KG

We are having a problem trying to access perfmon data of a DC from a remote
system. When we run performance monitor on the DC everything works fine.
But when we run performance monitor from another computer and access the DC
it doesn't populate the objects selection box.

TIA

Justin Rich

so when you type the name in and then click on the drop down for objects
what does it do? does it hang for a while and then spew and empty list? does
it quickly spit out an empty list? do you get any error messages? how did
you type in the computer name? did you prefix it with \\ ?

its possible you have a name resolution issue.

one thing to try is to open computer management and remotely connect to the
DC. It works about the same and you'll be able to elimate a few things.

Justin

"KG" <KG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:241B70AB-2247-44CB-98DB-14E1A447E301@microsoft.com...
> We are having a problem trying to access perfmon data of a DC from a
> remote
> system. When we run performance monitor on the DC everything works fine.
> But when we run performance monitor from another computer and access the
> DC
> it doesn't populate the objects selection box.
>
> TIA

KG

See below.

"Justin Rich" wrote:

> so when you type the name in and then click on the drop down for objects
> what does it do? does it hang for a while and then spew and empty list? does
> it quickly spit out an empty list?
It relatively quickly spits out an empty list.

> do you get any error messages?
Not that we have been able to find.

> how did you type in the computer name? did you prefix it with \\ ?
We type \\computername

> its possible you have a name resolution issue.
>
> one thing to try is to open computer management and remotely connect to the
> DC. It works about the same and you'll be able to elimate a few things.
This gives us the same results. I can view event logs and manage services
from here. But if I try to go to Counter Logs and create a new log, when I
creata a new log and try to add objects it comes back with an empty
Performance Objects window.

>
> Justin
>
> "KG" <KG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:241B70AB-2247-44CB-98DB-14E1A447E301@microsoft.com...
> > We are having a problem trying to access perfmon data of a DC from a
> > remote
> > system. When we run performance monitor on the DC everything works fine.
> > But when we run performance monitor from another computer and access the
> > DC
> > it doesn't populate the objects selection box.
> >
> > TIA
>
>
>

Justin Rich

There is only one of 3 ways i can see that it would be accessing this data
and it looks like we eliminated one of them (RPC via the computer
management) the other two would be WMI and the registry..

if you have powershell on your workstation you can easily run a remote WMI
call to see if there are any issues accessing WMI data (not sure what WMI
uses to pull data remotely, it might actually be RPC) and you can connect to
the registry remotely via regedit. there is a remote registry service you
might want to make sure is running on the server.

if those two work fine than i would say there is a chance you have strange
permissions going on perhaps. Are you using the same AD account on both
machines?

the event log didnt have anything? some times perfmon stuff is only showed
as an info event and not an error or important event. also, it could show up
on either machine. local workstation would show a connection issue and the
remote server might show a security issue or missing data.

i assume you dont run the firewall, but its worth asking.

"KG" <KG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> See below.
>
> "Justin Rich" wrote:
>
>> so when you type the name in and then click on the drop down for objects
>> what does it do? does it hang for a while and then spew and empty list?
>> does
>> it quickly spit out an empty list?
> It relatively quickly spits out an empty list.
>
>> do you get any error messages?
> Not that we have been able to find.
>
>> how did you type in the computer name? did you prefix it with \\ ?
> We type \\computername
>
>> its possible you have a name resolution issue.
>>
>> one thing to try is to open computer management and remotely connect to
>> the
>> DC. It works about the same and you'll be able to elimate a few things.
> This gives us the same results. I can view event logs and manage services
> from here. But if I try to go to Counter Logs and create a new log, when
> I
> creata a new log and try to add objects it comes back with an empty
> Performance Objects window.
>
>>
>> Justin
>>
>> "KG" <KG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:241B70AB-2247-44CB-98DB-14E1A447E301@microsoft.com...
>> > We are having a problem trying to access perfmon data of a DC from a
>> > remote
>> > system. When we run performance monitor on the DC everything works
>> > fine.
>> > But when we run performance monitor from another computer and access
>> > the
>> > DC
>> > it doesn't populate the objects selection box.
>> >
>> > TIA
>>
>>
>>