Error starting service

[francoisbouchard]

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]

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

•     Start-Service <<<<  PerfTap
  

  • CategoryInfo : OpenError: (System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController:ServiceController) [Start-Service], ServiceCommandException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : StartServiceFailed,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartServiceCommand

[zeugfr]

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]

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]

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"?> <configuration> <configSections> <section name="perfTapCounterSampling" type="PerfTap.Configuration.CounterSamplingConfiguration, PerfTap" /> <section name="perfTapPublishing" type="PerfTap.Configuration.MetricPublishingConfiguration, PerfTap" /> </configSections> <perfTapCounterSampling sampleInterval="00:00:01"> <definitionFilePaths> <definitionFile path="CounterDefinitions\system.counters" /> </definitionFilePaths> <!-- <counterNames> <counter name="\network interface(*)\bytes total/sec" /> </counterNames> --> <counterNames /> </perfTapCounterSampling> <perfTapPublishing port="443" server="http://myserver.com" /> </configuration>