MQPERF.dll Performance Counters Fail To Load (was New Member ... With New Problem)
May 2, 2006
Hello to all the members.
I have a SQl server on a Win2000 box. The server is located behind a screened subnet, and has no access to the outside world except for 1433 and 445 inbound from a webserver located in a DMZ, forward of the internal firewall. Rules are very tight, and the IIS box is patched and has been hardened further including running urlscan. (allowed verbs=get,head,post. all executable and script types disallowed, permissions very tight) I have written an appication that monitors bad http requests in real time to check that the URL scan is working, and it seems to be. The only way to get to the SQL box, would be running injection on page code (majority written by myself no raw sql) on the web server or launching an exploit over HTTP against known ADODB flaws on the web server. The SQL server is a domain member, the IIS server is a standalone. If theres a way to compromise the SQL box without first breaching both firewalls, or first compromising the IIS server, I dont know how to do it. Still, the sql box began acting up, refusing to accept a terminal services connection (the error stated that there was a failure to load Win32.sys) No sign that the machine had been compromised. I restored from a complete back up, which seemed to fix the terminal services problem, but now the sql performance counters fail to load. Specifically MQPERF.dll. Any ideas on what may have caused the server to have 'issues' (prevailing theory centers around evil spirits), and what can I do to get the performance counters to load. Tried replacing the library.
I am running MSSQL v7.0 with Service Pack 2. I just realized that I have no sql server performance counters on this machine. Does anyone know how to install these performance counters without reinstalling the SQL Server software?
Hi all, I have sql 2000 enterprise. From performance monitor, the sql counters are missing. During installation I've made sure that the sqlcounters are installed. The sqlctr80.dll is installed. But still the counters are not showing.
Has anybody come across this, not sure what to do next
On 32 bit SSIS installations, both of the following performance counter objects are visible in perfmon.
SQLServer:SSIS Service
SQLServer:SSIS Pipeline
On 64 bit SSIS installations, only the following is available.
SQLServer:SSIS Service
The SQlServer:SSIS Pipeline counters are nowhere to be found.
Should I re-install? Is this a known issue with 64 bit SSIS?
P.S. Remote or local access administrative access with perfmon makes no difference, the "SQLServer:SSIS Pipeline" performance counters don't appear in the listbox when connecting to Windows 2003 x64 server.
I have a 32-bit application which sometimes runs against 64-bit servers. When it does, I can't read the performance counters published by the FTS service because they're 64-bit only. I get event #1022 from PerfLib in the event log:
Windows cannot open the 64-bit extensible counter DLL msftesqlFD in a 32-bit environment. Contact the file vendor to obtain a 32-bit version. Alternatively if you are running a 64-bit native environment, you can open the 64-bit extensible counter DLL by using the 64-bit version of Performance Monitor. To use this tool, open the Windows folder, open the System32 folder, and then start Perfmon.exe.
Does Microsoft make available 32-bit counter libraries for 32-bit clients of the 64-bit FTS? How do I obtain those bits?
We have SSIS installed and everything is working great. We are now to the point of wanting to tune one of our longer running packages and the Performance counters are not working. At all. They show up ok but the counter is always at 0. Is there anything special I have to do to get this to work.
One comment I fould was that the Performance Logs and Alerts service needs to be running to see these counters. I tried to start it and it immediately quit. I set it to automatic startup up and run a package. The counter still read 0.
Is there anything else out there I can try to get these counters to return somthing. Thanks.
The SQL server perfmon counters are missing from one of my MSSQL 7.0 servers - they do appear in others just fine.
Can anyone tell me what is wrong and/or how I can add the counters? I have seen archieve notes on this topic but can't access them for some reason (page appears blank when I click on link)
I am using perfmon to remotely monitor the problem server. My login has sysadmin permissions and is an NT admin. on both the server and the monitoring client. The login account for MSSQL server and SQL Agent services are both sysadmins.
Im missing all SQL Server counters in the Performance Monitor
and have looked at article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q196/6/57.ASP&NoWebContent=1
but this article refers to SQL 7...I have 2K with SP3 and MS03-031
Does any one know, how I can add SQLServer performance monitoring counters back on my NT server. For some reason I am missing these counters. I really do not want to reinstall either the NT OS or SQL OS if there is anyway to aviod this. Thanks
On some of my database servers, there are SQL Server counters in Performance Monitor. On other servers these are not present. How can I turn these on?
I know with the disc counters you need to explicitly enable them: diskperf -yv
Is there a parallel for SQL Server? I don't remember doing anything to get them working on the servers that have them. All online articles seem to assume that they just exist.
I have been collecting information about 20 performance counters (memory, IO, cpu, SQL) that refresh every 15 seconds, would that have any performance hit in the server? what are best practices when collecting information via performance counters?
I've always assumed SQL Server performance monitor counters get automatically installed when SQL Server is installed. I recently installed SQL Server on a remote server and noticed the SQL Server performance monitor counters do not appear in Perfmon. Aren't these counters automatically installed during setup?
SQL 6.5 had counters for monitoring SQL licenses. Where did Microsoft hide them in SQL 7.0? Or did they just disappear? If they are gone, is anyone doing anything to monitor the licenses with something like perfmon? User Connections doesn't help because the application takes several and not always the same number of user connections for one license.
I want to automate the offloading of SQL Server 6.5 logs before they become full. I've set this up 'manually' by triggering a job to run when the LogSpaceUsed threshold of the SQLServerLOg counter exceeds a certain value, but what I want to do now is to automate the starting of this performance counter. Ideally what I'd like is to (1) Start the counter once SQL is up, having (2) first ensured a particular instance of the counter isn't already executing (3) have some means of detecting whether this counter ever stops running in which case we'd have to restart it. This is probably more of an NT question than anything but if anyone has experience of this please let me know....I have tried trying to get SQlServer to start the performance counter as it starts up. I used sp_makestartup to define a stored procedure which runs on startup, this uses xp_cmdshell to call a CMD file which calls the saved counter definition (a .pmw file, performance monitor workspace) I thought this should work but the counter wasn't loaded......this doesn't check whewther an existing version of the counter is already running anyway.
My Performance Counters for SQL Server 2005 are corrupted. How do I repair them ?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Salyx
Specs Windows 2003 Standard, AMD x64. SQL Server 2005; x64; 9.00.3042.00; SP2 Standard Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 2) This is a new install, so no "upgrade from SQL 2000". This is a production server, so "reboot" is hopefully not part of the suggested repair.
Symptom Open Performance Monitor. Open Add Counters. Open Dropdown "Performance Object". Instead of the SQL Server Performance Counter names, a list of 4-digit numbers appears. Other Performance Counters, eg, Processor, work as normal.
Attempted repair 1 - Recovery of system performance counters Open Command Prompt CD WindowsSystem32 lodctr /R This failed to restore the full set of performance counters for an unknown reason.
Attempted repair 2 - Recovery from a backup file from a second host I used the performance counter backup file from a second host which has an identical windows install. This properly restored the system performance counters, but failed to restore the SQL Server ones. This seems odd, because both system have - as much as I can tell - the same applications installed.
Open Command Prompt CD WindowsSystem32 REM Load backup file from second host lodctr /R:c:PerfStringBackup.INI
Attempted repair 3 - Recover SQL Server - specific counters Open Command Prompt CD WindowsSystem32 REM Load backup file from second host lodctr /R:c:PerfStringBackup.INI REM Clear and re-load MSSQLServer counters... unlodctr MSSQLServer lodctr "/R:C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLBinnsqlctr.ini"
Executing this pretty much wiped most performance counters. Only a small sub-set is now available.
More Info SQL Server 2005 and later SP2 were installed under the administrator account. MSSQLServer service runs under its own Windows Account (permission issues ??) I get Event Log entries regarding x86 vs x64 Performance Counter Libraries. These, however, do not refer to ASP, not SQL Server. I have 2 (virtually) identical hosts (same install sequence of apps). The Performance Counters on the second host work fine. Exctrlst.exe lists MSSQLSERVER service, but I don't know how to diagnose the details.
I have 2 SQL Server 7 databases installed on 2 Windows 2000 servers. One box shows all the SQL performance counters with in performance monitor, the other one doesn't. Is there a way to register those SQL counters in performance monitor?
There are so many to choose from, which ones are the most important to monitor?
Also if you have your data files and trans logs set to grow automaticlly and would like to change this to a fixed number is there a way to determine how large you should set them at? Thanks in advance. :confused:
I have an Alwayson group with 2 Nodes. The SQL Performance counters are always showing on the secondary, but the primary is inconsistent.
I loaded the counters on the primary (unlodctr and lodctr ), restarted the SQL service, and confirmed that the counters were there. 2 days later the counters were gone again. I loaded them again. A week later we had maintenance, failed over to the secondary, and when we failed back to the primary - the counters were gone again….
Does anyone know how to make the ODBC Connection Pooling performance counters work? I read http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;216950 to enable the performance counters, but they still all report 0s.
I'm putting together a Kimball method SSIS package. My factSales table has an OrderRep key. If a match isn't found in the dimRep table I am inserting a dummy dimRep row and going on. That seems to be working.
My question is what do I do when the OLTP sales row has NULL for the OrderRep. This is possible; every sale does not have to have an order rep. My package is seeing that as a non match and trying to create a dummy row in the dimRep table for every NULL. I really don't want to do this. I can trap for the NULL rep and convert it to "unknown" or something but then the program would still create a single row in the dimRep table for unknown. Is that the best way to handle this? Or is there a way to trap for NULL and ignore the entire lookup process? A conditional split before every key lookup?
I have about 5 or 6 other dimension tables that will have the same NULL possibility.
In the past, I've combined server side traces with Perfmon successfully, which is pretty useful, I know that. I would like to do the same with Extended Events, so I can correlate and analyze the server side as well.
This is related to an earlier post, but I found out that I was able to see SQL Server counters in Performance monitor before applying the patch, but the counters were not present afterwards....
Hi!Currently we only have one SQL Server database in our production system. I would like to add one more SQL server 2000 database. I would like to configure them so that both server share the load and Failover. I did some research and I found that I can do this by installing the OS (Windows 2000 Server Enterprise Edition) and SQL 2000 Enterprise Edition on both machines using the windows clustering. I want both servers to be active. They both have a copy of the production data. What I don't know is that, if it is possible to synchronize the data on both databases using SQL Server Replication utitlites. From what I know one SQL Server must be Publisher and one Subscriber. Can one sql server be both? Because I want both sql server to be identical. Can I set up replication between more than 2 servers? We just need to add one server for now but I would like it to be expandable. In the future we may need more.So Please provide me some ideas and answers about the following.1- Can two SQL Server cross replicate (both update each other in order to be identical)?2 -Does replication work beyond 2 servers.?3- If you were to set up a production database; what do you recommend considering the load balancing and Failover using Windows 2000 Server Enterprise Edition and SQL Sever 20000 Enterprise Edition?Thanks,Michael
I woudl like to know how to improve performances of query. I have a cube, quite small with 8 dimensions and 2 measures. I also have 3 calculated members because i need avg aggregates on my measures. So 2 of my calculated measures are the simple measures but with avg aggregate. the third measure is the increase in percent between the 2 other measures.
I do use and browse my cube in Excel 2007. And the execution time of query is too long. I used the partition to design aggregates and optimize performances but it's still very low.
I saw that "scope" could be more efficient than calculated members but i dont know how it works. Could someone tell me that?
I'm currently receiving the following error message whilst attempting to install SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition on Windows Server 2003 (32 Bit): Error 29528. The setup has encountered an unexpected error while Installing performance counters. The error is: The system cannot find the file specified.
This server already has an install of SQL Server 2000 as the default instance. I'm attempting to install a new named instance of SQL Server 2005.
Extract from log:
<Func Name='LaunchFunction'> Function=Do_sqlPerfmon2 <Func Name='GetCAContext'> <EndFunc Name='GetCAContext' Return='T' GetLastError='0'> Doing Action: Do_sqlPerfmon2 PerfTime Start: Do_sqlPerfmon2 : Tue Jun 12 10:20:02 2007 <Func Name='Do_sqlPerfmon2'> <EndFunc Name='Do_sqlPerfmon2' Return='0' GetLastError='2'> PerfTime Stop: Do_sqlPerfmon2 : Tue Jun 12 10:20:02 2007 MSI (s) (4C:FC) [10:20:02:833]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=Rollback_Do_sqlPerfmon2.D20239D7_E87C_40C9_9837_E70B8D4882C2,Description=Removing performance counters,) <EndFunc Name='LaunchFunction' Return='0' GetLastError='0'> MSI (s) (4C:FC) [10:20:02:849]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=Rollback_Do_sqlPerfmon2.D20239D7_E87C_40C9_9837_E70B8D4882C2,ActionType=1281,Source=BinaryData,Target=Rollback_Do_sqlPerfmon2,CustomActionData=100Removing performance counters200000DTSPipelineC:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90DTSBinnDTSPERF.INI) MSI (s) (4C:FC) [10:20:02:849]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=Do_sqlPerfmon2.D20239D7_E87C_40C9_9837_E70B8D4882C2,Description=Installing performance counters,) MSI (s) (4C:FC) [10:20:02:849]: Executing op: CustomActionSchedule(Action=Do_sqlPerfmon2.D20239D7_E87C_40C9_9837_E70B8D4882C2,ActionType=1025,Source=BinaryData,Target=Do_sqlPerfmon2,CustomActionData=100Installing performance counters200000C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90DTSBinnDTSPERF.INIC:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90DTSBinnDTSPERF.HC:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90DTSBinnDTSPipelinePerf.dllDTSPipeline0DTSPipelinePrfData_OpenPrfData_CollectPrfData_Close) MSI (s) (4C:94) [10:20:02:864]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:WINDOWSInstallerMSI1683.tmp, Entrypoint: Do_sqlPerfmon2 <Func Name='LaunchFunction'> Function=Do_sqlPerfmon2 <Func Name='GetCAContext'> <EndFunc Name='GetCAContext' Return='T' GetLastError='0'> Doing Action: Do_sqlPerfmon2 PerfTime Start: Do_sqlPerfmon2 : Tue Jun 12 10:20:02 2007 <Func Name='Do_sqlPerfmon2'> <EndFunc Name='Do_sqlPerfmon2' Return='2' GetLastError='2'> PerfTime Stop: Do_sqlPerfmon2 : Tue Jun 12 10:20:02 2007 Gathering darwin properties for failure handling. Error Code: 2 MSI (s) (4C!F0) [10:23:46:381]: Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services -- Error 29528. The setup has encountered an unexpected error while Installing performance counters. The error is: The system cannot find the file specified.Error 29528. The setup has encountered an unexpected error while Installing performance counters. The error is: The system cannot find the file specified.
You can ignore this and it will complete the installation, but subsequently trying to patch with SP2 will fail on the same sections - Hotfix.exe crashes whilst attempting to patch Database Services, Integration Services and Client Components (3 separate crashes).
I've removed SQL Server 2005 elements and tried to re-install, but it's not improved the situation.
I installed SQL 2005 SP2 + ReportServices Add-in for Sharepoint (WSS 3.0). All it's OK until I try to grant database access in the Sharepoint Central Admin site.
I setup the Reporting Services Integration (Manage integration settings). I use the default SQL instance, I put the USERNAME and the PASSWORD of my ADMIN account in the ENTER CREDENTIALS windows.. When I click the "OK" button, I receive always the error ...
"A new member could not be added to a local group because the member has the wrong account type"
I installed SQL 2005 SP2 + ReportServices Add-in for Sharepoint (WSS 3.0). All it's OK until I try to grant database access in the Sharepoint Central Admin site.
I setup the Reporting Services Integration (Manage integration settings). I use the default SQL instance, I put the USERNAME and the PASSWORD of my ADMIN account in the ENTER CREDENTIALS windows.. When I click the "OK" button, I receive always the error ...
"A new member could not be added to a local group because the member has the wrong account type"
