Editing Clustered Agent Startup Files - Novell GROUPWISE 8 - INTEROPERABILITY Manual

3 Start the Agent Installation program, following the steps provided in
Agent Software" in
4 Install the NetWare agents, keeping in mind the following cluster-specific details:
Use the NetWare Agent Clustering Worksheet that you filled out in
NetWare Agent Installation" on page 34
process.
In the Installation Path dialog box, be sure to browse through the drive you mapped in
Step 1 to the location you chose in
for Clustering.
In the Domains / Post Offices dialog box, click Add for each domain and post office that
the agents will service. In the Path to Database field, be sure to browse through the drive
you mapped in
HTTP Port field, specify the cluster-unique HTTP port planned for each agent (under
Agent Clustering Worksheet items 4 and
In the Installation Complete dialog box, do not select Launch GroupWise Agents Now.
You will configure the agents to launch in protected mode later.
5 If you need to install the agents to
5a Repeat Step 4, mapping new drives as needed.
5b If you marked Yes for Consolidate Multiple Startup Files on GroupWise Volume? (under
Agent Clustering Worksheet item
file to the planned location, then delete all agent startup files, as well as the
grpwise.ncf
grpwise.ncf
The
grpwise.ncf
will use this information later when you create the load and unload scripts for the volume
resources.
6 Continue with Editing Clustered Agent Startup

3.5.2 Editing Clustered Agent Startup Files

By default, the Agent Installation program creates agent startup files in the agent installation
directory. Each MTA startup file is named after the domain it services, with a
POA startup file is named after the post office it services, with a
Because you selected Configure GroupWise Agents for Clustering during installation, the Agent
Installation program set the MTA
format:
volume:\directory
so that the startup files are valid no matter which node the agents are currently running on.
The Agent Installation program also adds a
GroupWise clients detect the clustering environment and try more persistently to reconnect in a
failover, failback, or migration situation.
One additional manual modification of POA startup files is required for robust functionality in a
clustering environment. Uncomment the
the GroupWise volume where the post office is located
"Installing GroupWise Agents" in the
Step 2
Step 1 above to the domain directory or the post office directory. In the
sys:\system
1), copy one complete set of agent startup files and the
file, from the
sys:\system
file includes a
load
/home startup switch and the POA
/cluster
/ip startup switch and provide the secondary IP address of
Setting Up a Domain and Post Office in a NetWare Cluster
"Installing the NetWare
GroupWise 8 Installation
to fill in the fields during the agent installation
above. Also select Configure GroupWise Agents
7).
on multiple nodes in the cluster:
directories to avoid future confusion.
command for each instance of each agent. You
Files.
extension.
.poa
/home
startup switch to POA startup files to ensure that
(Agent Clustering Worksheet item
Guide.
"Planning the
extension. Each
.mta
startup switch using the
7). This
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