> Thanks Joe
>
> Yes, I will use installutill to install, in the mean i found the
> reason why
> it is not doing before, i am creating counters in application_start
> event,at
> this instance still impersonation has not yet applied, still it takes
> ASPNET
> user, so i moved my logic to session_start event.
> it worked well.
> Ram
>
> "Joe Kaplan (MVP - ADSI)" wrote:
>
>> This is a bad approach. You really ought to install things like
>> event log sources and perf counters during the initial deployment of
>> your application. Let an admin do that. Then, in your code, you just
>> instantiate your perf counters and write to them.
>>
>> You can do this easily by creating some PerformanceCounterInstaller
>> classes in your assembly and having an admin run installutil.exe on
>> your assembly. This way, your app can run as a normally privileged
>> user as well and you won't need to worry about hiding credentials.
>> It is a win/win across the board.
>>
>> Joe K.
>>
>> --
>> Joe Kaplan-MS MVP Directory Services Programming
>> Co-author of "The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services
>> Programming"
>> http://www.directoryprogramming.net
>> --
>> "Ram" <Ram@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:3BC06347-3189-4A04-A5C7-27599083443E@microsoft.com...
>>> I need to create custome performance counters for my asp.net
>>> application, these counters am creating in application_start event.
>>>
>>> to create this counters i used following setting in IIS and
>>> web.config file
>>>
>>> in IIS ---> Directory security tab--->
>>> 1) checked anonymus access and integrated windows authentication
>>> 2) settings in web.config --->
>>> <identity impersonate = "true" userName = "mycomputername\TestRam"
>>> password = "<password>" />
>>>
>>> <authorization>
>>> <allow users="*" />
>>> </authorization>
>>> <authentication mode="Windows" />
>>>
>>> with the above settings its works fine, TestRam is local Admin
>>>
>>> Now with my requirement I should not use plain password in my
>>> web.config,
>>> i
>>> decided to use this thorugh IIS setting
>>> in IIS ---> Directory security tab--->
>>> 1) checked anonymus access and integrated windows authentication
>>> 2) In anonymus section, i used following account as my anonymus
>>> account
>>> mycomputername\TestRam
>>> 3) settings in web.config --->
>>> <identity impersonate = "true" />
>>>
>>> <authorization>
>>> <allow users="*" />
>>> </authorization>
>>> <authentication mode="Windows" />
>>>
>>> if i run the application i will get " Reqired registry access not
>>> allowed"
>>>
>>> when i check identity account through "Envirnoment.UserName" i will
>>> see
>>> the
>>> above account and even with "Windowsidentity.GetCurrent().name"
>>> Even I gave explicitly full control permissions to above account in
>>> following registrys
>>>
>>> 1)HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSFT\WINDOWSNT\CURRENTVERSION\Perf
>>> lib 2) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Controlset001\Service as well as
>>> ControlSet002
>>>
>>> can anybody help me as it is due to move to my technical center
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Ram