Monitoring 2003 MSMQ Cluster

[Microsoft MSMQ Setup]

Can someone tell me what tools are available to monitor the number of
messages in a public queue when running MSMQ in a clustered
environment.

According to the technet docs, this is not possible...so is anyone
using 3rd party tools???

[John Breakwell]

Hi

This should work if you use a registry key (NetNameForPerfCounters).

The "More Information" section of the following KB article has a good
explanation:

267316 FIX: Performance monitor counters are lost on the cluster during
failover in Message Queuing
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;267316

Also review the following:

884975 Performance Monitor counters may not appear, and the counter values
may be incorrect when you remotely monitor clustered instances of Message
Queuing in Windows 2000 Server
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;884975

Finally, check that the counters are actually working and not broken. Look
out for PerfLib event 1008s in the application event log that mention MSMQ
specifically.

Cheers
John Breakwell
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http://blogs.msdn.com/johnbreakwell