One typical day I receive a request from a performance tester who is trying to collect some baseline production data about www.microsoft.com , the request seemed simple collect a couple of performance counter values during peak hours and post the data back to him . I started to collecting data from my machines. One of the counters that he was interested in was Process à Handle Count à w3wp. I could not find the process counter the counters what I had was as follows.
I quickly remembered about resource kit utility in win2k that was used to resolve this type of issue exctrlst.exe . Found a copy of it and copied it over to my 2k8 server not sure it would really work on 2k8 I decided to test my luck. I had a feeling that it was just a registry change so at the same time I started regmon on the server to capture registry changes. Launched the tool and selected the perfproc counter and check marked performance counters enabled.
Now I know what it sets in registry so I did want to do this remotely. Quickly put through a for loop for the following command
Reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PerfProc\Performance /v “Disable Performance Counters” /t REG_DWORD /d 0
One more issue resolved
One typical day I receive a request from a performance tester who is trying to collect some baseline
Cool… it worked!!!
Good and informative post..