1. Advisor.com Consultant's Corner: A trip down Gateway Lane Author Gregg A. Hinchman Company Hinchman Consulting Session Number

2. Advisor.com Introduction, Outline  Introduction Speaker A bit of Business  GWIA Best Practices Redundant/Highly Available Design  WebAccess Best Practices Redundant/Highly Available Design  GroupWise Exchange Gateway Best Practices  Summary

3. Advisor.com Introduction, Speaker  Gregg A. Hinchman Self-Unemployed Consultant, www.HinchmanConsulting.com Self-Unemployed Consultant, www.HinchmanConsulting.com 12+ years of GroupWise® Experience 12+ years of GroupWise® Experience 6 years of Clustering experience 6 years of Clustering experience Author: Author:  “Success with Clustering GroupWise 7” www.TayKratzer.com Co-Author: Co-Author:  “Success with GroupWise Document Management” GroupWise Coolsolutions Articles GroupWise Coolsolutions Articles GroupWise Advisor Magazine Articles GroupWise Advisor Magazine Articles

4. Advisor.com Introduction, A bit of Business  Topic We will discuss Best Practices for implementing GWIA, WebAccess and Exchange Gateways. We will discuss Best Practices for implementing GWIA, WebAccess and Exchange Gateways.  Format Discussion will be led with supporting examples given. Discussion will be led with supporting examples given.  Questions Please hold until 'Question Breaks' Please hold until 'Question Breaks'  Knowledge: Advanced GroupWise 7 Advanced GroupWise 7 OES Linux/NetWare OES Linux/NetWare  Related Sessions: Consultant's Corner: GroupWise Redesign Consultant's Corner: GroupWise Redesign Success with Clustering GroupWise Success with Clustering GroupWise

5. Advisor.com GWIA, Best Practices  Design Best Practices Its own domain Its own domain 2 GWIA's 2 GWIA's  Highly Available  Fault Tolerant Special Purpose GWIA's Special Purpose GWIA's  POP3/IMAP  Internal ONLY The Border The Border  2 Points of Entry  AntiSpam/AntiVirus Appliance - GWGuardian  DNS

6. Advisor.com GWIA, Best Practices  Settings Best Practices Description -Provide Detail Network Address -HTTP Port and TCP Port Bind Exclusively Logging  'Logs' directory under the Domain Directory  Verbose Please Gateway Administrator Gateway Alias -Migrate them if possible

7. Advisor.com GWIA, Best Practices  Settings Best Practice SMTP/MIME  Bind Exclusive  Mailbomb -Set/Not Set  Undeliverable Handling -Set/Not Set  Message Formatting -Flat Forward  Global Signature POP/IMAP Access Control -Default Class -LDAP/POP3/IMAP - On?  Allow Rule Generated Messages? Post Office Links -Client/Server with IP Address/DNS /HOME switch

8. Advisor.com GWIA, Best Practices  GroupWise| Network Address

9. Advisor.com GWIA, Best Practices  GroupWise| Gateway Alias

10. Advisor.com GWIA, Best Practices  SMTP/MIME| Settings

11. Advisor.com GWIA, Best Practices  SMTP/Mime| Message Formatting

12. Advisor.com GWIA, Best Practices  SMTP/MIME| Undeliverables

13. Advisor.com GWIA, Redundant/High Availability  An Example of Redundant GWIA Design

14. Advisor.com Planning, Question Break  Ask'em if you got'em!  ?

15. Advisor.com WebAccess, Best Practices  Design Best Practices  WebAccess Agent Its Own domain 250 to 500 users per Agent Disposable Gateway  2+ WebAccess Agents  Highly Available  Fault Tolerant  WebAccess Application Up to 1000 users 2 or more Highly Available Fault Tolerant  High Availability  Fault Resilient  Content Switches/DNS

16. Advisor.com WebAccess, Best Practices  Settings Best Practice -Agent Description -Provide Detail Network Address -HTTP Port and TCP Port Bind Exclusively Logging  'Logs' directory under the Domain Directory  Verbose Please Gateway Administrator WebAccess Maximum Threads Encryption Key -The key to redundancy for WebAccess WebPublisher -Install or Not Install? Default Class -Agent Timeout Post Office Links -Client/Server with IP Address/DNS /HOME switch /LogDiskOn switch

17. Advisor.com WebAccess, Best Practices  Settings Best Practice -Document Viewer Agent No eDirectory Object -MUST use gwdva.dva configuration file /IP /Port /addrspacename-{wa1dva} /maxworkers-10 -”suggested” Logging -can be set here -only if needed /http -To turn on the HTTP monitor port /httpPort -got to have a port number! /httpuser -need a user /httppw -and a password /temp -good as it is -but if you want you can point it elsewhere

18. Advisor.com WebAccess, Best Practices  Settings Best Practice -Application Store in eDirectory Container -NOT a GW Domain GroupWiseProvider Object  Add All Agents for full redundancy  Busy Search Time out GroupWiseWebAccess Object  Where the configuration file is  The Upload Path  Log Settings -Normal ok..but Verbose for Trouble  Timeout for Inactive Sessions  Change Password?  Open Attachments in Native or HTML format? Webacc.cfg  # Application Administration Tool  # Invoked on the URL  # (e.g. http:// /gw/webacc?action=Admin.Open) ‏  Admin.WebConsole.enable=true  Admin.WebConsole.username=gwadmin  Admin.WebConsole.password=novell

19. Advisor.com WebAccess, Best Practices  WebAccess Agent Settings

20. Advisor.com WebAccess, Best Practices  WebAccess Agent Default Class

21. Advisor.com WebAccess, Best Practices  WebAccess Agent Post Office Links

22. Advisor.com WebAccess, Best Practices  WebAccess Agent Network Address

23. Advisor.com WebAccess, Best Practices  WebAccess Application -GroupWiseWebAccess Object

24. Advisor.com WebAccess, Best Practices  WebAccess Application -GroupWiseWebAccess Object

25. Advisor.com WebAccess, Best Practices  WebAccess Application -GroupWiseWebAccess Object

26. Advisor.com WebAccess, Redundant/High Availability  WebAccess Application -GroupWiseProvider Object

27. Advisor.com WebAccess, Redundant/High Availability  WebAccess Highly Available Design

28. Advisor.com Planning, Question Break  Ask'em if you got'em!  ?

29. Advisor.com Exchange Gateway, Best Practices  Best Practices Install on the Exchange Server -does not have to be the 'main' mailbox server Must Install the Addressing Components on all Exchange Servers with mailboxes for proper sync Install into its own GroupWise Domain (EXCHDOM) -my name for it.  EXCHDOM should run on the Exchange server local to its EXCHGATE -The Exchange Gateway  You need the Novell Client AND ConsoleOne on the Exchange server -easiest way to manage it. Active Directory with full administrator to the local servers -again easiest eDirectory -Use an Admin equivalent -easiest. “Interact with Desktop” for MTA Screen -does not work for Exchange Gateway screen  Must set a “Run As” or in Startup as an application for the 'screen'.

30. Advisor.com Exchange Gateway, Best Practices  Exchange Gateway -Run As

31. Advisor.com Exchange Gateway, Best Practices  Exchange Gateway -Optional Gateway Settings

32. Advisor.com Exchange Gateway, Best Practices  Exchange Gateway -Screen

33. Advisor.com Summary  Business Analysis  What can you afford?  What can you do for 'free'?  Audit the GroupWise System  Adjust settings for optimal performance  Plan, Plan, Plan  Document, Document, Document  Training  Hire the Expertise

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