Data Collection job collection_set_2_upload failed

Question

We had a standalone server which was SQL server 2000 R2. I had configued the Data Collection job and uploded the data into our Management Data Warehouse.  It had worked fine.  One week ago,  the standalone server was re-built and
then I found that all 4 jobs didn't work.
collection_set_2_collection
collection_set_2_upload
collection_set_3_collection
collection_set_3_upload
I re-configured both Management Data Warehouse and Data Collection. Now the two collection_set_2_collection and collection_set_3_collection worked fine.  However the two collction_set_2_upload and collection_set_3_upload didn't work with an error "the
step did not generate any output".  I cleaned up all DataCollectorCache files on the standalone server but the error stayed.
Any idea?  Thank you for any kind of suggestion.
Charlie He

Answer 1

Hi Charlie,
Based on my understanding, you configured Data Collection job. Then two upload jobs didn't work with an error "the step did not generate any output". And error also existed after cleaning up Data Collector cache files.
New data cannot be uploaded to the Management Data Warehouse database when one or more Data Collector cache files are corrupted. The corruption may be caused for one of the following reasons:
Data Collector encountered an exception.
The disk runs out of free space while Data Collector is writing to a cache file.
A firmware or a driver problem occurs.
So I suggest you double check if Data Collection cache files are cleaned up completely. For more information, please refer to this kb:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2019126.
If issue persists exist, please check the agent job history to find the error log around the time issue caused. It would be better if you could provide detail error information for our further analysis. About how to check agent job history, please refer
to this link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181046(v=sql.110).aspx.
Best regards,
Qiuyun Yu