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Iristyle / PerfTap

A Windows PerfMon monitoring service that pushes data to a graphite server
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Error starting service #6

Open francoisbouchard opened 11 years ago

francoisbouchard commented 11 years ago

I am getting an error when starting PerfTap service. The event logs shows error about attribute 'hostName' - see below. I am using localhost as I have a local statsd server on this box (ruby statsd) https://github.com/fetep/ruby-statsdserver

Log Name: Application Source: TaskService Date: 3/5/2013 5:07:33 PM Event ID: 0 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: blabla Description: Service cannot be started. System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Unrecognized attribute 'hostName'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive. (C:\Program Files\PerfTap\PerfTap.WindowsServiceHost.exe.Config line 18) at System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.EvaluateOne(String[] keys, SectionInput input, Boolean isTrusted, FactoryRecord factoryRecord, SectionRecord sectionRecord, Object parentResult) at System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.Evaluate(FactoryRecord factoryRecord, SectionRecord sectionRecord, Object parentResult, Boolean getLkg, Boolean getRuntimeObject, Object& result, Object& resultRuntimeObject) at System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.GetSectionRecursive(String configKey, Boolean getLkg, Boolean checkPermission, Boolean getRuntimeObject, Boolean requestIsHere, Object& result, Object& resultRuntimeObject) at System.Configuration.BaseConfigurationRecord.GetSectionRecursive(String configKey, Boolean getLkg, Boolean checkPermission, Boolean getRuntimeObject, Boolean re...

sudocodersandy commented 9 years ago

hello everyone i cant install this PerfTap on my laptop can someone help me i am trying with powershell what is this error??

The transacted install has completed. Start-Service : Service 'PerfTap - Synchronize PerfMon to StatsD compatible Graphite listener (PerfTap)' start failed. At line:223 char:16

zeugfr commented 9 years ago

On the exe provided, it does not uses "hostname" key but "server" key in configuration. The "format" key is not recognized too (defaults to StatSite, can't be modified to StatsD).

dave2ym commented 9 years ago

Hello, Had the same problem. After correcting the problem I get another error.

Faulting application name: PerfTap.WindowsServiceHost.exe, version: 0.1.1.0, time stamp: 0x4f14e926 Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.3.9600.17415, time stamp: 0x54504ade Exception code: 0xe0434352 Fault offset: 0x00014598 Faulting process id: 0x137d8 Faulting application start time: 0x01d0fd18772f1a49 Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\PerfTap\PerfTap.WindowsServiceHost.exe Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\KERNELBASE.dll Report Id: be19198b-690b-11e5-80e9-b8ca3a64e53b Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID:

This is on a Windows 2012 R2 Standard. Any ideas?

Recodify commented 8 years ago

It looks like the documentation for non default settings is a bit wrong. I had the same problem as above, but fixed it by editing the config C:\Program Files\PerfTap\PerfTap.WindowsServiceHost.exe.config to look like:

`<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

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