Knowing What To Expect In Webaccess Failover Situations; Updating The Webaccess Agent Configuration File (Commgr.cfg) - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - INTEROPERABILITY Manual

36.4.2 Knowing What to Expect in WebAccess Failover
Situations
The failover behavior of the MTA for the WebAccess 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.
36.4.3 Updating the WebAccess Agent Configuration File
(commgr.cfg)
As part of installing WebAccess, the WebAccess Agent configuration file (
in the following subdirectory:
domain\wpgate\webac80a
It is also automatically copied to the following Web server subdirectory:
drive:\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\webac80a\commgr.cfg
because the domain is on the shared disk of a resource group, and it is changed in the following file:
drive:\novell\webaccess\commgr.cfg
on the node where the WebAccess Application is currently running. However, the other nodes in the
Web server possible owners list are not currently available for update. Therefore, you must
manually copy the updated
each node in the Web serve possible owners list.
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commgr.cfg
file to the
drive:\novell\webaccess
302.
) is created
commgr.cfg
subdirectory on