I updated my date and time recently, as it had gone out, but I have lost my reliability monitor, and dont know how to get it going again. The performance bit works ok, but all info has been lost in the reliability, and it is not recording anything

Thank you Scott
I go into control panel, performance, then reliability. When it first happened the monitor went back to 2003, with a new score of ten, I got a tip about resetting RAC, and the date went all together, with a notice that nothing would appear, as you say, for 24 hoours. that was last week and nothing has appeared. cheers

Thank you, that takes me into the reliability and performance, which I can get from control panel,and is working, but if I click on reliability, i go in but it is not working, just the notice to tell me nothing may appear for 24 hrs

When I went to enable RAC it was already enabled and is set to run at start and every hour. I'm afraid I dont understand your commentsabout check services. I have never knowingly disabled UAC, but the last time i tried a command, it said i did not have permission, and I cant remember how to reenable that. I hope you like a challenge as you can see I am relatively new to this

You are doing fine. Most folks wouldn't know where to find the RAC scheduled task. For one thing, it's a hidden task and the default view is not to show them. Anyway, when you are in the Task Scheduler looking at the RACAgent task, click on the History tab. Has it been running successfully every hour since power on?

If there is no history, you can run the task manually. Right-click on it and select "Run", then check the history for the results. On my system, it is set to run under the LOCAL SERVICE user account, so your user permission is not required.

For the Services, I was a little vague on that because I don't know which services, if any, are required for reliability monitoring. Checking the status of the RACAgent task will tell you what you need to know. If there is a dependency on a service that is not running, it should say so in an error message.

So your RACAgent is running successfully? All of these 1437 events are information, not errors?

I think that the next thing for you to try is a RAC Reset as described in this article. You said above, "...I got a tip about resetting RAC". What was that tip? Hopefully, it's the same or similar to what is in this article, but if it's different that might be helpful.

On my Task Scheduler RACAgent, all of the settings are greyed out as well. Probably because the task is owned by Local Service.

I have only just managed to get on the site, problems somewhere.It is nowlate so I will leave it till tomorrow. Thank you for your help

I don't know exactly how it works. If each entry represents a day, then maybe it measures a certain block of time, such as 12:01:00 AM to 11:59:59 PM. Then you would need to wait more than 24 hrs to get the first result.

Well Scott, still nothing has appeared. Is there anything else we can try or have I lost it for good. Incidentaly, I notice if I go intodata Collection---Start up Event Trace Session, then an item called RAC_PS is disabled. Is that normal, Or not cheers

Thamk you, very interesting.I went into services as you suggest. Windows event log is enabled, performance logs was not started, so I have started it. I cant find alert services.Your book as you say is interesting. i thought it a bit over my head at first, but I am getting there. we shall see if performnce logs enablement makes any difference cheers. I have just noticed that performance logs and alert services are one item