What is replmonexe?

Answer 1

The Replmon utility was introduced with Windows Server 2000 as a Support Tools utility. The utility worked on both 32 bit and 64 bit operation systems.

In Windows Server 2003 the utility was only available in the 32 bit version of the Support Tools.

The preferred tool for managing and troubleshooting replication is the Repadmin.exe utility for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. With that said, the Windows Server 2003 SP2 Support Tools can be installed on a 32 or 64 bit computer and will allow you use Replmon

Replmon.exe is the Active Directory Replication Monitor

This tool enables administrators to view the low-level status of Active Directory replication, force synchronization between domain controllers, view the topology in a graphical format, and monitor the status and performance of domain controller replication.

ReplMon can be used to do the following:

See when a replication partner fails.

Display replication topology.

To view the history of successful and failed replication changes for troubleshooting purposes.

To view the properties of directory replication partners.

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

To view a snapshot of the performance counters on the computer, and the registry configuration of the server.

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

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

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

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

To Monitor replication status of domain controllers from multiple forests.

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

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

To Force replication.

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