Error Stopping IISAdmin

rkarthikeyan5

Hello
I downloaded the trial version of the latest ANTS profiler.
My machine is Windows 2000, .NET 1.1 and IIS 5.0

When I go through the wizard, I give the following information.
Select ASP.NET web application hosted in IIS
PATH:
http://application url
.NET framework version : 1.1
IIS version : IIS 5
Username : ASPNET
Password : Automatically Detected

When I click Finish - It prompts for restarting the IIS, and when I give YES, IT shows the following error

THERE WAS A PROBLEM STARTING THE PROFILER
ERROR STOPPING IISADMIN
PLEASE CHECK THE EVEN LOG FOR MORE DETAILS

and the Event log has

Unable to start profiler - exception details System.Exception: Error stopping IISAdmin ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

Server stack trace: 
   at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress)
   at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Connect(EndPoint remoteEP)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.RemoteConnection.CreateNewSocket(EndPoint ipEndPoint)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.RemoteConnection.CreateNewSocket()
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.SocketCache.GetSocket(String machinePortAndSid, Boolean openNew)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientTransportSink.SendRequestWithRetry(IMessage msg, ITransportHeaders requestHeaders, Stream requestStream)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientTransportSink.ProcessMessage(IMessage msg, ITransportHeaders requestHeaders, Stream requestStream, ITransportHeaders& responseHeaders, Stream& responseStream)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.BinaryClientFormatterSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg)

Exception rethrown at [0]: 
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
   at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.ProfilingSession.ServiceStatusCallback(Object sender, StatusEventArgs e)
   at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.ProfileIISController._1(StatusEventArgs )
   at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.ProfileIISController._5()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Server stack trace: 
   at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.ProfileIISController._5()
   at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.ProfileIISController.StartProfilingIIS(String currentUserName, String& url, WebApplicationDefinition appDef)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink._PrivateProcessMessage(IntPtr md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.PrivateProcessMessage(RuntimeMethodHandle md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext)

Exception rethrown at [0]: 
   at RedGate.Profiler.Engine.ProfilingSession.StartProfiler()
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink._PrivateProcessMessage(IntPtr md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.PrivateProcessMessage(RuntimeMethodHandle md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.AsyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg, IMessageSink replySink)

Exception rethrown at [1]: 
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.EndInvokeHelper(Message reqMsg, Boolean bProxyCase)
   at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RemotingProxy.Invoke(Object NotUsed, MessageData& msgData)
   at System.Windows.Forms.MethodInvoker.EndInvoke(IAsyncResult result)
   at _5._4(IAsyncResult )

I have gone through some previous posts and they all point to the port being used issue. Could you please assist me in figuring out this issue?

Thanks in advance

rkarthikeyan5

I created the 'log' folder under the installation directory and found these two files once the error occurred.

IISProfileHostLog - has the following

12/28/2007 4:07:59 AM	StartProfilingIIS currentUserName SERVERNAME\Administrator, url http://xxxxx/xxxx, .NET 2.0 OnePointOne, IIS5
12/28/2007 4:07:59 AM	Parse IIS metabase
12/28/2007 4:07:59 AM	InitServiceList
12/28/2007 4:07:59 AM	StartIIS
12/28/2007 4:07:59 AM	StopServicesInOrder
12/28/2007 4:08:01 AM	Error, unable to stop IISAdmin	[ProfileIISController.StopServicesInOrder()]

ANTS Profiler has the following -

12/28/2007 4:06:08 AM	ANTSProfilerLog initialized
12/28/2007 4:06:08 AM	PID = 1064
12/28/2007 4:06:08 AM	Log file name = ANTSProfilerLog1064.txt
12/28/2007 4:06:08 AM	OS version = Microsoft Windows NT 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4
12/28/2007 4:06:08 AM	Machine name = SERVERNAME
12/28/2007 4:06:08 AM	User name = Administrator
12/28/2007 4:06:08 AM	PARAMHOST - Listening on port 8084
12/28/2007 4:06:09 AM	PARAMHOST - Listening on port 8084, channel registered
12/28/2007 4:06:12 AM	EditProjectClosingWizard start
12/28/2007 4:06:12 AM	EditProjectClosingWizard start
12/28/2007 4:06:12 AM	Couldn't find WebDev at: C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\WebDev.WebServer.exe
12/28/2007 4:06:13 AM	Using IIS Version 5
12/28/2007 4:06:13 AM	Using default .NET 2.0 credentials
12/28/2007 4:06:13 AM	Using default .NET 2.0 credentials
12/28/2007 4:06:13 AM	About to show wizard
12/28/2007 4:07:54 AM	Wizard dialog returned
12/28/2007 4:07:56 AM	UI Start profiling
12/28/2007 4:07:56 AM	ENGINE - Core2.dll found in regisry
12/28/2007 4:07:58 AM	ENGINE Start profiling performance of ASP.NET web application http://xxxxx/xxxxx
12/28/2007 4:07:58 AM	ENGINE The profiler is enabled
12/28/2007 4:07:58 AM	TRANSFER - Waiting for pipe connection from core
12/28/2007 4:07:58 AM	Starting IIS Profile host - checking if service available
12/28/2007 4:07:58 AM	Found ANTS Profiler 3 Service, attempting start
12/28/2007 4:07:58 AM	Service started. Checking port available
12/28/2007 4:07:58 AM	WaitForPort on address 127.0.0.1, port 8086
12/28/2007 4:07:58 AM	Port is accepting connections - service now running
12/28/2007 4:07:59 AM	ENGINE - Managed to hook into status updates from IIS Profile Host
12/28/2007 4:08:01 AM	ENGINE - Caught Exception in ProfilingSession: Error stopping IISAdmin

Brian Donahue

Hi and thanks for posting. I suspect the problem could be Windows Management Instruemtation which is used to programatically start and stop the services, so checking that the WMI service is running may help.

If it's not that, it could be a routing problem in a computer with two network interface cards and the request is going to an interface that doesn't have the NETBIOS protocol enabled.

Something is causing Windows to explicitly terminate connections to the computer when a netbios/WMI connection is requested.