Tip: Resetting New Performance Counters

Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:34 PMShreyS [MSFT]

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For those of you that have installed either the Beta 2 or Beta 2 RF releases of FSOCS, you may be aware of the new set of performance counters that are available for monitoring the status and health of the product. Depending on the type of testing you may be performing with the product, it is sometimes useful to be able to reset these counters to get a baseline set of numbers. By default, most of the new counters are never reset, however the "ResetCountersOnStart" registry key can be set to override this behavior. Upon startup, all of the new counters will be reset.

    1. Create a DWORD named "ResetCountersOnStart" under: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Forefront Server Security\Office Communications Server   [Software\Wow6432Node on 64-bit systems]
    2. Set the value to 1
    3. Start (or Restart) Forefront services and OCS

NOTE: Once this is done, consider whether this behavior is something that is desired each time the service starts up. If not, be sure to remove the new key or set the DWORD value to 0 to ensure that the behavior does not occur each time the service starts up. This behavior only applied to the new performance categories:
    Microsoft FSOCS Categorizer
    Microsoft FSOCS Health
    Microsoft FSOCS Sip Traffic
    Microsoft FSOCS Scan Filter

ShreyS
Forefront Server Security (DEV)
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