Active Roles 7.4.1 - Solutions Guide

General response - Script

This rule uses a script to check the responsiveness of the Administration Service by periodically issuing a simple request to the Service. By default, this rule is scheduled to run every 10 minutes. The schedule can be adjusted by managing rule properties in the Operations Manager console.

General response - Alert

This rule generates an alert when the General response script detects that the Administration Service is unavailable.

Possible causes of the alert include:

• Administration Service is not running
• Administration Service is not configured properly
• Administration Service has encountered a critical error
• Administration database is unavailable

Replication monitoring - Script

This rule uses a script to check the status of Active Roles replication. The script is intended to run on the Publisher Administration Service so as to verify the replication status of the Publisher and Subscribers. By default, this rule is scheduled to run every 30 minutes. The schedule can be adjusted by managing rule properties in the Operations Manager console.

Replication monitoring - Alert

This rule generates an alert when the Replication monitoring script detects that the Active Roles replication status indicates a replication failure.

Possible causes of the alert include:

• The SQL Server Agent service is not started on the computer running the Publisher SQL Server
• The Snapshot Agent or a Merge Agent is not started at the Publisher SQL Server
• The Merge Agent uses incorrect credentials when connecting to the Publisher or a Subscriber
• The Snapshot Agent uses incorrect credentials when connecting to the Publisher

For more information, and details on how resolve replication-related problems, refer to the “Troubleshooting” section in the Replication: Best Practices and Troubleshooting document, which is part of the Active Roles product documentation set.