Selecting The Monitor Agent Partition And Secondary Ip Address; Determining An Appropriate Failover List For The Monitor Agent; Determining Cluster Resource Information For The Monitor Agent - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - INTEROPERABILITY Manual

17.2.3 Selecting the Monitor Agent Partition and Secondary IP
Address
As with the MTA and the POA, the Monitor Agent needs a secondary IP address that remains the
same no matter which node in the cluster it is running on. You can associate the Monitor Agent with
the domain that was accessed during installation or with any other domain, so that they fail over
together, or you can associate the Monitor Agent with its own shared partition, so that it fails over
independently of any domain.
MONITOR CLUSTERING WORKSHEET
Under Item 1: GroupWise Partition for Monitor
Monitor Agent.
17.2.4 Determining an Appropriate Failover List for the Monitor
Agent
By default, a GroupWise partition
organized in ascending alphanumeric order. Only one node at a time can have a particular
GroupWise partition mounted and active. If a GroupWise partition's preferred node fails, the
partition fails over to the next node in the failover list. You should customize the failover list for
each GroupWise partition based on the
As with the other agents, you need to decide which nodes in the cluster would be appropriate
locations for the Monitor Agent to fail over to. You must install the Monitor Agent software on all
of the nodes where you want the Monitor Agent to be able to fail over. For a review of failover lists,
see Section 13.6.2, "Determining Appropriate Failover Lists for the Agents," on page
describes the issues in the context of planning MTA and POA installations.
MONITOR CLUSTERING WORKSHEET
Under Item 4: Monitor Agent Failover
17.2.5 Determining Cluster Resource Information for the
Monitor Agent
A cluster resource is a shared
that can function successfully anywhere in the cluster. Cluster resources include the GroupWise
agents and the Messenger agents. When using the Configure GroupWise for Clustering option, the
GroupWise Installation program needs to know the mount point for the
it can access a domain database in order to gather information about agents to monitor. The
Installation program also needs to know the secondary IP address of the GroupWise partition.
MONITOR AGENT CLUSTERING WORKSHEET
Under Item 5: Cluster Resource
GroupWise partition where the domain and post office will be located.
Agent, specify the secondary IP address for the
is configured to have all nodes in the cluster in its failover list,
fan-out-failover
List, list the nodes that you want in the Monitor Agent failover list.
partition, secondary IP address, application, service, Web server, etc.,
Information, list the mount point and secondary IP address for the
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principle.
GroupWise partition
132, which
where