Knowing What To Expect In Webaccess Failover Situations; Updating The Webaccess Agent Configuration File (Commgr.cfg) - Novell GROUPWISE 7 - INTEROPERABILITY GUIDE Manual

Recording Cluster-Specific Information about the WebAccess Agent
With the contents of the WebAccess Agent domain still displayed:
1 Right-click the WEBAC70A object, then click Properties.
2 Click GroupWise, then click Identification.
3 In the Description field, record the secondary IP address of the cluster-enabled WebAccess
Agent domain volume and the cluster-unique port numbers used by the WebAccess Agent.
This information appears on the WebAccess Agent console, no matter which node in the cluster
it is currently running on.
4 Click OK to save the WebAccess Agent information.
5 Continue with
5.4.2 Knowing What to Expect in WebAccess Failover
Situations
The failover behavior of the MTA for the WebAccess Agent domain is the same as for an MTA in a
regular domain. See
The WebAccess Application caches users' credentials on the node where it is running. Therefore, if
that node fails, or if the WebAccess Application migrates to a different node, the cached credentials
are lost. Consequently, the user needs to restart the WebAccess client in order to re-authenticate and
re-establish the credentials.
If the WebAccess Agent fails over or migrates, the user receives an error message that the
WebAccess Agent is no longer available. However, after the WebAccess Agent starts in its new
location, the WebAccess Application passes the cached user credentials to the WebAccess Agent
and the user reconnects automatically without having to re-authenticate.
As with the MTA and the POA, migration of the WebAccess Agent takes longer than failover.
However, the WebAccess Agent restarts quickly so that users are able to reconnect quickly.
5.4.3 Updating the WebAccess Agent Configuration File
(commgr.cfg)
As part of installing WebAccess, the WebAccess Agent configuration file (commgr.cfg) is
created in the following subdirectory:
domain\wpgate\webac70a
It is also automatically copied to the following Web server subdirectory:
sys:\novell\webaccess
If you change WebAccess agent configuration information (for example, if you change its ip
address), the information is changed in the following file:
domain\wpgate\webac70a\commgr.cfg
because the domain is on a cluster-enabled volume, and it is changed in the following file:
sys:\novell\webaccess\commgr.cfg
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Knowing What to Expect in MTA and POA Failover
"Knowing What to Expect in MTA and POA Failover Situations" on page
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