 Windows 2008 Servers Ent where some of the core Perfmon
> counters have gone "missing". Plenty of other counters are there
> (.NET, Exch2007, etc). But some of the main ones like Processor and
> PhysicalDisk are not listed anymore. And if you try and enable them
> via DOS, I get a msg stating they are already enabled.
>
> I have tried using Windows 2003 directions regarding repairing corrupt
> Performance Counters (kb 300956) - but no luck.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
 
Re: Windows 2008 Server Performance Counters missing

Hi,

Yes - I see them on my other 2008 servers as well. And they were there at
first on my 2 problem servers also. The core counters "disappeared" after I
tried to open a PerfLog file that was generated by Jetstress 2007. And now
that they have "disappeared" on these 2 servers, I cannot seem to figure a
way to get them back.

I am logged into both servers with domain admin account - which is also part
of local admin on both servers.

Thanks!

"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

> Hello John,
>
> If i check them on my 2008 servers they are all listed and viewable. If i
> open "Reliability and Performance monitor", Monitoring tools, Performance
> Monitor, choose the green PLUS i can view all including the ones you specify.
> What account are you using?
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
> no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have 2 Windows 2008 Servers Ent where some of the core Perfmon
> > counters have gone "missing". Plenty of other counters are there
> > (.NET, Exch2007, etc). But some of the main ones like Processor and
> > PhysicalDisk are not listed anymore. And if you try and enable them
> > via DOS, I get a msg stating they are already enabled.
> >
> > I have tried using Windows 2003 directions regarding repairing corrupt
> > Performance Counters (kb 300956) - but no luck.
> >
> > Anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
>
>
 
Re: Windows 2008 Server Performance Counters missing

Hello John,

If you check the Performance monitors properties, Source tab, is it set to
current usage or log files?

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights.
** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
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> Hi,
>
> Yes - I see them on my other 2008 servers as well. And they were
> there at first on my 2 problem servers also. The core counters
> "disappeared" after I tried to open a PerfLog file that was generated
> by Jetstress 2007. And now that they have "disappeared" on these 2
> servers, I cannot seem to figure a way to get them back.
>
> I am logged into both servers with domain admin account - which is
> also part of local admin on both servers.
>
> Thanks!
>
> "Meinolf Weber" wrote:
>
>> Hello John,
>>
>> If i check them on my 2008 servers they are all listed and viewable.
>> If i open "Reliability and Performance monitor", Monitoring tools,
>> Performance Monitor, choose the green PLUS i can view all including
>> the ones you specify. What account are you using?
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Meinolf Weber
>> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
>> confers
>> no rights.
>> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
>> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have 2 Windows 2008 Servers Ent where some of the core Perfmon
>>> counters have gone "missing". Plenty of other counters are there
>>> (.NET, Exch2007, etc). But some of the main ones like Processor and
>>> PhysicalDisk are not listed anymore. And if you try and enable them
>>> via DOS, I get a msg stating they are already enabled.
>>>
>>> I have tried using Windows 2003 directions regarding repairing
>>> corrupt Performance Counters (kb 300956) - but no luck.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
 
Re: Windows 2008 Server Performance Counters missing

It is set to current usage.

Even if I try to create a new Data Collector set, it will not list any of
the core perf counters.

It looks like the perf counters list are corrupted - and need to be rebuilt.
There is a kb on this for Win2003 (kb 300956) - but the same method does not
seem to work for Win2008.

Thanks!

"Meinolf Weber" wrote:

> Hello John,
>
> If you check the Performance monitors properties, Source tab, is it set to
> current usage or log files?
>
> Best regards
>
> Meinolf Weber
> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
> no rights.
> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yes - I see them on my other 2008 servers as well. And they were
> > there at first on my 2 problem servers also. The core counters
> > "disappeared" after I tried to open a PerfLog file that was generated
> > by Jetstress 2007. And now that they have "disappeared" on these 2
> > servers, I cannot seem to figure a way to get them back.
> >
> > I am logged into both servers with domain admin account - which is
> > also part of local admin on both servers.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > "Meinolf Weber" wrote:
> >
> >> Hello John,
> >>
> >> If i check them on my 2008 servers they are all listed and viewable.
> >> If i open "Reliability and Performance monitor", Monitoring tools,
> >> Performance Monitor, choose the green PLUS i can view all including
> >> the ones you specify. What account are you using?
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >>
> >> Meinolf Weber
> >> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> >> confers
> >> no rights.
> >> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
> >> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I have 2 Windows 2008 Servers Ent where some of the core Perfmon
> >>> counters have gone "missing". Plenty of other counters are there
> >>> (.NET, Exch2007, etc). But some of the main ones like Processor and
> >>> PhysicalDisk are not listed anymore. And if you try and enable them
> >>> via DOS, I get a msg stating they are already enabled.
> >>>
> >>> I have tried using Windows 2003 directions regarding repairing
> >>> corrupt Performance Counters (kb 300956) - but no luck.
> >>>
> >>> Anyone have any suggestions?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
>
>
>
 
Re: Windows 2008 Server Performance Counters missing

Hello John,

So did you run the command:

lodctr /R

to rebuild all counters? What error message do you get?

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights.
** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm


> It is set to current usage.
>
> Even if I try to create a new Data Collector set, it will not list any
> of the core perf counters.
>
> It looks like the perf counters list are corrupted - and need to be
> rebuilt.
> There is a kb on this for Win2003 (kb 300956) - but the same method
> does not
> seem to work for Win2008.
> Thanks!
>
> "Meinolf Weber" wrote:
>
>> Hello John,
>>
>> If you check the Performance monitors properties, Source tab, is it
>> set to current usage or log files?
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Meinolf Weber
>> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
>> confers
>> no rights.
>> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
>> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Yes - I see them on my other 2008 servers as well. And they were
>>> there at first on my 2 problem servers also. The core counters
>>> "disappeared" after I tried to open a PerfLog file that was
>>> generated by Jetstress 2007. And now that they have "disappeared"
>>> on these 2 servers, I cannot seem to figure a way to get them back.
>>>
>>> I am logged into both servers with domain admin account - which is
>>> also part of local admin on both servers.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> "Meinolf Weber" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello John,
>>>>
>>>> If i check them on my 2008 servers they are all listed and
>>>> viewable. If i open "Reliability and Performance monitor",
>>>> Monitoring tools, Performance Monitor, choose the green PLUS i can
>>>> view all including the ones you specify. What account are you
>>>> using?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>> Meinolf Weber
>>>> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties,
>>>> and
>>>> confers
>>>> no rights.
>>>> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
>>>> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have 2 Windows 2008 Servers Ent where some of the core Perfmon
>>>>> counters have gone "missing". Plenty of other counters are there
>>>>> (.NET, Exch2007, etc). But some of the main ones like Processor
>>>>> and PhysicalDisk are not listed anymore. And if you try and
>>>>> enable them via DOS, I get a msg stating they are already enabled.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have tried using Windows 2003 directions regarding repairing
>>>>> corrupt Performance Counters (kb 300956) - but no luck.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone have any suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
 
Re: Windows 2008 Server Performance Counters missing


Hi,
I had the same problem, but use lodctr /R has no effect. No errors, but
no action too.

I use this tool EXCTRLST.EXE from Microsoft
(http://download.microsoft.com/downl...xctrlst/1.00.0.1/nt5/en-us/exctrlst_setup.exe
)
and then I fix the problem, marking the "performance Counter Enabled"
checkbox near the window's bottom.


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Re: Windows 2008 Server Performance Counters missing

Hi,

Yes - this tool helped. Also, I found that the missing counters had
registry keys added called "Disable Performance Counters" in
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and the value was set to something
other than 0. There were about 10 impacted entries in all. And once the
value was set to 0, the perf counter was back again.

I had another server that was "clean" to compare it to and the "Disable
Performance Counters" key was not even in the "clean" server.

I will send a note to the Exch2007 team because it was their tool that
caused the issues in the first place. When you double-click on any of the
output blg extension performance files, it launches Perfmon - that's when the
issue occurs. It might be because the perf counters being used in Jetstress
2007 are 32-bit and the perfmon that launches is 64-bit. Not sure... but
I'll at least let them know.

Thanks for everyone's help!

"Mr.Spock" wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I had the same problem, but use lodctr /R has no effect. No errors, but
> no action too.
>
> I use this tool EXCTRLST.EXE from Microsoft
> (http://download.microsoft.com/downl...xctrlst/1.00.0.1/nt5/en-us/exctrlst_setup.exe
> )
> and then I fix the problem, marking the "performance Counter Enabled"
> checkbox near the window's bottom.
>
>
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