Issues remoting to perfmon

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brainwood picture brainwood · Mar 23, 2011 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

Hey all, I'm having trouble with PerfMon on one system out of fifteen in a development environment. Accessing it from the local machine is fine but connecting to it remotely throws a "Cannot connect" error.

Each machine is running Win 2003, is connected to the same domain and I have admin rights to all.

There were some services set to disabled which are normally enabled by default so I've set these to match the other machines on the network - still have the same problem.

Any ideas?

Cheers

**Update**

Ok - I found it was the remote registry service not running correctly causing the above error; Once that was enabled Perfmon is now telling me "No such interface supported".

If I connect through Computer Management, it fails the first time, but the second attempt is successful. Connecting through perfmon fails everytime.

Answer

brainwood picture brainwood · Mar 23, 2011

Fixed - for anyone that runs into this issue, hopefully this can help you..

Enabling Remote Registry fixed my first problem.

The second issue, "No such interface supported" turned out to be permissions issues within the registry. Apparently the machine had some pretty obscure permissions set to specific registry keys a long time ago, which are now irrelevant.

Resetting permissions with secedit fixed it up - 

secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb /verbose

Perfmon counters are now accessible remotely.

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