MSExchangeIS performance counters missing

[e...@swindelles.us]

We are trying to monitor RPC counters on multiple Exchange 2003 SP2
Enterprise servers. The category "MSExchangeIS" is not available in
any of the computers' perfmon. Has anyone seen this before? Is there
is a new location from which to obtain these counters? We are
following along with a Microsoft doc on monitoring Exchange
performance and these counters are referenced many times.

[Milind Naphade]

use Perfwiz in stead. Its easy to configure than perfmon. You can download it
from Microsoft site.

[John Fullbright]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307613/en-us

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[Rich Matheisen [MVP]]

"John Fullbright" <fj...@donotspamnetapp.nospam.com> wrote:

>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307613/en-us

Or this one:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/820847

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[John Fullbright]

From the OP "We are trying to monitor RPC counters on multiple Exchange 2003

SP2
Enterprise servers. The category "MSExchangeIS" is not available in
any of the computers' perfmon. "

If you're using wmi to monitor the counters, then wmiadap /f is the way to
go. In this case, the OP is using perfmon, so lodctr is the way to go. it
reads the perf ini files and adds the counters in exactly the same way setup
does in the first place:

"During setup, Exchange Server uses the Server.ins and other .ins files to
issue commands that create the Performance Monitor counters for Exchange
Server components. The .ins files point to .ini files that contain
instructions for Lodctr.exe about how to create the counters. The .ini files
also point to .h files that include additional counter information. The .h
files are also known as symbol files. The object and counter information is
stored in the registry. However, this information is too complex to be
easily entered manually. Therefore, initialization files (.ini) are used."

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[Rich Matheisen [MVP]]

"John Fullbright" <fjohn@donotspamnetappdotcom> wrote:

>From the OP "We are trying to monitor RPC counters on multiple Exchange 2003
>SP2
>Enterprise servers. The category "MSExchangeIS" is not available in
>any of the computers' perfmon. "
>
>
>If you're using wmi to monitor the counters, then wmiadap /f is the way to
>go.

Yeah, but I've seen the counters disappear from perfmon when this
happens, too. That's not anecdotal, either. It's happened to me.

>In this case, the OP is using perfmon,

So was I. :-)

>so lodctr is the way to go.

Maybe "usually the way to go", or even "in almost all cases, the way
to go". Unloaded, loaded, rebooted, etc. They never showed up in
Perfmon or WMI until I ran across that KB article and ran wmiadap.
Then {{ poof }} . . . there they were.

>it
>reads the perf ini files and adds the counters in exactly the same way setup
>does in the first place:

It's hard to argue against seeing something work after nothing else
does. All I'm suggesting is that it be tried. It won't hurt a thing to
do it.