Sure, so long as you understand the caveats:
1) A DC doesn't initiate replication wholesale so much as it does
initiate replication on a particular connection object (a CO is the
"connection" so to speak between two DCs from a replication
perspective).
2) Replication is inbound from a CO perspective....when  you say that
replication took place over a given CO that means it was inbound from
dc1 to dc2.
3) We typically talk about replication not only on a per CO basis but
also on a per naming context perspective.

You can run repadmin /showreps against a DC to see the status of its
inbound replication objects as well as replication notifications of
partners. That's what many people do as a first view of a specific DC.

My favorite way of viewing replication uses a switch that, if memory
serves me correctly, was added in 2k03's repadmin: repadmin /showrepl *
/csv
That lets me see the status of inbound replication on all COs for all
NCs on all DCs in the forest.

For a single naming context, repadmin /showutdvec is really nice too,
but that doesn't show each CO, it just shows a replication "summary" of
sorts from the perspective of a given DC, taken from the up to dateness
vector. This command isn't as interesting until forest functional level
is >=1 as we don't time-stamp the utdv until we attain that level of
functionality.

~Eric


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Adner
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 2:54 PM
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Subject: [ActiveDir] Last Replication Occurrence

I know repadmin /showmeta will tell me when an object was last updated,
but
is there a switch (or other command) to just show when replication was
last
initiated on a Dc, regardless if anything was actually replicated or
not?

I know I can enable more logging for the NTDS service, but I'm curious
if
there's an easier method available. Thx

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