Using MCMS Performance Counters

It seems MCMS has it’s own performance counters which could be installed on MCMS server itself and browsed by performance tool under control panel.

These MCMS performance counters should be installed when we installed the MCMS spa1. So, They already existed and you just don’t know.

However, there are some issues that you may not see these performance counters after the installation process. You can fallow the steps below to solve this issue:

1. Open the command window and switch to the directory path below:
   [MCMS install path] \ Server \ bin
2. Type the command below and press enter button:
   regsvr32 /i cmsperfcounters.dll
3. reboot server.
4. If you have installed Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 before then you can execute the “Exctrlst.Exe” tool to verify if the MCMS performance counters have installed successfully.
   The Exctrlst.Exe tool locate at the [Visual Studio Install path] \ Common7 \ Tools \ Bin \ winnt .
   Just execute the program and verify if there has a “CMS Performance Counters” in the middle text box. if you can see that then it means the installation process is successful.
5. Open [Control Panel] > [ Administrative Tools] > [Performance] and click the “Add” button on the window, then select “CMS Performace Counters“ at the “Performace Object” drop down menu. Now, you should see all the CMS related counters display in the list box. Enjoy!

About the meaning of every CMS Performance Counter, the MCMS help CHM file has detailed information. you can download it from Microsoft MSDN website.
Here is the link.

[re-post this article due to database crash.]