NScontrol service registration fails for no reason aaargh...

[kate]

we are setting up ns standard on a w2k server and we get the following

nscontrol.exe register -name trackerinstance -server ARG-SERVER
-service -serviceusername localsystem

ns registry entries being updated
ns windows service is being installed
ns performance counters are being installed

performance counter category could not be installed
category name: ns$trackerinstance : vacuumer
input string was not in correct format

any ideas as to the problem?

kate patterson

[kate]

ALso looking at the performance counters, none of the NS counters
appear to exist!

[Joe Webb]

Hi Kate -

I've seen your postings before so I'm sure you've covered the obvious,
like running NSControl Create first.

What about a permissions problem? Does your account have local admin
rights when you attempt to register the instance?

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[kate]

hi joe,

we have been investigating this one, and we believe the server (running
SBS) is suffering from a known corruption problem of the performance
counters which is preventing any app from creating new counters. When
we come to register the new NS app we think that it is encountering
this problem and failing because of it.

We can work around the error return from nscontrol (create a temporary
msi that ignores thet return code) and let the build continue with no
performance counters existing, do you think we will get any further
errors when we come to run NS.

Just how dependant is it on the counters?

can we tell nscontrol to build without counters?

Kate MBCS

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[Joe Webb]

I haven't experienced this problem myself but I suspect that at a
minimum you'll fill your application log (event viewer) with events
indicating that the perf counters were not accessible.

Can you rebuild the corrupted counters? Seems like I remember reading
an MSDN article a while back that outlined some steps for doing that.
I don't know if it works or not.

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[Shyam Pather [MSFT]]

This is most likely due to performance counter corruption on the machine.
THe following KB article may help:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;827963

Note especially the link to a .NET framework fix towards the end of the
article.

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