The state of a Replication Agent instance indicates its current operational condition, and determines which administrative tasks you can perform.
Generally, there are only two reasons to change the state of a Replication Agent instance:
To perform certain administrative or maintenance procedures (change the state from Replicating to Admin)
To restore normal replication processing (change the state from Admin to Replicating), either after an administrative or maintenance procedure, or after recovery from an error
To change the state of the Replication Agent instance from Replicating to Admin, you can use either the quiesce or suspend command. See “Stopping replication in the Replication Agent”.
See the Replication Agent Reference Manual for more detailed information about the quiesce and suspend commands.
To change the state of the Replication Agent instance from Admin to Replicating, you can use the resume command. See “Starting replication in the Replication Agent”.
See the Replication Agent Reference Manual for more detailed information about the resume command.
