Planning The Agent Services; Planning The Windows Agent Installation - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - INTEROPERABILITY Manual

Even if you choose to install the agents to the
store the agent startup files on shared disks with the domains and post offices. The significant
advantage of this approach is that you only have one startup file to modify per agent.
AGENT CLUSTERING WORKSHEET
Under Item 1: Agent Installation
shared disk with a domain or post office, or to each node in the cluster. If necessary, specify where the
agent startup files will be stored.
Under Item 2: Domain Name, transfer the domain name, shared disk, and directory from the System
Clustering Worksheet to the Agent Clustering Worksheet.
Under Item 5: Post Office Name, transfer the post office name, shared disk, and directory from the
System Clustering Worksheet to the Agent Clustering Worksheet.

33.8.3 Planning the Agent Services

In a Microsoft cluster, the MTA and POA must be set up as service resources. A service resource for
a GroupWise agent must include the following information:
Name: The name by which the agent service will be listed in the resource group (for example,
MTA Service or POA Service)
Possible Owners: The list of nodes in the cluster to which the GroupWise agent can fail over
(the same as the possible owners of the resource group to which the agent service belongs)
Resource Dependencies: Other resources in the resource group that must be online before the
GroupWise agent can start on a new node (for example, the Group IP Address resource and the
Physical Disk resource where the domain or post office directory is located)
AGENT CLUSTERING WORKSHEET
Under Item 3: MTA Service
resource dependencies.
Under Item 6: POA Service
resource dependencies.

33.8.4 Planning the Windows Agent Installation

Aside from the cluster-specific issues discussed in the preceding sections, the considerations
involved in planning to install the GroupWise Windows agents are the same in a Microsoft cluster as
in any other environment. Review
"GroupWise Agent Installation Summary
GroupWise 8 Installation Guide
POA.
Fill out the Windows Agent Worksheet.
c:\grpwise
Location, mark whether you will install the agent software to the
Resource, specify the MTA service resource name and list any possible
Resource, specify the POA service resource name and list any possible
"Planning the GroupWise
Sheet" in
for each location where you will install the Windows MTA and/or
directory of multiple nodes, you can still
Agents", then print and fill out the
"Installing GroupWise Agents" in the
Planning GroupWise in a Microsoft Cluster 287