This test helps you to determine whether/not the Snapshot agent is contributing to a slowdown (if any) in the replication process. This test, at pre-configured intervals, monitors how quickly the agent delivers transactions to the distribution database. Latencies in creation of snapshot files or in recording synchronization details in the Distributor are thus revealed.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the MsSqlRepSnapMonTest.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

• In the INSTANCE text box, enter the name of a specific Microsoft SQL instance that is to be monitored. The default value of this parameter is "default". To monitor a Microsoft SQL instance named "CFS", enter this as the value of the INSTANCE parameter.

• If the value chosen against ISPASSIVE is YES, then the server under consideration is a passive server in a cluster. No alerts will be generated if the server is not running. Measures will be reported as "Not applicable' by the agent if the server is not up.

• Once the necessary values have been provided, clicking on the UPDATE button will register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with "$" indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to "xyz" and $port will be changed to "80" when configuring a test.