Sample Counters Sample Counters Starts a job to continuously Pause and Resume a collection, creating a periodic sampling of metrics. If wait_time = 0, the background job is stopped and collection is Paused. Format: status = $$Sample^PERFMON(wait_time,sample_time) Parameters: wait_time — number of seconds between collections (default = 10) sample_time — number of seconds a collection should last (default = 1) Status Codes: Status code Description 1 Successful -2 Monitor is not running -8 Sample job already running