Accessing perfmon data remotely from Domain Controller

[Guest KG]

We are having a problem trying to access perfmon data of a DC from a remote

system. When we run performance monitor on the DC everything works fine.

But when we run performance monitor from another computer and access the DC

it doesn't populate the objects selection box.

 

TIA

[Guest Justin Rich]

Re: Accessing perfmon data remotely from Domain Controller

 

so when you type the name in and then click on the drop down for objects

what does it do? does it hang for a while and then spew and empty list? does

it quickly spit out an empty list? do you get any error messages? how did

you type in the computer name? did you prefix it with \\ ?

 

its possible you have a name resolution issue.

 

one thing to try is to open computer management and remotely connect to the

DC. It works about the same and you'll be able to elimate a few things.

 

Justin

 

"KG" <KG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> We are having a problem trying to access perfmon data of a DC from a

> remote

> system. When we run performance monitor on the DC everything works fine.

> But when we run performance monitor from another computer and access the

> DC

> it doesn't populate the objects selection box.

>

> TIA

[Guest KG]

Re: Accessing perfmon data remotely from Domain Controller

 

See below.

 

"Justin Rich" wrote:

> so when you type the name in and then click on the drop down for objects

> what does it do? does it hang for a while and then spew and empty list? does

> it quickly spit out an empty list?

It relatively quickly spits out an empty list.

> do you get any error messages?

Not that we have been able to find.

> how did you type in the computer name? did you prefix it with \\ ?

We type \\computername

> its possible you have a name resolution issue.

>

> one thing to try is to open computer management and remotely connect to the

> DC. It works about the same and you'll be able to elimate a few things.

This gives us the same results. I can view event logs and manage services

from here. But if I try to go to Counter Logs and create a new log, when I

creata a new log and try to add objects it comes back with an empty

Performance Objects window.

>

> Justin

>

> "KG" <KG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:241B70AB-2247-44CB-98DB-14E1A447E301@microsoft.com...

> > We are having a problem trying to access perfmon data of a DC from a

> > remote

> > system. When we run performance monitor on the DC everything works fine.

> > But when we run performance monitor from another computer and access the

> > DC

> > it doesn't populate the objects selection box.

> >

> > TIA

>

>

>

[Guest Justin Rich]

Re: Accessing perfmon data remotely from Domain Controller

 

There is only one of 3 ways i can see that it would be accessing this data

and it looks like we eliminated one of them (RPC via the computer

management) the other two would be WMI and the registry..

 

if you have powershell on your workstation you can easily run a remote WMI

call to see if there are any issues accessing WMI data (not sure what WMI

uses to pull data remotely, it might actually be RPC) and you can connect to

the registry remotely via regedit. there is a remote registry service you

might want to make sure is running on the server.

 

if those two work fine than i would say there is a chance you have strange

permissions going on perhaps. Are you using the same AD account on both

machines?

 

the event log didnt have anything? some times perfmon stuff is only showed

as an info event and not an error or important event. also, it could show up

on either machine. local workstation would show a connection issue and the

remote server might show a security issue or missing data.

 

i assume you dont run the firewall, but its worth asking.

 

"KG" <KG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> See below.

>

> "Justin Rich" wrote:

>

>> so when you type the name in and then click on the drop down for objects

>> what does it do? does it hang for a while and then spew and empty list?

>> does

>> it quickly spit out an empty list?

> It relatively quickly spits out an empty list.

>

>> do you get any error messages?

> Not that we have been able to find.

>

>> how did you type in the computer name? did you prefix it with \\ ?

> We type \\computername

>

>> its possible you have a name resolution issue.

>>

>> one thing to try is to open computer management and remotely connect to

>> the

>> DC. It works about the same and you'll be able to elimate a few things.

> This gives us the same results. I can view event logs and manage services

> from here. But if I try to go to Counter Logs and create a new log, when

> I

> creata a new log and try to add objects it comes back with an empty

> Performance Objects window.

>

>>

>> Justin

>>

>> "KG" <KG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

>> news:241B70AB-2247-44CB-98DB-14E1A447E301@microsoft.com...

>> > We are having a problem trying to access perfmon data of a DC from a

>> > remote

>> > system. When we run performance monitor on the DC everything works

>> > fine.

>> > But when we run performance monitor from another computer and access

>> > the

>> > DC

>> > it doesn't populate the objects selection box.

>> >

>> > TIA

>>

>>

>>