Repadmin.exe & Replmon.exe

[hrbaban]

Hi . . .

I want to know , what is main mission and purpose of this command lines ?

How it work ?

what is its usage ?

Thanks .

[cluberti]

Replmon:

You can use ReplMon to do the following:

• See when a replication partner fails.

• View the history of successful and failed replication changes for troubleshooting purposes.

• View the properties of directory replication partners.

• Create your own applications or scripts written in Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) to extract specific data from Active Directory.

• View a snapshot of the performance counters on the computer, and the registry configuration of the server.

• Generate status reports that include direct and transitive replication partners, and detail a record of changes.

• Find all direct and transitive replication partners on the network.

• Display replication topology.

• Poll replication partners and generate individual histories of successful and failed replication events.

• Force replication.

• Trigger the Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC) to recalculate the replication topology.

• Display changes that have not yet replicated from a given replication partner.

• Display a list of the trust relationships maintained by the domain controller being monitored.

• Display the metadata of an Active Directory object's attributes.

• Monitor replication status of domain controllers from multiple forests.

Repadmin:

This command-line tool assists administrators in diagnosing replication problems between Windows domain controllers.

Administrators can use Repadmin to view the replication topology (sometimes referred to as RepsFrom and RepsTo) as seen from the perspective of each domain controller. In addition, Repadmin can be used to manually create the replication topology (although in normal practice this should not be necessary), to force replication events between domain controllers, and to view both the replication metadata and up-to-dateness vectors.

Repadmin.exe can also be used for monitoring the relative health of an Active Directory forest. The operations replsummary, showrepl, showrepl /csv, and showvector /latency can be used to check for replication problems.

Usually, the Knowledge Consistency Checker (KCC) manages the replication topology for each naming context held on domain controllers.

Basically, if you have AD replication-related problems between domain controllers, these are the tools you use to monitor replication and start troubleshooting.