Article ID: 297230 - Last Review: October 31, 2006 - Revision: 2.2

HOW TO: Use the Replication Monitor to Determine the Operations Master and Global Catalog Roles

View products that this article applies to.

This article was previously published under Q297230

SUMMARY

This article describes how to use the Active Directory Replication Monitor (ReplMon.exe) tool to determine the servers that hold the operations master roles in a forest as well as the domain controllers and global catalog servers for the forest. The five operations master roles that are defined in Active Directory are:

Schema master
Domain naming master
Relative identifier (RID) master
Primary domain controller (PDC) emulator
Infrastructure master

There is a very quick method to determine which servers in the forest hold these roles by using Active Directory Replication Monitor.

The Setup program that installs Active Directory Replication Monitor (and other useful support tools) is available on the Windows 2000 Server CD-ROM under the \Support\Tools\Setup.exe folder. When this tool is installed, you can start it if you click Start, point to Programs, click Support Tools, click Tools, and then click Active Directory Replication Monitor.

Back to the top

Determine the Operations Master Role Holders

Start the Active Directory Replication Monitor tool.
Right-click Monitored Servers, and then add one or more servers by using the wizard.
Right-click the servers, and then click Properties.
Click the FSMO Roles tab.
The domain controllers that hold all operations master roles are now displayed under the "Owner" column.
To test the connectivity to each of the operations master role holders, click Query to the right of each role.

Back to the top

Determine Global Catalog Servers

Start the Active Directory Replication Monitor tool.
Right-click Monitored Servers, and then add one or more servers by using the wizard.
Right-click the servers, and then click Show Global Catalog Servers in Enterprise.

Back to the top

REFERENCES

For additional information about a detailed explanation of the operations master roles, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

197132 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/197132/EN-US/ ) Windows 2000 Active Directory FSMO Roles

For additional information about other methods to determine operations master role holders, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

234790 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/234790/EN-US/ ) How to Find FSMO Role Holders (Servers)

Back to the top