MRxSmb Event ID 3034 - When Checking Performance Counter

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timn
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MRxSmb Event ID 3034 - When Checking Performance Counter

Post by timn »

I've actually got this problem fixed already but I'm trying to understand
why my fix worked.

One of our SQL server was seeing numerous errors in the System event log. The error was:

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MRxSmb  Event ID 3034
The redirector was unable to initialize security context or query context attributes. 
Turns out this was being caused by tests run by AHM (via RMA on the SQL server).

The tests were performance monitor checks of CPU utilization. The "check counter" value was set to:

\\WGSQL13\Processor(2)\% Processor Time

When I changed this to simply

\Processor(2)\% Processor Time

the errors stopped. The odd thing is that I've got 2 other SQL servers configured exactly like this one and using \\Servername\countername syntax does not cause a problem.


Also, I'm checking a different perf counter on the same machine,

\\WGSQL13\Memory\% Committed Bytes In Use

and it does not cause the MRxSmb errors.

Any thoughts? (No rush, as I've said, I've got it working)
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Post by KS-Soft »

Do you have installed Norton Internet Security? It can be side effect

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Alex
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Post by timn »

Negative
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Post by KS-Soft »

I found article on www.microsoft.com that describes this problem (or may be similar problem?)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;826902

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Alex
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