How to enable the Performance and Reliability Monitor?

[Michael Moser]

I was just discovering and playing a bit with Vista's Performance and Reliability Monitor.

To my dismay I had to realize that for some reason that monitor stopped recording about a year ago, i.e. the System Stability Chart shows data from the time I bought the machine until about a year ago but doesn't show any newer data. It could well be, that I inadvertently disabled some service or feature at that time.

How do I get this monitor back to life, i.e. what service or whatever do I have to (re-)enable to get obtain fresh data again?

Michael

 

[Q]

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I was just discovering and playing a bit with Vista's Performance and
Reliability Monitor.

To my dismay I had to realize that for some reason that monitor stopped
recording about a year ago, i.e. the System Stability Chart shows data from
the time I bought the machine until about a year ago but doesn't show any
newer data. It could well be, that I inadvertently disabled some service or
feature at that time.

How do I get this monitor back to life, i.e. what service or whatever do I
have to (re-)enable to get obtain fresh data again?

Michael

Check this
Track and Analyze System Stability
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd362384.aspx
Q

 

[Michael Moser]

Check this
Track and Analyze System Stability
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd362384.aspx
Q

OK. Thanks! As described in the referenced article I checked in the TaskScheduler and the RACAgent task is enabled and apparently runs regularly. Last runtime was a few minutes ago with a run result of 0x8007000D (no idea what that means...).

But why then does the Reliability Monitor's System Stability Chart only show me data between 11/28/2007 (which is about when I bought the machine) and 11/10/2008 (i.e. roughly half a year ago). Why are there no newer data visible. Does one have to generate or process the data before one can display them here? If I pop up the calendar in the upper right corner that calendar ends on Nov. 11th, 2008. So why did time end for the Reliability monitor at that date???

Michael

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

OK. Thanks! As described in the referenced article I checked in the TaskScheduler and the RACAgent task is enabled and apparently runs regularly. Last runtime was a few minutes ago with a run result of 0x8007000D (no idea what that means...).

But why then does the Reliability Monitor's System Stability Chart only show me data between 11/28/2007 (which is about when I bought the machine) and 11/10/2008 (i.e. roughly half a year ago). Why are there no newer data visible. Does one have to generate or process the data before one can display them here? If I pop up the calendar in the upper right corner that calendar ends on Nov. 11th, 2008. So why did time end for the Reliability monitor at that date???

Michael

Maybe the log reached a size limit.

There might be a configuration item somewhere that controls how big the log
is allowed to get, and what to do when it reaches that limit (start over,
roll old entries off, that sort of thing). I'm speculating, but I have seen
this sort of setting occasionally...

Or maybe you're looking at the log backwards - it may be sorted in reverse
from what you're thinking. I've made that sort of error occasionally...

 

[Michael Moser]

...
Maybe the log reached a size limit.

There might be a configuration item somewhere that controls how big
the log is allowed to get, and what to do when it reaches that limit
(start over, roll old entries off, that sort of thing). I'm
speculating, but I have seen this sort of setting occasionally...

That makes a lot of sense to me! So - of course - the next question:
Does anyone have an idea, where that log is and where/how one controls it?

Or maybe you're looking at the log backwards - it may be sorted in
reverse from what you're thinking. I've made that sort of error
occasionally...

Checked again, but it runs indeed between the two dates that I listed.

Michael

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

That makes a lot of sense to me! So - of course - the next question:
Does anyone have an idea, where that log is and where/how one controls it?


Checked again, but it runs indeed between the two dates that I listed.

Michael

I looked at the Performance and Reliability Monitor - actually I looked at
the Reliability and Performance Monitor, since that seems to be its name -
and saw that is has a help file and a few configuration items.

I was not willing to spend a lot of time with it, and it seemed fairly
opaque as far as configuring Data Collector Sets is concerned. Maybe that's
where you can look for assistance. Just a guess...