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Re: Exchange WMI Monitor - Multi-Instance?
SteveSW Dec 10, 2010 3:12 PM (in response to pmcdonn1)Verify that your categories and values are spelled correctly and that spaces are as required for the counters you are interested in.
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Re: Exchange WMI Monitor - Multi-Instance?
kb1lxm Jan 6, 2011 2:00 PM (in response to pmcdonn1)Actually I've noticed this too, what version of APM are you running?
We just upgraded to 3.5 and I noticed most of my disk related WMI counter APMs stopped working with the same error, but only if they were pointed at Win 2k8 and 2k8 R2 machines. However if I toss these same counters into Perfmon they work great.
If I use the wizard to add WMI counters, I notice that there are only a handful of catagories that I can choose performance counters on....
And that's about it. I can still monitor services and use scripts fine but particular performance counters (That worked fine when I was using 3.0) are unavailable.
UAC is off and the account polling the counters is a local admin on the box.
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Re: Exchange WMI Monitor - Multi-Instance?
Ralphr Jan 21, 2011 1:01 PM (in response to kb1lxm)Having a similar problem with Performance Counters against 2008 Exchange Servers. Set up a number of polls monitoring various Exchange Transport Queues and Mail Store metrics. All is well for awhile (days and weeks) then I get "Access to the Registry Key xxxx denied" and all of the polls for that particular server fail. Verified that the user ID being used still had admin access to that server. When I go back and try to browse the Performance Counters for that server I now only see a handful of categories very similar to if not exaclty as shown in the post from kb1lxm. Had these polls working against 20 Exchange servers and over the past few weeks have seen this failure against 5 of those servers and had to unmanage these monitors for those servers. Running NPM 10.1.1 with APM 3.5.
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Re: Exchange WMI Monitor - Multi-Instance?
kb1lxm Jan 21, 2011 1:07 PM (in response to Ralphr)I did notice that WMI Monitor checks work for those same counters, but until there is a fix (APM 4.0.1 maybe?) I'll just have to use those.
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Re: Exchange WMI Monitor - Multi-Instance?
martin.susil Feb 1, 2011 8:43 AM (in response to kb1lxm)
Actually I've noticed this too, what version of APM are you running?
We just upgraded to 3.5 and I noticed most of my disk related WMI counter APMs stopped working with the same error, but only if they were pointed at Win 2k8 and 2k8 R2 machines. However if I toss these same counters into Perfmon they work great.
There was hotfix for performance counter issues released for APM 3.5. Did you apply it?
Are those errors you can see permanent failures or random failures?
So perfmon is working - but did you try it remotely or locally on the target node?
If I use the wizard to add WMI counters, I notice that there are only a handful of catagories that I can choose performance counters on....
And that's about it. I can still monitor services and use scripts fine but particular performance counters (That worked fine when I was using 3.0) are unavailable.
UAC is off and the account polling the counters is a local admin on the box.
You are selecting 'WMI Monitor' as component type in the wizard? If so, please try also to browse for 'Performance Counter Monitor' and check if it has the same results. If it shows more counters available, then it could help to rebuild WMI as described in the WMI Troubleshooting Guide steps.
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Re: Exchange WMI Monitor - Multi-Instance?
DamianBunn Mar 16, 2011 10:44 AM (in response to martin.susil)I am also getting this error:
Bad input parameter. Instance 'Information Store/_Total' does not exist in the specified Category.
Can anyone let me know how to resolve.
Regards,
Damian
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Re: Exchange WMI Monitor - Multi-Instance?
ncsisnet Dec 12, 2011 1:45 AM (in response to DamianBunn)Revisiting this issue, is there a solution?
I'm getting these errors particularly with Exchange 2010 templates. Perviously I had the "registry key denied" error, which was kind of resolved with a restart of the Remote Registry service in Windows.
Now, even a restart does not help - I simply get the Bad input parameters error.
Using NPM 10.2 and APM 4.2.
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Re: Exchange WMI Monitor - Multi-Instance?
northben Jan 9, 2012 12:13 PM (in response to ncsisnet)I'm having a similar problem with Active Directory monitors against two Server 2008 machines. I just tried restarting Remote Registry (which restarted WINS and DFS Namespace) and it worked on both servers. I wonder if this is a SolarWinds problem or a Server 2008 problem.
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Re: Exchange WMI Monitor - Multi-Instance?
SteveSW Jan 9, 2012 10:04 PM (in response to northben)Can you clarify, are the issues you are having with APM or the WMI Monitor free tool? I want to bring this to the correct group's attention.
Thanks.
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Steve
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Re: Exchange WMI Monitor - Multi-Instance?
northben Jan 11, 2012 5:51 PM (in response to SteveSW)I'm running APM 4.2.0 SP1. I just opened a ticket: #302028. Thank you.
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Re: Exchange WMI Monitor - Multi-Instance?
cshanep Jun 25, 2012 12:25 PM (in response to northben)What is the verdict? I am seeing the "Bad input parameter" error as well for some NTDS\ perfmon counters within the active directory components on some hosts.
-Shane
Loop1 Systems
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Re: Exchange WMI Monitor - Multi-Instance?
Leon AdatoApr 21, 2011 11:08 AM (in response to pmcdonn1)
I'm also seeing this. Using the Perfmon counters (not WMI), where other items are working fine. It's just a handful that are giving category or instance errors. When I check on the server, they appear to all be there.
Thanks!