I am trying to setup Performance Counters on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server and have successfully setup the counters. The problem is that I need to manually start the counters each time the server is restarted.
I found a neat trick to add the "logman" command to the registry to start the counters automatically, however, this command does not work because the command requires elevation.
Is there a way to elevate this command? Please note that as I have the command in the registry, I am unable to just simply run the CMD program as Administrator. I am happy to consider any suggestions or work arounds, so long as they are simple and work!
Possibly you could use srvany.exe from the windows 2003 server resource kit, and launch Logman as a service.
There are several ways you might accomplish this - start the service with credentials, or use logman command line credentials