Comments on: Monitoring, Starting, and Stopping Perfmon Performance Counter Logs using VBScript

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:55:05 +0000

Hi Tim,
a bit of a long time ago since you made that script.
i tried running it on my desktop, but it gave me errors
(line: 21, char 1, object not a collection, code: 800A01C3, source: microsoft VBScript runtime error)

i am running an x64 bit version of windows 7.
However, i get it to run on any x86 environment.

Do you know which variable is not recognised in x64 environments? Any help is much appreciated…!!!

Regards, Michael

By: ElMehdi

ElMehdi — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:10:53 +0000

hi,
thank you for your script.
I’m automating the collect of perf data for servers in a domain, so this saves me a huge time.
i’ll post the result to my blog
regards,

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:20:31 +0000

Yes, copy it, paste it in to a text file and save it as PerfMonMon.vbs

Then, copy it to each server (do this with one server first, just to make sure you have it right). Once it’s on the server, create a new scheduled task (in Control Panel) and configure it to run ever 5 minutes (even if no users are logged on) and run the script (PerfMonMon.vbs).

also, make sure to edit the line above where it says strExchangeServer = “yourmailgateway” if you want it to email you

By: Iman

Iman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:59:59 +0000

Thanks Tim,
But i am really zero knowledge on script can you let me specify where i need to put server name or can get a CSV file where list of servers will be there ? And also let me know how to put this script in server.
Like copy the contents and paste in text file ?

Pls guide …

Iman

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:52:12 +0000

The script here will work just fine for that. Run it as a Scheduled Task that fires every 5 minutes – when the server comes up, the task will fire – it will attempt to start the logs that still aren’t running next time it fires (5 minutes later).

Comment out line 58 (the SendEmail line) if you don’t care to receive emails when it starts logs – but for the first few times, it’s good to let it email you so you can understand what logs are starting the first time and which ones are still having difficulties starting.

By: Iman

Iman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:29:23 +0000

Hi Tim,
We do have almost 40 citrix server, i need to start conter logs when system start up, automatic. Though i created a batch file and start counter logs on start up using logman command but almost half of the server it is unable to do same . Pls write a VBscript for me so that i can implement on my environment .

Thanks a lot in advance .

Iman
Server Eng- Ocwen