I'm having some issues with getting WMI and Performance Counter Monitors to work.
Originally, I could add them by going to APM Settings > Browse Node for Components > WMI Monitor or Performance Counter Monitor, choose the server then find the one I'm looking for in the drop down. I was able to add it but it never picked up any data and the Event Viewer showed Event "The data buffer created for the (service name) service in the (DLL name) library is not aligned on an 8-byte boundary. This may cause problems for applications that are trying to read the performance data buffer. Contact the manufacturer of this library or service to have this problem corrected or to get a newer version of this library."
During research, I came across all kinds of info about WMI and DLL registrations. This page (http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/dthomson/archive/2005/01/01/1175.aspx) pretty much sums up all of them to include running winmgmt commands, removing the Repository directory, verifying permissions on WMI Control and DCOM, and re-registering DLLs and MOFs.
Doing all of that only succeeded in removing the Performance Objects I was using and the SQL objects from the drop down! Now I can't get them to show up in the list again. I knew nothing about WMI or DLL registering until this, I've learned during researching this problem but still don't know everything. What am I missing?
