Planning The Messenger Agent Installation - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - INTEROPERABILITY Manual

Planning the Messenger Agents on a Shared Disk
If you do not anticipate a large Messenger archive, you can use one Messenger shared disk. If you
anticipate archiving a large number of messages so that the Messenger archive grows very large, you
might want to have a separate Messenger shared disk for the Archive Agent and the archive
database. The steps in this section cover setting up the Messenger agents on a single shared disk.
MESSENGER CLUSTERING WORKSHEET
Under Item 4: Resource Group for Messenger
resource group, the physical disk and share name for mapping to it, the agent service names, and the
nodes in the cluster where the Messenger resource group can fail over.
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41.1.4 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 Worksheet" in
Installation Guide. Transfer the following information from the Messenger Clustering Worksheet to
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 shared disk, use
drive is the shared disk from
Messenger Clustering Worksheet.
Under Item 12: Server Address
If you are installing the Messenger agents to each node in the cluster, use the cluster IP
address from Item 1: Cluster Identification
If you are installing the Messenger agents to a shared disk, specify the Messenger resource
group IP address from
Clustering Worksheet.
Under Item 13: Configure Agents for Clustering?
No. This applies to the Messenger Agents running with Novell Cluster Services
Microsoft cluster.
Under Item 14: Admin Configuration
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 disk, use
drive:\directory
Administration
c:\novell\consoleone\version_number
Continue with Setting Up Your Messenger System in a
Agents, plan the network name and IP address of the
Installation.
"Planning Your Novell Messenger
"Installing a Novell Messenger
on the Messenger System Worksheet:
Item 4: Resource Group for Messenger Agents
on the Messenger System Worksheet:
Item 4: Resource Group for Messenger Agents
on the Messenger System Worksheet:
, where drive is the shared disk from
on the Messenger Clustering Worksheet and directory is typically
System", then print and fill out
System" in the
drive:\novell\nm
on the Messenger Clustering Worksheet.
on the Messenger System Worksheet, mark
).
Item 6: Resource for Messenger
.
Cluster.
Implementing Messenger in a Microsoft Cluster 337
Messenger 2.0
.
c:\novell\nm
where
on the
on the Messenger
, not in a
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