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.

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.

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.

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