sql agent icon

  • Can anybody tell me what the following icon means against the SQL Server Agent in EM. I'll describe as best as I can:

    Its the usual pc tower picture, but instead of the usual green arrow or red square at the bottom, I'm getting what looks like a window (its very small, I can't tell exactly).

    When I see this icon, I can't see or change the Service Startup Account under properties and EM doesn't seem to know if the service is stopped or started (I get the option to do either - although both fail if I try them)

    Any help would be appreciated

    Regards

    Andy

  • pause maybe? Can you connect with EM and check?

    Steve Jones

    sjones@sqlservercentral.com

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones

  • They're not paused, because from the EM from the server they're displaying the usual green arrow. I'm seeing this icon from the EM on my PC. Could it be that the connection to that server is slow and my client doesn't know if the agent is running or not? I'll investigate this further.

  • On investigating further, its related to the "The SQL Server xxxx is not known to be running" message. For every server that I get this message , I get this strange agent icon. I think it means that my client and server are in different domains - is there anything I can do about this?

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