Changing Monitoring Properties

The replication agent error status is also reflected in the console tree by an icon appearing at each agent and each node under Replication Monitor. To have the icon correctly reflecting the status of the replication agents, you must refresh the node manually or enable automatic refreshing.

You can use the Replication Monitor Properties dialog box to:

• Enable or disable automatic refreshing for the console tree or details pane.
• Specify the refresh period in seconds for the console tree or details pane.
• Specify the inactivity threshold for restarting replication agents.
• Specify the Windows NT Performance Monitor file setting for replication performance.

You can also customize the columns displayed in the details pane when the selection is on a publication or an agent view. Use the Select Columns dialog box to select which columns to display.

You can use the Select Columns dialog box to select columns to display when the focus is on any of these nodes:

• A transactional, snapshot, or merge publication
• Snapshot Agent
• Log Reader Agent
• Distribution Agent
• Merge Agent

To change replication monitoring properties

To select columns for monitoring views