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2.5 Planning a New Library for a Clustered Post
Office
The considerations involved in planning a new library in a clustering environment are essentially the
same as for any other environment. You can plan a library for a clustered post office by following
the standard instructions provided in
Administration Guide
and filling out the
Worksheet". Then provide the library information on the System Clustering Worksheet.
SYSTEM CLUSTERING WORKSHEET
Under
Item 14: Library
Location, mark where you want to create the library's document storage area.
If the document storage area will be located outside the post office directory structure, specify a user
name and password that the POA can use to access the volume where the document storage area
will reside.
IMPORTANT: Do not create the new library until you are instructed to do so in
Up a Domain and Post Office in a NetWare Cluster," on page
2.6 Deciding Whether to Cluster-Enable the
Shared Volumes Used by GroupWise
Cluster-enabling the shared volumes where domains and post offices reside greatly simplifies
GroupWise administration. If you are creating a new GroupWise system, you might also want to
cluster-enable shared volumes for the GroupWise administration snap-ins to ConsoleOne
the GroupWise software distribution directory so that these locations are always available within the
cluster. To review the concept of cluster-enabled shared volumes, see the applicable section of
clustering documentation for your version of NetWare, as listed in
GroupWise 7 and Novell Cluster Services on NetWare," on page
The advantages of cluster-enabling GroupWise volumes include:
Drive mappings always occur through the virtual server associated with the cluster-enabled
volume, rather than through a physical server. This guarantees that you can always map a drive
to the domain or post office database no matter which node it is currently located on.
The GroupWise snap-ins to ConsoleOne always work no matter which node is running
ConsoleOne.
Cluster-enabling the domain volume and installing the GroupWise agents to this volume
guarantees that the GroupWise snap-ins to ConsoleOne can always find the configuration files
that they need to access.
When you rebuild a domain database or a post office database, you do not need to determine
which node the database is currently located on.
Help desk personnel do not need to be trained to determine where GroupWise is running before
they connect to a domain to create a new GroupWise user.
When you cluster-enable a volume, additional eDirectory objects are created:
"Creating and Managing
"Basic Library
Worksheet" or the
Libraries" in the
GroupWise 7
"Full-Service Library
Chapter 3, "Setting
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21.
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