Monday, September 15, 2008

Perfmon is empty after installing IBM Director

Noticed while trying to install SNMP Informant
It maps Perfmon counter to SNMP for easy monitoring

Solution:
check the following windows registry key, it's likely empty

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib]
"Base Index"=dword:00000737
"ExtCounterTestLevel"=dword:00000004
"Last Counter"=dword:00000b2c
"Last Help"=dword:00000b2d
"Version"=dword:00010001

the above is from a Windows 2003 sp1 machine
find a PC with the same O/S and Service Pack as the permon-less PC
export the above key
edit the .reg file
delete everything except what's in the root key
import it on the permon-less PC

Supporting articles:
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3231101&SiteID=17

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