PublisherMonitor.EnumDistributionAgentSessions Method

Returns information about Distribution Agent sessions.

Namespace: Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication
Assembly: Microsoft.SqlServer.Rmo (in microsoft.sqlserver.rmo.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Function EnumDistributionAgentSessions ( _
    agentName As String, _
    sessionDuration As Integer, _
    returnOnlyErrorSessions As Boolean _
) As DataSet

public DataSet EnumDistributionAgentSessions (
    string agentName,
    int sessionDuration,
    bool returnOnlyErrorSessions
)

public:
DataSet^ EnumDistributionAgentSessions (
    String^ agentName, 
    int sessionDuration, 
    bool returnOnlyErrorSessions
)

public DataSet EnumDistributionAgentSessions (
    String agentName, 
    int sessionDuration, 
    boolean returnOnlyErrorSessions
)

public function EnumDistributionAgentSessions (
    agentName : String, 
    sessionDuration : int, 
    returnOnlyErrorSessions : boolean
) : DataSet

Parameters

• agentName
  A String value that specifies the name of the Distribution Agent job. You can use the SynchronizationAgentName property of the TransSubscription object to obtain this value.

• sessionDuration

• returnOnlyErrorSessions
  A Boolean value that specifies whether to return information only on sessions that resulted in an error or on all sessions. If true, only error sessions are returned. If false, all sessions are returned.

Return Value

A DataSet object that contains the following columns.

Column	Data type	Description
runstatus	Int32	The running status: 1 = Start 2 = Succeed 3 = In progress 4 = Idle 5 = Retry 6 = Fail
start_time	String	Date and time of last agent execution.
time	String	Date and time that the session was logged.
comments	String	Message text logged by the agent.
duration	Int32	Elapsed time of the session, in seconds.
delivery_rate	Single	Average number of commands delivered per second.
delivery_latency	Int32	Latency, in milliseconds, between the transaction entering the distribution database and being applied to the Subscriber.
(No column name)	Not applicable	Internal use only.
delivered_transactions	Int32	Total number of transactions delivered in the session.
delivered_commands	Int32	Total number of commands delivered in the session.
average_commands	Int32	Average number of commands per transaction delivered in the session.
action_count	Int32	Number of agent log messages recorded in the session.
error_id	Int32	The ID of the error in the MSrepl_errors (Transact-SQL) system table. Use the EnumErrorRecords method to return detailed information about an error.

Remarks

You should commit any property changes to the PublisherMonitor object before calling this method because properties of this object may need to be loaded if they have not been loaded already.

The EnumDistributionAgentSessions method can only be called by members of the db_owner or replmonitor fixed database roles on the distribution database.

This namespace, class, or member is supported only in version 2.0 of the .NET Framework.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Microsoft Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Platforms

Development Platforms

For a list of the supported platforms, see Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2005.

Target Platforms

For a list of the supported platforms, see Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2005.

See Also

Reference

PublisherMonitor Class
PublisherMonitor Members
Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication Namespace

Other Resources

How to: Programmatically Monitor Replication (RMO Programming)