topic Perfmon counters not displaying correctly in Windows Server 2003

Perfmon counters not displaying correctly

Peter A. Berger Jr. — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:15:16 GMT

On a Windows 2003 SP1 machine we open perfmon.exe and try to setup some counters for monitoring. But instead of getting the usual Counter names (Processor; Memory; TCP threads, disk utilization, etc) all that we get is a list of random numbers.
We click: Performance Logs & Alerts; Counter Logs; New Log Settings; Name; Add Counters; Use Local Computer Counters; Performance Object.

It is this "Performance Object" drop-down box that lists the random numbers instead of the usual counter names. We haven't seen this on any other server.

Is there a fix? If not, is there a translation table from the number to an English counter name?

Any help/411 would be great. Thanks!

Re: Perfmon counters not displaying correctly

Igor Karasik — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 11:07:05 GMT

Curiously, I see such behaviour many times in windows 2000 days, but never meet it on windows 2003.
Try to rebuild performance counters:
"How to manually rebuild Performance Counter Library values"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=300956

Re: Perfmon counters not displaying correctly

Peter A. Berger Jr. — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 11:59:06 GMT

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=300956
worked fine. Thanks!