Contents 5Contentsnovdocx (en) 11 July 2008About This Guide 17Part I Novell Cluster Services on NetWare 191 Introduction to GroupWise 7 and Novell Cluster Services on NetWare 212 Planning GroupWise in a NetWare Cluster 232.1 Meeting Software Version Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242.2 Installing Novell Cluster Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242.3 Planning a New Clustered Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252.4 Planning a New Clustered Post Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262.5 Planning a New Library for a Clustered Post Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272.6 Deciding Whether to Cluster-Enable the Shared Volumes Used by GroupWise . . . . . . . . . . . 272.7 Ensuring Successful Name Resolution for GroupWise Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292.8 Deciding How to Install and Configure the Agents in a Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312.8.1 Planning Secondary IP Addresses and Cluster-Unique Port Numbers for Agents in theCluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312.8.2 Determining Appropriate Failover Paths for the Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332.8.3 Deciding Where to Install the Agent Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342.8.4 Deciding Whether to Run the Agents in Protected Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362.8.5 Planning the NetWare Agent Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372.9 GroupWise Clustering Worksheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372.9.1 System Clustering Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372.9.2 IP Address Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402.9.3 Agent Clustering Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 Setting Up a Domain and Post Office in a NetWare Cluster 433.1 Preparing the Cluster for GroupWise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433.1.1 Ensuring Required Software Versions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433.1.2 Cluster-Enabling Shared Volumes for Use with GroupWise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433.1.3 Configuring Short Name Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443.2 Setting Up a New GroupWise System in a Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463.3 Creating a New Secondary Domain in a Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483.4 Creating a New Post Office in a Cluster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493.5 Installing and Configuring the MTA and the POA in a Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503.5.1 Installing the Agent Software in a Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513.5.2 Editing Clustered Agent Startup Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523.5.3 Configuring the GroupWise Volume Resource to Load and Unload the Agents . . . . 533.5.4 Setting Up New Instances of the Agents without Installing the Agent Software . . . . 573.6 Testing Your Clustered GroupWise System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593.7 Managing Your Clustered GroupWise System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603.7.1 Updating GroupWise Objects with Cluster-Specific Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603.7.2 Using Novell Remote Manager on NetWare 6.x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613.7.3 Knowing What to Expect in MTA and POA Failover Situations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643.8 What’s Next . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643.9 Clustering Quick Checklists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653.9.1 GroupWise System Quick Checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
