how to auto restart the merge agent

I have a merge replication, the merge agent job failed with:
step 2 :
could not retrieve generation information at the 'Subscriber'. NOTE: The
step was retried the requested number of times (10) without succeeding. The
step failed.
step 3:
The merge agent job failed. The merge process could not retrieve generation
information at the 'Subscriber'. NOTE: The step was retried the requested
number of times (10) without succeeding. The step failed. [SQLSTATE 42000]
(Error 14151). The step failed.
I am not sure what had caused the merge agent to fail but after I restarted
the merge agent , it automatically caught up. I would like to know if there
is a way to automatically re-start the merge agent after the system restored.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Wen Chang
Wen,
I'm not too sure what you mean by setting it off when the system gets
restarted. If you mean have it keep trying, then you could loop the steps in
the merge agent's job. Alternatively you could have it run on a schedule and
not continuously - eg once each minute.
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
(recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)