Setting Up Your Messenger System In A Cluster; Planning The Messenger Agent Installation - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - INTEROPERABILITY Manual

11.1.4 Planning the Messenger Agent Installation

Aside from the cluster-specific issues discussed in the preceding sections, the considerations
involved in planning to install the Messenger agents are the same in a clustering environment as for
any other environment. Review
the "Novell Messenger
Installation
the Messenger System Worksheet:
For Item 3: Installation Path
If you are installing the Messenger agents to each node in the cluster, use
If you are installing the Messenger agents to a Messenger volume, use
where volume is the name of the Messenger volume from
Messenger Administration
Under
If you are installing the Messenger agents to each node in the cluster, use the cluster IP
address from
If you are installing the Messenger agents to a Messenger volume, specify the Messenger
volume IP address from
Clustering Worksheet.
Under
Yes. This adds the /cluster switch to the agent startup files. The /cluster switch tells the
Messenger agents to use the virtual server name of the cluster or the Messenger volume rather
than the specific server name in pathnames obtained from agent object properties in Novell
eDirectory
no matter which node it is currently running on. This applies to the agents' working directory,
queue directory, log file directory, and so on.
Under
If you are installing the Messenger snap-in to ConsoleOne to an administrator
workstation, use the location where ConsoleOne is already installed (typically
c:\novell\consoleone\version_number
If you are installing the Messenger snap-in to ConsoleOne to a shared volume, use
volume:\directory
from
Worksheet and directory is typically
Continue with
11.2 Setting Up Your Messenger System in a
Cluster
You should have already reviewed
on page 113
the "Novell Messenger
instructions for the installation location you have chosen:
Section 11.2.1, "Installing to Each Node in the Cluster," on page 117
Section 11.2.2, "Installing to a Messenger Volume," on page 117
116 GroupWise 8 Interoperability Guide
"Planning Your Novell Messenger
Worksheet" in
Guide. Transfer the following information from the Messenger Clustering Worksheet to
on the Messenger System Worksheet:
Item 12: Server Address
Item 3: Cluster Identification
Item 9: Shared Volume for Messenger Agents
Item 13: Configure Agents for Clustering?
or from startup switches. This enables the Messenger agents to access the location
TM
Item 14: Admin Configuration
, where volume is the name of the Messenger administration volume
Item 7: Shared Volume for Messenger Administration
Setting Up Your Messenger System in a
Section 11.1, "Planning Your Messenger System in a Cluster,"
and filled out the Section 11.3, "Messenger Clustering Worksheet," on page 121
Worksheet" in the
"Installing a Novell Messenger
on the Messenger Clustering Worksheet.
on the Messenger System Worksheet:
on the Messenger Clustering Worksheet.
on the Messenger System Worksheet, mark
on the Messenger System Worksheet:
).
.
\public
Cluster.
"Messenger 2.0 Installation
System", then print and fill out
System" in the Messenger 2.0
sys:\system
volume:\system
Item 9: Shared Volume for
on the Messenger
on the Messenger Clustering
Guide". Follow the
.
,
and