How to use ADPLUS to _ONLY_ get MiniDumpOnSecond - iis

Question

For a production Win2003 web server, I'd like to be able to allways log minidumps whenever the w3wp.exe processes crash...I've read the documentation for ADPLUS, and have xcopy-deployed it to the production web server, and have started adplus.exe from the command line as follows:
adplus.exe -crash -MiniOnSecond -NoDumpOnFirst -pmn w3wp.exe -o C:\Dumps
This does log the "MiniOnSecond," but it is also logging full dumps on first--and I don't want those (they're big fat files, and don't have what I need). Has anyone found a way to get the "-NoDumpOnFirst" flag to actually work? Additionally, I'd like this behavior every time the box is rebooted--How can that be accomplished without running a batch file on-reboot? I've read about Windows Error Reporting (WER), and it is trivial to impliment this behavior on a Win2008R2 server--how to make that work on a 2003 server?
I've read the documentation for both ADPLUS and WER--but I need help with the actually command line and/or registry settings to make capturing minidumps simple on a Win 2003 Server. Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

I played with the configuration file that can be attached with the -c flag...since i'm mostly interested in catching errors in my custom COM components, these settings create minidumps without fulldumps, and ignore CLR crashes, and don't full-dump on IISReset.
To have this run all the time, create a scheduled task. From an admin prompt:
schtasks /create /tn "Crash Dump Monitor w3wp" /tr "\"C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows (x86)\adplus.exe\" -c \"C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows (x86)\adplus_w3wp.xml\"" /sc ONSTART
Save this file as C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows (x86)\adplus_w3wp.xml
:
<ADPlus Version="2">
<!--
PURPOSE: Capture mini crash dumps in IIS 6.0. Do not capture full dumps
INSTRUCTIONS: Save this file in the same location as adplus.exe (usually C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows (x86))
COMMAND LINE:
"C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows (x86)\adplus.exe" -iis -c "C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows (x86)\adplus_w3wp.xml"
-->
<Settings>
<RunMode>Crash</RunMode>
<OutputDir>C:\Dumps</OutputDir>
<ProcessToMonitor>w3wp.exe</ProcessToMonitor>
</Settings>
<Exceptions>
<All>
<Actions1>VOID</Actions1>
<Actions2>VOID</Actions2>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</All>
<Exception Code="av"><!-- Access Violoation -->
<Actions1>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions1>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="ch"><!-- InvalidHandle -->
<Actions1>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions1>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="ii"><!-- Illegal Instruction -->
<Actions1>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions1>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="dz"><!-- IntegerDivide -->
<Actions1>VOID</Actions1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="c000008e"><!-- FloatingDivide -->
<Actions1>VOID</Actions1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="iov"><!-- IntegerOverflow -->
<Actions1>VOID</Actions1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="lsq"><!-- InvalidLockSequence -->
<Actions1>VOID</Actions1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="sov"><!-- StackOverflow -->
<Actions1>VOID</Actions1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="aph"><!-- Application_hang -->
<Actions1>VOID</Actions1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="dm"><!-- Data_misaligned -->
<Actions1>VOID</Actions1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="gp"><!-- Guard_page_violation -->
<Actions1>VOID</Actions1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="ip"><!-- In_page_IO_error -->
<Actions1>VOID</Actions1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="isc"><!-- Invalid_system_call -->
<Actions1>VOID</Actions1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="sbo"><!-- StackOverflow -->
<Actions1>VOID</Actions1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="epr"><!-- Process_Shut_Down -->
<Actions1>Log;Time;</Actions1>
<ReturnAction1>Q</ReturnAction1>
</Exception>
<!--
<Exception Code="clr">
<Actions1>VOID</Actions1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="*">
<Actions1>VOID</Actions1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>
<Exception Code="clr">
<Actions1>VOID</Actions1>
<Actions2>Log;Time;Stack;MiniDump;EventLog</Actions2>
<ReturnAction1>GN</ReturnAction1>
<ReturnAction2>GN</ReturnAction2>
</Exception>-->
</Exceptions>
</ADPlus>
Can anyone improve on this? Have I missed any important crashing exceptions?