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Enable Remote Perfmon

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A.       Open the elevated Command Prompt on one of the remote machines.

B.       Then run the commands as mentioned below:

 

Logman create counter Perflog_Short -u DOMAIN\USERNAME * -f bincirc -v mmddhhmm -max 600 -c "\SERVERNAME\LogicalDisk(*)\" "\SERVERNAME\Memory\" "\SERVERNAME\Network Interface(*)\" "\SERVERNAME\Paging File(*)\" "\SERVERNAME\PhysicalDisk(*)\" "\SERVERNAME\Process(*)\" "\SERVERNAME\Redirector\" "\SERVERNAME\Server\" "\SERVERNAME\System\" "\SERVERNAME\Terminal Services\" "\SERVERNAME\Processor(*)\" "\SERVERNAME\Cache\" -si 00:00:01

 

Logman create counter Perflog_Long -u DOMAIN\USERNAME * -f bincirc -v mmddhhmm -max 600 -c "\SERVERNAME\LogicalDisk(*)\" "\SERVERNAME\Memory\" "\SERVERNAME\Network Interface(*)\" "\SERVERNAME\Paging File(*)\" "\SERVERNAME\PhysicalDisk(*)\" "\SERVERNAME\Process(*)\" "\SERVERNAME\Redirector\" "\SERVERNAME\Server\" "\SERVERNAME\System\" "\SERVERNAME\Terminal Services\" "\SERVERNAME\Processor(*)\" "\SERVERNAME\Cache\" -si 00:05:00

 

Replace the SERVERNAME with problem server name.

Replace DOMAIN/USERNAME with your domain name and domain admin credentials.

 

C.       It will ask for your password.

D.       Once the above command has been executed, we get a successful message on the Command Prompt.

E.       Then run below commands:

 

Logman.exe start Perflog_Short for perfmon short and Logman.exe start Perflog_Long to start perfmon long, respectively.

 

F.       Whenever the issue occurs on the server, please use the command Logman.exe stop Perflog_Short and  Logman.exe stop Perflog_Long to stop the perfmon at the time of the issue before you reboot the problem machine.