Contents Check Problem

Question

Hi,
Not sure if anyone is able to assist but I am unable to run a Contents Check on one of my PO's - typically it's a PO that I could really do with checking mailbox sizes for. When I generate the check in Console One and set my e-mail address as the CC I just never get anything (nor does the administrator account) and if I ever try a standalone check using GWCheck after a couple of days of running the application hangs!
Basically I need to check the accounts on that PO to see if any are failing to archive for any reason, so checking the mailbox size is the easiest way to do this.
Are there any other ways to check this other than logging into each of the 278 accounts currently on the PO?
Thanks in advance
Mike

Answer 1

Matthew
That is really helpful information for me, I didn't know any of that
before - I guess like a lot of people I ended up supporting our Groupwise
messaging system as everyone else saw it as a "poison chalice" and didn't
want to touch it - so all I have learnt so far has been on the job! I find
it very interesting though :-)
I can see from the last .ckl file that the check is still running through
one of the Message databases. A dumb question now but if I want to get the
details off the PO of user account sizes I assume when I run the Contents
check I select both the User and Message databases? Or can I just select the
User database? I have a rough idea of how messages are stored for users etc.
Kind regards
Mike
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> Hi Mike
>
> Does the contents check actually start to run on the POA when you kick
> if off via ConsoleOne? Sometimes the ngwcheck.db in the post office gets
> screwed and doesn't accept new jobs.
>
> I usually just delete/rename the file and try to launch a new GWCheck
> job. You'll be able to see if it's running by a long standing file queue
> on the POA screen. Once the contents check has gone through all the
> OFFILES folders it will then spawn the individual user checks and you'll
> see a whole heap of file queues on the POA. If you check in the folder
> path-to-po\wpcsout\chk\ you'll see a .ckl file with a current (or very
> recent) date/timestamp. If you copy this elsewhere (you won't be able to
> open it directly) and open it in Note/Wordpad you'll see how far it's
> got through the process.
>
> Our contents checks on one huge post office take up to 5 days to run on
> the server. The majority of the time is in the first part of the process
> when it's going through the millions of files in OFFILES, checking the
> ckl file will give you an idea of where it's at.
>
> Like you're experiencing if we try a standalone job it always
> crashes...
>
> Matthew
>
>
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