We are running 'Active Directory 2008 R2 Services and Counters' template on 10+ domain controllers and all report correctly except for one trouble server. The service monitors work correctly but the performance counter monitors are failing with the error: "Bad input parameter. HResult: The specified object is not found on the system." I've searched around and tried the following fixes: Restarting Remote Registry - http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/169647#169647 Restarting WMI Adding Network Service as COM Services Admin Microsoft Remote Registry Hotfix - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2699780 Checked license availability for application monitors Rebooted Server Tried to rebuild the performance counters Ran Perfmon from the Solarwinds Server, managed the not working server and selected several counters from above that are not working via the web browser and they monitored correctly I thought it might be a permissions issue but I ran PerfMon from a working DC and managed the not woring DC and it reported correctly. I tried this in reverse and it also worked correctly. Our setup is: Orion Platform 2013.1.0, SAM 5.5.0, IPAM 4.0, NCM 7.2, NPM 10.5, NTA 3.11.0, IVIM 1.6.0, VNQM 4.0.1

This has been fixed/corrected. Thank you Kate @ Solarwinds! The issue is simply that the counter is not present on the problem server. The application monitor is polling for Category: NTDS. If you look at a working Domain Controller, the Counter is there: But on the not working server it is not there: For this server we had to override the template and change the counter to DirectoryServices: This is odd because both servers are Windows 2008 R2 SP1. No differences that I know of. It appears the working servers have BOTH counter categories, DirectoryServices and NTDS where-as the not working server is missing NTDS. Thanks to all for the help!

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Performance Counter Monitor - Bad Input Pameter - HResult

joebecker8 over 10 years ago

We are running 'Active Directory 2008 R2 Services and Counters' template on 10+ domain controllers and all report correctly except for one trouble server. The service monitors work correctly but the performance counter monitors are failing with the error: "Bad input parameter. HResult: The specified object is not found on the system."

I've searched around and tried the following fixes:

Restarting Remote Registry - http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/169647#169647
Restarting WMI
Adding Network Service as COM Services Admin
Microsoft Remote Registry Hotfix - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2699780
Checked license availability for application monitors
Rebooted Server
Tried to rebuild the performance counters
Ran Perfmon from the Solarwinds Server, managed the not working server and selected several counters from above that are not working via the web browser and they monitored correctly

I thought it might be a permissions issue but I ran PerfMon from a working DC and managed the not woring DC and it reported correctly. I tried this in reverse and it also worked correctly.

Our setup is:

Orion Platform 2013.1.0, SAM 5.5.0, IPAM 4.0, NCM 7.2, NPM 10.5, NTA 3.11.0, IVIM 1.6.0, VNQM 4.0.1

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0 joebecker8 over 10 years ago in reply to aLTeReGo

This has been fixed/corrected. Thank you Kate @ Solarwinds!
The issue is simply that the counter is not present on the problem server. The application monitor is polling for Category: NTDS.
If you look at a working Domain Controller, the Counter is there:
But on the not working server it is not there:
For this server we had to override the template and change the counter to DirectoryServices:
This is odd because both servers are Windows 2008 R2 SP1. No differences that I know of.
It appears the working servers have BOTH counter categories, DirectoryServices and NTDS where-as the not working server is missing NTDS.
Thanks to all for the help!
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0 joebecker8 over 10 years ago in reply to joebecker8

Side note: I also had to add a instance of NTDS:
You can find this in the Performance Monitor:
Yours might be different.
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0 kasaff over 10 years ago in reply to joebecker8

My pleasure and thanks for updating the thread!
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0 joebecker8 over 10 years ago in reply to kasaff

Anytime!
For anyone who might read this, I am 90% sure that this was caused because the Domain controller was promoted, demoted and then re-promoted to domain controller status.
I noticed that the performance folder was missing from the registry on the not working domain controller but was there on a working domain controller.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Performance
I exported NTDS from the a working Domain Controller and imported.
I tested and it work!
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