IAS (Radius) Counters Are Installed by Default Even If the Service Is Not Installed

ID: Q243019

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

SYMPTOMS

When you view the list of available counters in the System Monitor tool, Internet Authentication service (IAS, or Radius) counters are available even for computers that do not have IAS installed. The following counters are available but return no data on computers without IAS:

IAS Accounting Clients
IAS Accounting Server
IAS Authentication Clients
IAS Authentication Server

RESOLUTION

Because the counters return no data for computers that do not have IAS installed, do not add them to the log file.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbenv kbtool
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb