Hi All,
I'm playing with a Peer to Peer configuration in SQL 2008 with the following setup Site A (Primary Site) has A Publisher, a remote distributor and multiple subscribers. Same setup at site B. The plan with this setup is to only update site A. I got it up and running, but now I want to test the loss of the primary site. Actually there are two scenarios that I want to test.
1) The loss of the distributor.
2) The loss of the Primary publisher.
For Test Scenario 1 I was planning to stop the SQL Server Agent to simulate the loss of the distributor at site A. Is this a sufficient test?
For Test 2 I was going to try to delete the Primary database and see if replication still works between the publisher and subscribers at Site B.
Do these sound like viable tests or am I a moron :-)
TIA
Mike
PS The reason I'm asking (rahter than just going ahead and try it) is because right now for some reason I when I right click on the SQL Agent Start, Stop, and Restart are greyed out and I don't have the access to RDP to the server to shut services down that way. I have to put arequest in to have the service stopped. LOL
MikeG