This GUI tool enables administrators to view the low-level status of Active Directory replication, force synchronization between , view the in a graphical format, and monitor the status and performance of domain controller .
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 Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScripts) to extract specific data out of Active Directory and act on it.
- View a snapshot of the performance counters on the computer, and the 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 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 objects' attributes.
- Monitor replication status of domain controllers from multiple forests.
Note
- Installing ReplMon in a directory other than the default might result in errors. For more information, see Installing ReplMon.
ReplMon provides its own user interface. See ReplMon UI for more information.
For more information about deploying and using Active Directory, see the Active Directory Overview
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=1646) Web site.
The following are the system requirements for ReplMon:
- ReplMon must be installed on a computer running Windows XP Professionalr. The computer can be a domain controller, member server, member workstation, or standalone computer.
Files Required
- Comctl32.ocx
- Comdlg32.ocx
- Ctl3d32.dll
- Iadstools.dll – component DLL that hosts the functions used by ReplMon
- Iadstools.doc - documentation for IADsTools
- Replmon.exe
- Tabctl32.ocx
