How to Successfully Cluster GroupWise Gregg A. Hinchman Consultant, Hinchman Consulting Ed Hanley Senior Consultant, Novell Inc.

© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 2 Introduction, Presentation Business Speaker: Gregg A. Hinchman  Self-Employed Consultant  9+ years experience with GroupWise  3 years expertise with clustering GroupWise  Co-Author: “Success with Clustering GroupWise” “Success with GroupWise Document Management”

© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 3 Introduction, Presentation Business Ed Hanley  Novell Consulting - Senior Consultant  12+ years experience with GroupWise  4 years expertise with clustering GroupWise  Contributing technical Author: “Success with Clustering GroupWise” “Novell’s GroupWise 6.5 Administrator’s Guide” “Novell’s Guide to SANs and Cluster Services” Speaker:

© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 4 Questions: Hold Questions for “Question Breaks”, Please. Introduction, Presentation Business Recommended Knowledge:  Basic Clustering Knowledge  Advanced Knowledge of GroupWise 6.5  Knowledge of NetWare 6.0 Topic: We will discuss and demostrate how to cluster GroupWise and all its components (i.e. POA, MTA)

© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 5 Introduction, Presentation Outline I. Introduction  Presentation Business  Cluster Planning for GroupWise II. Cluster a Domain  Planning  Demostration III. Cluster a Post Office IV. Cluster GWIA V. Cluster WebAccess VI. Summary

© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 6 Introduction, Cluster Planning ConsoleOne versus NetWare Remote Manager  All configurations in one simple interface  Easy to work with and familiar  Response time for changes slower  Relies upon snap-ins for communication to servers  Expected to be “end of life” within next year ConsoleOne:  “Talks” directly with the server (no snap in communication)  No “snap ins” required  Manage from any browser  Interface is not as familiar  Because of “refresh” takes a bit longer to work with NetWare Remote Manager:

© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 7 Introduction, Cluster Planning Planning the GroupWise Cluster GroupWise Health Naming standards IP address and PORT standards GroupWise NLM Placement Cluster Load/Unload Scripts NCF files Protected Memory Failover GroupWise Cluster “Help Sheet” (Design Matrix)

© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 8 Our Demonstration Cluster and GroupWise System: 2 Node VMWare Cluster 1 Primary Domain (PMDOM) 1 Post Office Domain (PODOM) 1 GWIA Domain (IADOM) 1 WebAccess Domain (WADOM) 1 Post Office ( PO) 1 GWIA (GWIA) 1 WebAccess Agent (WA) 1 Apache/Tomcat Web Server/WebAccess Application Introduction, Cluster Planning

© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 9 Our Demo GroupWise System DEMO Groupwise System Design Primary Domain Post Office Domain Internet Agent Domain WebAccess Domain PMDOM WADOM PODOMIADOM PO Resource s Distribution Lists Users GWIA WA KEY Direct Connection *All Connections TCP/IP

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© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 11 Cluster Domain, Planning Planning: Cluster Resource (Virtual Server and Volume) IP Address (/ip) Ports Directories (/home and /log) MTA Configuration Switches Cluster Resource Load Script Cluster Resource Unload Script

© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 12 Demonstration: MTA Configuration File Loading the MTA Loading the MTA in Protected Memory Building GWUP and GWDN NCF files Setting the Cluster Resource Load/Unload Scripts Setting the Cluster Resource Failover Testing Failover of the GroupWise Domain Cluster Domain, Demostration

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© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 14 Planning : Cluster Resource (Virtual Server and Volume) IP Address (/ip) Ports Directories (/home and /log) POA Configuration Switches Cluster Resource Load Script Cluster Resource Unload Script Cluster a Post Office, Planning

© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 15 Demonstration: POA Configuration File Loading the POA Loading the POA in Protected Memory Building GWUP and GWDN NCF files Setting the Cluster Resource Load/Unload Scripts Setting the Cluster Resource Failover Testing Failover of the GroupWise Post Office Cluster a Post Office, Demonstration

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© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 17 Clustering GWIA, Planning Planning: Cluster Resource (Virtual Server and Volume) IP Address ([X] Bind the IP Address) Ports Directories (/home and /log) Cluster Resource Load Script Cluster Resource Unload Script GWIA

© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 18 Cluster GWIA, Demonstration Demonstration: GWIA Configuration and GWIA.CFG Loading the GWIA Loading the GWIA in Protected Memory Building GWUP and GWDN NCF files Setting the Cluster Resource Load/Unload Scripts Setting the Cluster Resource Failover Testing Failover of the GWIA GWIA

© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 19 Cluster WebAccess, Planning Planning: Cluster Resource (Virtual Server and Volume) IP Address (/ip) Ports Directories (/home and /log) Cluster Resource Load Script Cluster Resource Unload Script Apache/Tomcat – On SYS – On SAN WebAccess Application

© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 20 Cluster WebAccess, Demonstration Demonstration: Clustering WebAccess Agent ONLY Agent Configuration and GWINTER.CFG Loading the Agent Loading the Agent in Protected Memory Building GWUP and GWDN NCF files Setting the Cluster Resource Load/Unload Scripts Setting the Cluster Resource Failover Testing Failover of the Agent

© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 21 Demonstration: Cluster WebAccess Application Install WebAccess Application Cluster Apache/Tomcat: GWAPACHE.CONF TOMCAT33.NCF TOMCAT33STOP.NCF NWSERVER.XML WEB.XML NWWORKERS.PROPERTIES Cluster WebAccess, Demonstration

© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 22 Demonstration: Loading Apache/Tomcat in Protected Memory Building WEBUP and WEBDN NCF files Setting the Cluster Resource Load/Unload Scripts Setting the Cluster Resource Failover Testing Failover of Apache/Tomcat and WebAccess Application Cluster WebAccess, Demonstration

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© February 4, 2004 Novell Inc. 24 Summary Best Practices Plan, Plan, Plan, Document, Document, Document The more nodes the better Set Standards Service Packs Healthy GroupWise system Tips and Tricks LOCNLM32 Install NLM’s on the cluster resource NSSSTART.CFG in c:\nwserver Cluster Load Script formula Not everything must failover, not every component must be in the cluster

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