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ivanmp
Asked: 2011-09-27 15:53:00 +0800 CST

Windows Performance Monitor keeps trying to add unwanted counters

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I have been running a Data Collector Set for SQL Server for a week, and everything was going just fine until I tried clicking on Action -> Save Current View and now it always tries to add the following counters automatically to my reports:

\\MYSERVER\Provedor de Dados .NET para SqlServer(sqllogship[1296])\NumberOfInactiveConnectionPools
\\MYSERVER\Provedor de Dados .NET para SqlServer(sqllogship[1296])\NumberOfNonPooledConnections
\\MYSERVER\Provedor de Dados .NET para SqlServer(sqllogship[1296])\NumberOfPooledConnections
\\MYSERVER\Provedor de Dados .NET para SqlServer(sqllogship[1624])\NumberOfInactiveConnectionPools
\\MYSERVER\Provedor de Dados .NET para SqlServer(sqllogship[1624])\NumberOfNonPooledConnections
\\MYSERVER\Provedor de Dados .NET para SqlServer(sqllogship[1624])\NumberOfPooledConnections
\\MYSERVER\Provedor de Dados .NET para SqlServer(sqllogship[1744])\NumberOfInactiveConnectionPools
\\MYSERVER\Provedor de Dados .NET para SqlServer(sqllogship[1744])\NumberOfNonPooledConnections
\\MYSERVER\Provedor de Dados .NET para SqlServer(sqllogship[1744])\NumberOfPooledConnections
\\MYSERVER\Provedor de Dados .NET para SqlServer(sqllogship[2008])\NumberOfInactiveConnectionPools

And this causes a lot of annoying error messages (one for each counter listed above) saying:

One or more of the selected counters are already present and won't be added again.

How do I prevent those counters from being automatically (re-) added everytime I select a report?

Thanks.

windows-server-2008 sql-server performance monitoring perfmon

1 Answers

  1. You have created a Current View. As such, whenever you open a report in Performance Monitor it will attempt to add those performance counters to any log you open. If they already exist you'll receive this error message.

    To fix this problem do the following

    1. Open a saved report and clear the error messages
    2. Right click on one of your performance counters select "Remove All Counters"
    3. Hit OK when it asks if you are sure you want to remove all added counters
    4. Click "Action"
    5. Click "Save Current View"

    Problem Fixed.

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