2003 PerfMon Counters AWOL

[Adrian]

All,

Got a strange one on a Win2k3SP1/Exch2k3SP2 server. All of the Performance
Monitor/WMI counters appear to have lost their labels.

If I fire up PerfMon, I get nothing on the initial graph.
If I try to add a counter, I get a choice of Performance Objects, each of
which contains a number of individual counters... but they're all only
identified by numbers. I can't actually add any of them to the graph. I can
add counters from other machines to PerfMon on this machine fine, though.

Admin Tools/Computer Management/Services & Apps/WMI Control/Properties
gives me the correct details.

I've tried running Exctrlst.exe from the Support tools, and it correctly
lists a whole bunch of extended counters.

Any thoughts? Most apps and services on the server appears to be running
correctly, with the exception of a monitoring client (NC_Net, for Nagios),
which fails because it can't read the WMI counters. Nothing was changed on
the server before the corruption of WMI, with the possible exception of
WindowsUpdate.

 

[John John]

Maybe this can help?

How to manually rebuild Performance Counter Library values
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956

John

Adrian wrote:

> All,
>
> Got a strange one on a Win2k3SP1/Exch2k3SP2 server. All of the Performance
> Monitor/WMI counters appear to have lost their labels.
>
> If I fire up PerfMon, I get nothing on the initial graph.
> If I try to add a counter, I get a choice of Performance Objects, each of
> which contains a number of individual counters... but they're all only
> identified by numbers. I can't actually add any of them to the graph. I can
> add counters from other machines to PerfMon on this machine fine, though.
>
> Admin Tools/Computer Management/Services & Apps/WMI Control/Properties
> gives me the correct details.
>
> I've tried running Exctrlst.exe from the Support tools, and it correctly
> lists a whole bunch of extended counters.
>
> Any thoughts? Most apps and services on the server appears to be running
> correctly, with the exception of a monitoring client (NC_Net, for Nagios),
> which fails because it can't read the WMI counters. Nothing was changed on
> the server before the corruption of WMI, with the possible exception of
> WindowsUpdate.

 

[Adrian]

John John (audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

> Maybe this can help?
>
> How to manually rebuild Performance Counter Library values
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956

I think I owe you a beer. c:\windows\system32\lodctr /R did the job.

 

[John John]

Adrian wrote:

> John John (audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca) gurgled happily, sounding much like
> they were saying :
>
>
>>Maybe this can help?
>>
>>How to manually rebuild Performance Counter Library values
>>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300956
>
>
> I think I owe you a beer. c:\windows\system32\lodctr /R did the job.

I'm too far to join you for a beer so just pay one to another fellow
close by and the good deed will be done.

John