DX Infrastructure Manager - ntperf doesn't start

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

After deploy ntperf probe to a Windows 2008 box, the ntperf64 is started ok, but ntperf is not. The ntperf log only show next message:

Sep  2 13:27:04:901 [2492] Controller: Max. restarts reached for probe 'ntperf' (command = ntperf.exe)

Environment

DX UIM 20.4.x / 23.4.x

Windows Server 2008

ntperf probe any version

Cause

After set loglevel 5 and logsize 100,000 in controller probe, and start the ntperf manually next is logged in controller.log:

Sep  3 13:36:39:405 [1088] 1 Controller: Probe 'ntperf' started (pid=3176)
...
Sep  3 13:36:40:403 [1088] 1 Controller: Process stopped (probe=ntperf, pid=3176) RET = -1073741515
...
Sep  3 13:36:41:402 [1088] 1 Controller: Probe 'ntperf' started (pid=2460) (restart 1)
....
Sep  3 13:36:42:088 [1088] 1 Controller: Process stopped (probe=ntperf, pid=2460) RET = -1073741515
Sep  3 13:36:43:804 [1088] 1 Controller: Probe 'ntperf' started (pid=4060) (restart 2)
...
Sep  3 13:40:05:248 [1088] 1 Controller: Probe 'ntperf' started (pid=4956) (restart 11)
...
Sep  3 13:40:06:028 [1088] 1 Controller: Process stopped (probe=ntperf, pid=4956) RET = -1073741515

After the 11th restart, the controller stop trying to start the probe.
The important here is the Return code: -1073741515
File System Error 1073741515, also known as error 0xC0000135, is associated with registry issues and missing dll files.

Resolution

To resolve the problem, please deploy (again, if it was already deployed) to this robot,

1. vs2017_vcredist_x64 
2. vs2017_vcredist_x86
3. After a successful deployment of these probes, attempt to start the ntperf probe again. This time it should start without issue.