Performance and Reliability Monitoring fails to act on Alerts

[Guest Andy Bee]

I am running Windows Server 2008 x64. I want me server to take an action

from a batch file if the processor time gets above some threshold. I set up

a data collector set in Reliability and Performance, and set an alert task to

kick of the batch file. I also set it to write an alert to the Application

Event Log.

 

Neither of these work. If I set a Perf Mon or trace, they operate as

expected. However, when I add Alert, the Alert Action and Alert Taks both

fail. Interestingly, if there is no Alert Action, the data collector set

stops (it will start, then immediately stop with no error.)

 

This does exactly the same thing on two different servers. It looks like a

bug, is ayone else making it work?