Foreign Performance Counters Do Not Load

• Microsoft Windows 2000

SYMPTOMS

When the Performance Monitor in Windows 2000 is used to select performance objects and counters of a foreign machine, instead of selecting and displaying the counters, the following error message is displayed:

Machine Not Found

CAUSE

The Performance Monitor cannot select counters through a foreign counter performance extension because of a problem in the Performance Data Helper, Pdh.dll, library.

RESOLUTION

If it is necessary to view performance counters from a foreign system on Windows 2000, use the Performance Monitor, Perfmon.exe, from Windows NT 4.0, which is available in the Windows 2000 resource kit.

STATUS

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

MORE INFORMATION

Foreign counters are those that are exposed from a non-Windows NT system (for example, Unix) to be viewed through the Windows NT or Windows 2000 Performance Monitor. A third party supplies the foreign counter performance monitor extension that works similarly to the regular performance monitor extension. The foreign performance monitor extension is loaded when a machine name or IP address of a machine not running Windows NT or Windows 2000 is selected in Performance Monitor.

The new Windows 2000 Performance Monitor uses Pdh.dll to access performance counter data. The Pdh.dll file cannot access counters through a foreign counter extension.

REFERENCES

Please see the Platform SDK documentation; Base Services; Performance Monitoring; Performance Data; Adding Performance Counters

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbKernBase kbWinOS2000 kbPerfMon kbDSupport kbGrpKernBase
Version : WINDOWS:
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb