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This message indicates that the Platform Performance Gatherer (PPG), a background service monitor responsible for gathering performance metrics, such as CPU, memory, disk, is unable to properly collect metrics. The most common reason the PPG fails for WMI elements is corrupted or unavailable Windows performance counters. When that is the case, the string, "IEnumVARIANT::Next", often will appear in these two locations: the Service Monitor Outages report and the <uptime_dir>/logs/uptime.log file.
- Service Monitor Outages report
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