Win32_PerfRawData_MSMQ_MSMQQueue on Windows 2003 Server

[Charles Weaver]

When I submit the following query to WMI on a Win2K server I get a list of queues and their properties:

 

"SELECT * FROM Win32_PerfRawData_MSMQ_MSMQQueue"

When I submit the same query on a Windows 2003 Server I get a NULL object.

 

In both cases I am an administrator on the box and am submitting my query directly from the server itself.

[Frank Boyne]

"Charles Weaver" <weav...@allthisweb.com> wrote in
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> When I submit the same query
> on a Windows 2003 Server
> I get a NULL object.

More or less the same thing happened to me on a Windows XP
system. The problem seemed to be that the
Win32_PerfRawData_MSMQ* classes were not defined. However
another Windows XP system has the counter classes defined
properly.

The Win32_PerfRawData_* WMI classes are supposed to be
generated automatically from the performance counters
configured in the registry. It looks like something is
going wrong somewhere.

Try recreating the relevant performance classes using the
command: wmiadap /f
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/wmiadap.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/moving_performance_library_counters_into_wmi_classes.asp

[Charles Weaver]

Thanks Frank.

I tried this and it solved the problem.

The Microsoft documentation you pointed to says that this is supposed
to be generated each time the server is started but I don't see any
evidence that adap ran. Should I? I guess I will have to restart the
server and see whether these classes disappear again.

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[Frank Boyne]

"Charles Weaver" <charles...@post.harvard.edu> wrote
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> The Microsoft documentation you pointed to says that
this is supposed
> to be generated each time the server is started but I
don't see any
> evidence that adap ran. Should I?

I'm not sure.

The way WBEM/WMI works, these class definitions are
typically specified in a MOF language which is compiled
into the actual working definitions. It would be really
inefficient for adap to run every time the system was
started since there usually wouldn't be any new
performance counters defined. Why recreate and recompile
all the MOF definitions unnecessarily. I wouldn;t expect
adap to run at every system start - bur rather I'd expect
something to check the WMI definition against the
Perfcounter definition and only run adap if there was a
discrepancy. Of course adap could be the tool that
checked for those discrepancies.

I run with auditing turned on for processes and my event
log doesn't show adap running except when I manually ran
it yesterday (not very scientific but it's the onl;y data
I've got).

> I guess I will have to restart the
> server and see whether these classes disappear again.

They didn't on my XP system. I wouldn't expect them to
given the compiled nature of WMI/WBEM classes.

[Charles Weaver]

Thanks. I will just reboot my server and see if everything still works. If
not then I will worry about it.

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