New icon appears after restarting Distribution/Merge agents - mean

Hello,
All of a sudden, Sql Server 2000 Replication has started failing for
Transaction and Merge Replication on our system. I have been restarting the
Distribution and Merge Agents and after Refresh, the Red X goes away (for a
little while). Something obviously is out of synch. But on the last restart
of the agents (which is actually the first time I restarted the Merge agent -
as previously only the Distribution Agent had the red x), now there is this
blue twisting Arrow inside of a small circle icon attached to the Replication
Monitor Icon, Publishers Icon, Agents Icon, and Distribution Icon. When I
click on the distribution icon, in the Right pane of Enterprise Manager, the
<Multiple Publications> icon also has the little circle with the blue
twisting arrow icon attached to it.
Is there any significance to this icon? What does it mean? It is not red
and is not an X, so it does not look that scary, but I am sure it means
something I need to worry about. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Rich
I just did a Refesh on the Replication Monitor and the strange new icon has
disappeard, and there is no Red X icon (what a relief). But I am still
curious what is the meaning of this icon of a little circle with the twisting
blue arrow attached to the Replication Monitor Icon and the others. This
strange icon was attached to the lower right corner of the main icon.
"Rich" wrote:

> Hello,
> All of a sudden, Sql Server 2000 Replication has started failing for
> Transaction and Merge Replication on our system. I have been restarting the
> Distribution and Merge Agents and after Refresh, the Red X goes away (for a
> little while). Something obviously is out of synch. But on the last restart
> of the agents (which is actually the first time I restarted the Merge agent -
> as previously only the Distribution Agent had the red x), now there is this
> blue twisting Arrow inside of a small circle icon attached to the Replication
> Monitor Icon, Publishers Icon, Agents Icon, and Distribution Icon. When I
> click on the distribution icon, in the Right pane of Enterprise Manager, the
> <Multiple Publications> icon also has the little circle with the blue
> twisting arrow icon attached to it.
> Is there any significance to this icon? What does it mean? It is not red
> and is not an X, so it does not look that scary, but I am sure it means
> something I need to worry about. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
|||That blue arrow means retrying.
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"Rich" <Rich@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I just did a Refesh on the Replication Monitor and the strange new icon has
> disappeard, and there is no Red X icon (what a relief). But I am still
> curious what is the meaning of this icon of a little circle with the
> twisting
> blue arrow attached to the Replication Monitor Icon and the others. This
> strange icon was attached to the lower right corner of the main icon.
>
> "Rich" wrote:
|||Thank you.
"Hilary Cotter" wrote:

> That blue arrow means retrying.
> --
> Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
> http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
> Looking for a FAQ on Indexing Services/SQL FTS
> http://www.indexserverfaq.com
> "Rich" <Rich@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
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