Planning The Monitor Agent Installation; Setting Up Groupwise Monitor In A Linux Cluster; Installing And Configuring The Monitor Agent On Each Node In Your Cluster - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - INTEROPERABILITY Manual

17.2.6 Planning the Monitor Agent Installation

Aside from the cluster-specific issues discussed in the preceding sections, the considerations
involved in planning to install the Monitor Agent are the same in a clustering environment as for any
other environment. Review the installation instructions in
"Installing GroupWise
Monitor Installation Summary
install the Monitor Agent in your cluster.
IMPORTANT: Do not install the Monitor Agent software until you are instructed to do so in
Section 17.3, "Setting Up GroupWise Monitor in a Linux Cluster," on page
17.3 Setting Up GroupWise Monitor in a Linux
Cluster
GroupWise Monitor depends on a Web server, Apache in particular on Linux. However, Apache is
not typically installed in a cluster and the Monitor Application is not supported in a cluster.
Therefore, these instructions do not include that task.
Section 17.3.1, "Installing and Configuring the Monitor Agent on Each Node in Your Cluster,"
on page 204
Section 17.3.2, "Configuring the Monitor Agent Cluster Resource to Load and Unload the
Monitor Agent," on page 207
17.3.1 Installing and Configuring the Monitor Agent on Each
Node in Your Cluster
The Monitor Agent must be installed on each node in the Monitor Agent failover list
Agent Clustering Worksheet item
therefore not installed on nodes in the cluster.
"Running the Monitor Installation Program on the Preferred Node" on page 204
"Running the Monitor Agent Installation Program on Subsequent Nodes" on page 205
"Configuring the Monitor Agent Web Console for SSL" on page 206
"Testing the Monitor Agent Installation on Each Node" on page 206
Running the Monitor Installation Program on the Preferred Node
1 Make sure that the Monitor Agent software is available in the software distribution directory
you created in
Cluster," on page
2 Mount the
Monitor Agent Installation program can access a domain database.
3 From the software distribution directory, start the Installation program and select Configure
GroupWise for Clustering.
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Monitor" in the GroupWise 8 Installation
Sheets" to record the types of planning information you need as you
4). The Monitor Application is installed to your Web server and is
Step 6 in Section 14.1, "Setting Up a New GroupWise System in a Linux
137.
GroupWise partition (Monitor Agent Clustering Worksheet item
"Installing the Linux Monitor
Guide. Use the "GroupWise
204.
2) where the
Agent" in
(Monitor