Two Minute Drill: The New MPS Reports

re: Two Minute Drill: The New MPS Reports

bdesmond — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:38:30 GMT

I haven't had a need to run this in a long time, but, didn't it used to be the case that it was just a self extracting file and you launched a batch script or something along that line to do the collection?

It seems like a pretty big leap to be requiring changes to the software load on a system now in order to do data collection. I've worked with many an enterprise customer who haven't got a single 2003 server (out of thousands) with .Net2 on it because they have no need for it, for example.

re: Two Minute Drill: The New MPS Reports

v.rajeesh — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:05:50 GMT

Hi CC,

What if i want to run this tool on the Windows 2k8 Core machine with a default configuration or if I dont want to install the .Net Framework due to business constraints ?

re: Two Minute Drill: The New MPS Reports

Bill — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:55:52 GMT

We use the reports frequently for data collection from production machines at customer sites. A .NET and Powershell requirement is definitely a huge obstacle to overcome just to get the diagnostic data. Bummer.

re: Two Minute Drill: The New MPS Reports

Vincent Yim — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:44:00 GMT

Be very careful with this April'09 version of MPSReports, as it will set your powershell execution policy to restricted. If you run this version on Exchange 2007 servers, you will lock yourself out of the Exchange management shell and exchange cmdlets will fail to run if called by any scripts (such as daily backup scripts). To mitigate, immediately after running mpsreports, you need to run "set-executionpolicy remotesigned" to get the system's execution policy back to its default state.

re: Two Minute Drill: The New MPS Reports

Thomas Dietrich — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:33:53 GMT

I've been using the new MPS Reports tool for collecting and sending data to Microsoft. We've worked to create a single batch file to perform all the necessary data capture, including a netmon capture, dcdiag, netdiag, cluster, stopping perfmon and collecting the counter data, and then running MPS Reports. Through some work I've got all the MPS files extracted and ready to run on all the servers we want to analyze.

Now, I'm trying to find a way to run the mpsrwiz.exe executable silently with pre-defined variables on these servers. I've already edited my category.config file to auto-select the categories. My goal is to completely eliminate the wizard so that the user no longer has to click "I Accept", Next, This Computer, Next, Next, Save to Disk, Select Location, Finish. It would seem that there must be some command switches for the mpsrwiz.exe program since it uses the %MPS_CATEGORY_CONFIG% variable for defining the input file and then the /ResultPath switch for defining the temporary storage location for the output results.

Can anybody help me with a list of the command switches? It would be great to finalize full automation of this data capture process.

Thanks,

Tom

re: Two Minute Drill: The New MPS Reports

web tasarım — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:10:03 GMT

Your explanation about the program was great, thanks