To monitor the status of Datareplicator on a supervised machine, you must start the Datareplicator agent with the hdsagtstart command.

When a machine is shut down, the Datareplicator agent terminates automatically. If you want to suspend status monitoring while keeping Datareplicator active for some reason, you can use the hdsagtstop command to terminate the Datareplicator agent.

For details, see the hdsagtstart or hdsagtstop command in Chapter 7. Command Syntax.

You execute the hdsagtstatus command to display the status of a Datareplicator agent. For details about the displayed information, see the hdsagtstatus command in Chapter 7. Command Syntax.

You use the hdsagtopt command to change Datareplicator agent settings. The command options determine the information to be changed, described as follows.

• This command changes the interval at which the status is monitored.
• This command changes the symbol display method.
• This command changes the first characters of the symbol names.
• The user specifies symbol names.

For details, see the hdsagtopt command in Chapter 7. Command Syntax.