-> Snapshot agent failed with below error,

Date 8/12/2020 3:04:32 PM
Log Job History (JBPUB-PRIMARY-JBREPL-TranProducts-1)

Step ID 2
Server JBDIST-PRIMARY
Job Name JBPUB-PRIMARY-JBREPL-TranProducts-1
Step Name Run agent.
Duration 00:00:01
Sql Severity 0
Sql Message ID 0
Operator Emailed
Operator Net sent
Operator Paged
Retries Attempted 0

Message
2020-08-12 15:04:33.78 Microsoft (R) SQL Server Snapshot Agent
2020-08-12 15:04:33.78 [Assembly Version = 14.0.0.0, File Version = 14.0.3335.7 ((SQL17_RTM_QFE-CU).200613-0316)]
2020-08-12 15:04:33.78 Copyright (c) 2016 Microsoft Corporation.
2020-08-12 15:04:33.78 The timestamps prepended to the output lines are expressed in terms of UTC time.
2020-08-12 15:04:33.78 User-specified agent parameter values:
2020-08-12 15:04:33.78 ————————————–
2020-08-12 15:04:33.78 -Publisher JBPUB-PRIMARY
2020-08-12 15:04:33.78 -PublisherDB JBREPL
2020-08-12 15:04:33.78 -Publication TranProducts
2020-08-12 15:04:33.78 -Distributor JBDistributor
2020-08-12 15:04:33.78 -DistributorSecurityMode 1
2020-08-12 15:04:33.78 -XJOBID 0x40AB86AB011ECA4A899B7478D326C1AF
2020-08-12 15:04:33.78 ————————————–
2020-08-12 15:04:33.78 Connecting to Distributor ‘JBDistributor’
2020-08-12 15:04:33.86 The replication agent had encountered an exception.
2020-08-12 15:04:33.86 Source: Replication
2020-08-12 15:04:33.86 Exception Type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.ReplicationAgentException
2020-08-12 15:04:33.86 Exception Message: The snapshot could not be generated because the publisher is inactive.
2020-08-12 15:04:33.86 Message Code: 54057
2020-08-12 15:04:33.86

-> On the distributor server execute below command,

EXEC sp_helpdistpublisher

Check “Active” column in the output window and you will see value 0 for the publisher.

-> Execute below query to make it active,

EXEC sp_changedistpublisher  
@publisher = '<Publisher SQL Server Instance>'
,  @property = 'active'
, @value = 'true'
GO

EXEC sp_changedistpublisher  
@publisher = 'JBPUB-DR'
,  @property = 'active'
, @value = 'true'
GO

-> Start the snapshot agent and it will complete fine.

Thank You,
Vivek Janakiraman

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