NTDS performance counters missing

Thought I’d doc this for any others who run into this issue.  I had to demote/promote a machine this morning and when it finished promoting I found it was missing all the NTDS\* counters in perfmon. 

I ran LODCTR /Q and saw that it looked wrong:

 

C:\Windows\system32>lodctr /q:NTDS
Performance Counter ID Queries [PERFLIB]:
Base Index: 0x00000737 (1847)
Last Counter Text ID: 0x00001792 (6034)
Last Help Text ID: 0x00001793 (6035)

Looking into it further I found it was missing the whole performance key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Performance

 

Once I found that, I exported the performance registry key from another domain controller and imported to the server missing the values and ran LODCTR /R and then the counters were back where they belonged…

 

C:\Windows\system32>lodctr /q:NTDS
Performance Counter ID Queries [PERFLIB]:
Base Index: 0x00000737 (1847)
Last Counter Text ID: 0x00001794 (6036)
Last Help Text ID: 0x00001795 (6037)

[NTDS] Performance Counters (Enabled)
DLL Name: %systemroot%\system32\ntdsperf.dll
Open Procedure: OpenNtdsPerformanceData
Collect Procedure: CollectNtdsPerformanceData
Close Procedure: CloseNtdsPerformanceData
First Counter ID: 0x000009DE (2526)
Last Counter ID: 0x000009DE (2526)
First Help ID: 0x000009DF (2527)
Last Help ID: 0x000009DF (2527)

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  What would be nice is a reason why this issue would crop up on a freshly minted server. Thankfully this still works for 2012 servers.

• Anonymous
  June 15, 2010
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• Anonymous
  June 16, 2010
  Ditto.  This was a huge save for me.  Now I just need to figure out why they were missing!!