Getting Over Replmon

re: Getting Over Replmon

Jason Fare — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:32:53 GMT

The only thing missing is the fact that Replmon will email when there are replication failures and SCOM's management packs don't allow you to put in an override for ignoring replication failures from a specific DC (due to a lag site/etc.). That tool needed an update anyway... I guess I'll write something in C# to imitate the functions of replmon but mine won't require outlook to be installed.

re: Getting Over Replmon

igorlopasovsky — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:36:03 GMT

Thank you very much for answer Ned ... I know netdom.exe utility, I just thought that repadmin.exe has similar parameter for FSMO roles

Thank you again, igor

re: Getting Over Replmon

NedPyle [MSFT] — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:52:46 GMT

Beyond what you found already in repadmin.exe, the tool I've always used over teh years is NETDOM.EXE:

netdom query fsmo

Schema master srv1.contoso.com

Domain naming master srv3.contoso.com

PDC srv2.contoso.com

RID pool manager srv3.contoso.com

Infrastructure master srv3.contoso.com

re: Getting Over Replmon

igorlopasovsky — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:11:06 GMT

Hello Ned,

first, thank you very much for this article, nice job.

I have a question and I can't find any reasonable solution anywhere, maybe you will know.

Replmon has a perfect feature - it's able to show you FSMO holders. I can't find it in repadmin. The only solution I found is this:

repadmin /showrepl fsmo_type:dc=domain,dc=com

fsmo_type could be fsmo_schema, fsmo_dnm, fsmo_im, fsmo_pdc, fsmo_rid

Is there any better solution for this? Thank you very much for answer and great articles.

Igor

re: Getting Over Replmon

NedPyle [MSFT] — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:05:38 GMT

Oh snap, I forgot to link that! Thanks for the great catch Mike, I'm updating the article now.

- Ned

re: Getting Over Replmon

Mike Kline — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:00:17 GMT

Another good article Ned, repadmin should definitely be in everyone's toolkit.

Not sure if you or members of your team were involved in the reapadmin whitepaper published last fall but it was one of my top 5 all-time white papers from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c6054092-ee1e-4b57-b175-5aabde591c5f&displaylang=en

Have a safe and happy July 4th weekend...no DFSR entries this Saturday :)

Talk to you later

Mike

re: Getting Over Replmon

NedPyle [MSFT] — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:24:52 GMT

:-D

Thanks very much Lain.

- Ned

re: Getting Over Replmon

Lain — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:36:37 GMT

On-topic: Preaching to the converted, here. I've loved replmon since early Server 2003 (when it got some more options with bite), once I wrapped my head around the various commands.

Off-topic: As much as I enjoy reading your articles, I'd be lieing if I didn't confess that part of the attraction is seeing what new middle name you've come up with per article! And although you're stretching my memory this time around, I think we still got that pilot here in Aus.

I may work with directory services, but clearly, simple things amuse this mind!

Cheers,

Lain