Healthmon is healthy again.

I know I talked earlier about fixing IISLockdn but I ended up fixing the Perflib problem that stopped Healthmon from being of any use. During SBS installation the performance counters had gotten screwed up and I could not monitor cpu utilization, memory paging, etc. Those performance objects gave me WMI errors?! The rest of the counters were working fine but I really wanted to monitor cpu utilization and paging. My first tries at fixing this were a failure and my searches of M$ Knowlegebase were fruitless. The best I could find was a Q that recommended rebuilding the perflib counters.  So I turned off alerting in Healthon and went on to more pressing problems. When I started the IISLockdn analysis today, I remembered I had this outstanding problem with Healthmon/perflib. Since I was in a very technical mood I decided to a quick search of the M$ Knowlegebase. A couple of searches later I started to focus on a utility in the W2K resource kit that may be of some use, exctrlst.exe. It displays registry settings for performance objects and allows you to modify them. It was worth at least a try. My initial searches did not find a copy online that I could download. Then I found the entire W2K resource kit online. The utility doesn't show up in a normal search but its there. I downloaded the utility and to my surprise, performance monitoring was turned off on all of the objects that were giving me WMI errors. I turned on performance monitoring on my problem performance objects and rebooted the server. Now I have all of the performance objects available for Healthmon reporting. This was not part of my original plan but I am very happy to Healthmon doing its job correctly.

Comments [] 8:41:27 PM Google It!    

IISLockdn cleanup

Yesterday I installed Windows XP and Office 2003 Beta 2 on my son's computer. He actually needed Word since he left his laptop at his friends house and we are trying to send out birthday invitations. It locked up on him and he lost the first version. Oh, well!

Maybe I'll have time to play with IISLockdn version 2.1 today. The intranet website was stopped again so I uninstalled IM server. I think these problems all started when I tried to install Software Update Services and it ran IISLockdn. I will probably chase down a http error 502 out of the exchange system manager before proceeding. I fixed some path errors(case sensitive?) that gave me little red icons stop sign icons for some of the exchange directories.

Comments [] 11:33:50 AM Google It!    

Today is beautiful. It was supposed to be stormy but that will probably come later. I will try and get a good soaking of the arena while Andi is gone. It's probably time for me to add more magnesium chloride. I'll have to spread compost on some other day. The fields are too wet.

Comments [] 11:25:26 AM     

Iraq News Hound?!

Debka expects the surrender of two Iraqi divisions. "They are the forces charged with defending the oil fields of region and represent two-thirds of the Iraqi army in the south." [Scripting News]

It is interesting to see this news/rumor reported by Debka and not confirmed by the rest of the media. Hmm..

Comments [] 11:18:48 AM Google It!